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Ruins of Chacabuco. Chacabuco is one of the many abandoned nitrate or "saltpeter" towns ("oficinas salitreras" in Spanish) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. [1] Other nitrate towns of the Atacama Desert include Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works.
The dark prison is the informal name used by some Guantanamo Bay detainees for a secret prison in which they claim they were detained near Kabul, Afghanistan. [9] This is now identified with the Salt Pit. [6] According to an article distributed by Reuters, eight Guantanamo detainees have described the conditions they were held under in "the ...
The seal of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the agency that manages U.S. federal prisons. The Federal Bureau of Prisons classifies prisons into seven categories: United States penitentiaries; Federal correctional institutions; Private correctional institutions; Federal prison camps; Administrative facilities; Federal correctional complexes [1]
The Georgia Department of Corrections operates prisons, transitional centers, probation detention centers, and substance use disorder treatment facilities. In addition, state inmates are also housed at private and county correctional facilities.
This is a list of detention facilities holding illegal immigrants in the United States.The United States maintains the largest illegal immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and ...
Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with a sharp, salty, bitter taste and the chemical formula K N O 3.It is a potassium salt of nitric acid.This salt consists of potassium cations K + and nitrate anions NO − 3, and is therefore an alkali metal nitrate.
Opened July 11, 2018, replacing the adjoining State Correctional Institution – Graterford, which had been Pennsylvania's largest prison. Graterford opened in 1929 and worked with Eastern State Penitentiary until its closing in 1970.
Aerial view of United States Penitentiary Victorville. USP Victorville is 630,000 square feet (59,000 m 2) and is designed to house 960 male inmates in six housing units.. Six V-shaped buildings (units 1–3 on east side, units 4–6 on west side) facing each other and a larger maintenance building surround a central yard with a tower in the mid