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  2. California State Prison, Los Angeles County - Wikipedia

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    The only state prison located in the county, it is also referenced as Los Angeles County State Prison, CSP-Los Angeles County, and CSP-LAC. [2] [3] [4] Only occasionally is the prison referred to as Lancaster State Prison , which was particularly avoided in 1992 partly to ease the stigma for Lancaster.

  3. Talk:Lancaster, California - Wikipedia

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    It looks like the business bureau has written this description of Lancaster for Wikipedia. There needs to be mention of a few of the social ills Lancaster has. Which are many. There is a lot of gang activity. There is a lot of drug use. It may say on paper that a majority own their own homes, but a lot of these homes are rented out.

  4. Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC) is a maximum security prison in Lancaster, Massachusetts (though it receives mail through a post-office box in the town of Shirley ). It is operated by the Massachusetts Department of Correction. It is close to the medium-security prison Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley, which is ...

  5. Lancaster, California - Wikipedia

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    Lancaster was an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County until 1977, when it was incorporated as a city, with Arnold Rodio serving as its first mayor. [citation needed] Lancaster State Prison opened in 1993 and before that Los Angeles County hosted no prisons but accounted for forty percent of California's state-prison inmates. "

  6. Lancaster County Prison - Wikipedia

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    The Lancaster County Prison is a county prison located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is located on East King Street in Lancaster City. The prison was originally built in 1851 and renovated in 1972. The present medieval-style building replaced the earlier prisons in 1851, [1] with Fulton Hall, of the Fulton Opera House ...

  7. Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Cedar Junction

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    Superintendent Douglas DeMoura. The Massachusetts Correctional Institution—Cedar Junction (MCI-Cedar Junction), formerly known as MCI-Walpole, is a maximum security prison under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Department of Correction. It was opened in 1956 to replace Charlestown State Prison, the oldest prison in the nation at that time.

  8. Panopticon - Wikipedia

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    Panopticon. 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. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be ...

  9. Missouri executes convicted murderer despite prison staff's ...

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    He was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. local time at the state prison in Bonne Terre after a single-dose injection of the sedative pentobarbital, said Missouri Department of Corrections spokesperson ...