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  2. Panopticon - Wikipedia

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    This plan of Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison was drawn by Willey Reveley in 1791.. The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century.

  3. George Michael - Wikipedia

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    George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer-songwriter and record producer. Regarded as a pop culture icon , [ 2 ] he was known as a creative force in songwriting, [ 3 ] vocal performance, [ 4 ] and visual presentation.

  4. Prison - Wikipedia

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    A 19th-century jail room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer, is a facility where people are imprisoned under the authority of the state, usually as punishment for various crimes.

  5. History of United States prison systems - Wikipedia

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    The "Old Gaol [Jail]" in Barnstable, Massachusetts, built in 1690 and operated until 1820, is today the oldest wooden jail in the United States of America. The jail was built in 1690 by order of Plimouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony Courts. Used as a jail from 1690–1820; at one time moved and attached to the Constable's home.

  6. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    1831: Michael Faraday invents a method of electromagnetic induction. It would be independently invented by Joseph Henry the following year. Faraday is credited with inventing the first electric generator called the Faraday disk. 1834: Moritz von Jacobi invents the first practical electric motor.

  7. Corrections - Wikipedia

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    Qur'anic education for offenders at the Central Jail Faisalabad in Faisalabad, Pakistan In criminal justice , particularly in North America , correction , corrections , and correctional , are umbrella terms describing a variety of functions typically carried out by government agencies , and involving the punishment , treatment , and supervision ...

  8. List of prison escapes - Wikipedia

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    On 6 July 2023, Michael Burnham escaped from a prison in Warren County, Pennsylvania he was later captured when a local dog sniffed him out in the woods in Warren County, Pennsylvania. [ 75 ] At around 8:30 am on 31 August 2023, convicted murderer Danilo Cavalcante escaped Chester County Prison by chimneying up to the roof of the building. [ 76 ]

  9. Newgate Prison - Wikipedia

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    Michael Barrett was the last man to be hanged in public outside Newgate Prison (and the last person to be publicly executed in Great Britain) on 26 May 1868. [20] From 1868, public executions were discontinued and executions were carried out on gallows inside Newgate, initially using the same mobile gallows in the Chapel Yard, but later in a ...