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  2. Eastern State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern State Penitentiary ( ESP) is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [6] It is located in the Fairmount section of the city, and was operational from 1829 until 1971. The penitentiary refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration, first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail, which emphasized principles of ...

  3. Holmesburg Prison - Wikipedia

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    Holmesburg Prison. Coordinates: 40.037123°N 75.018779°W. Holmesburg Prison seen from the air. Holmesburg Prison, given the nickname "The Terrordome," [1] was a prison operated by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Prisons (PDP) from 1896 to 1995. The facility is located at 8215 Torresdale Ave in the ...

  4. Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .phila .gov. Philadelphia County is the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the 24th-most populous county in the nation. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 1,603,797. [1] Its county seat is Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-largest city. The county is part of the Southeast Pennsylvania region of the state.

  5. Philadelphia Prison System - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia Prison System. Coordinates: 40.030904°N 75.018084°W. The Philadelphia Department of Prisons is operated by the city of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. The facilities are located on State Road in Northeast Philadelphia. Shawn Hawes is the public spokesperson for the Philadelphia Prison System. [1]

  6. Moyamensing Prison - Wikipedia

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    Moyamensing Prison was a prison in Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.It was designed by Thomas Ustick Walter.Its cornerstone was laid on April 2, 1832; it opened on October 19, 1835, was in use until 1963, and was demolished in 1968.

  7. Philadelphia House of Correction - Wikipedia

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    The Philadelphia House of Correction is one of five local prisons operated by the Philadelphia Prison System. It is located at 8001 State Road in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia . The facility was built in 1874 and rebuilt in 1927. Originally it was designed to the same pattern as the now-disused Eastern State Penitentiary ...

  8. Walnut Street Prison - Wikipedia

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    Walnut Street Prison was a city jail and penitentiary house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1790 to 1838. Legislation calling for establishment of the jail was passed in 1773 to relieve overcrowding in the High Street Jail; the first prisoners were admitted in 1776. [1]

  9. George W. Hill Correctional Facility - Wikipedia

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    George W. Hill Correctional Facility is a county jail and prison located in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in the townships of Thornbury and Concord. [1] [2] It has a Thornton postal address, [3] and is within the Philadelphia metropolitan area . Founded in 1998, the jail was previously managed and operated by Boca Raton, Florida 's GEO Group ...