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Teofilo Garcia (born March 27, 1941) [1] is a Filipino hatter who is regarded as a National Living Treasure in the Philippines for making tabungaw hats, a type of Ilocano headwear. Background [ edit ]
The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas. The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in United States history.
Kumi African Nation Organization, generally referred to as 415 or Kumi 415 is a predominantly African-American prison gang that was originally formed in Folsom State Prison in the mid-1980s, and the founding members were mainly from the San Francisco Bay Area.
The New York State prison system had its beginnings in 1797 with a single prison called Newgate located in New York City. A second state prison opened 20 years later in Auburn in 1817, and in 1825 a group of Auburn prisoners made the voyage across the Erie Canal and down the Hudson River to begin building Sing Sing in the village of Ossining ...
A Fresno judge described a Madera woman’s crimes against a 13-year-old girl as “evil” and “repugnant” on Monday as he sentenced her to life in prison without parole.. Sandra Garcia, 48 ...
WASHINGTON — Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier was released from prison on Tuesday morning, ending his nearly 50 years of incarceration after the U.S. government lied, threatened ...
After the Civil War ended, Huntsville Unit was the only prison in the former Confederate States of America to remain. [5] Perkinson stated that the prison became, within the state, the "first racially integrated public institution". [7] Originally women in the Texas Prison System were housed in the Huntsville Unit. [9]
A 2022 Star-Telegram investigation found that the prison has long been plagued with systemic sexual abuse and cover-ups. A federal report, based on data from 2014 to 2018, found that Carswell had ...