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  2. 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.

  3. Holmesburg Prison - Wikipedia

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    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 Avenue in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia .

  4. Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia County is the most populous of the 67 counties of 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]

  5. Kermit Gosnell - Wikipedia

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    Gosnell was born on February 9, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the only child of a gas station operator and a government clerk. [21] [22] He was a student at the city's Central High School, from which he graduated in 1959.

  6. Chester County Prison - Wikipedia

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    Chester County Prison is a prison operated by Chester County, Pennsylvania, located in Pocopson Township, [2] with a West Chester, Pennsylvania postal address. It has the capacity to hold 1,100 inmates, both men and women, and as of June 30, 2023, has a population of 702.

  7. History of United States prison systems - Wikipedia

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    After 1790, those sentenced to hard labor in Pennsylvania were moved indoors to an inner block of solitary cells in Philadelphia's Walnut Street Jail. [99] New York began implementing solitary living quarters at New York City's Newgate Prison in 1796.

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