What was the name and location of the first prison built in the United States?
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Walnut street jail in Philadelphia?\nhttp://history.sandiego.edu/gen/soc/prison.html
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Prisons used for punishment are a relatively new phenomenon, dating back less than 150 years. Mass incarceration in the U.S. is an even newer phenomenon dating back less than 30 years. When societies evolve, they change their means of social control. Not so long ago, it became unacceptable for society to put its citizens in stocks, or publicly dunk them in water, brand them or to burn them alive. Confinement as a form of punishment was an evolved step, and now it is time to move on to more evolved methods of dealing with social problems before we normalize not only incarceration but obscenely high levels of incarceration. \n\nOne of Alabama's largest farming operations is run by the state prison system - July 26, 2003 - Inmates raise crops and catfish and tend livestock, generating about $2 million in revenue last year for running prisons and paying salaries. The inmates are paid 25 cents an hour. \n\nAmerican's Current Assessment of Crime and Punishment - September 22, 2002 - This site contains some very good graphs about American's current assessment of crime and punishment.  The results of the survey are surprising. \n\nACLU POLL - September 22, 2002 - New Poll Shows Surprisingly Forgiving Attitude Toward Crime and Punishment: Most Americans Don't Want to Throw Away the Key. \n\nBad Investment - Take it from a businessman: The War on Drugs is just money down the drain. Governor Gary Johnson: "Locking up more and more people ... whose real problem is that they are addicted to drugs, is simply a waste of money." \n\nBreeding Violence - Locking people up is supposed to make our streets safer, but it may be doing the opposite. \n\nCALFORNIA DOC RESTITUTION 15 DAY RE-NOTICE - March 7, 2003 - Here is a review of the files received from the CA DOC on this issue. \n\nCHILDREN OF PRISONERS IN THE USA - May 5, 2003 - This is The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) and it operates the Resource Center in collaboration with NIC and with CWLA's partners, the American Correctional Association (ACA) and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD).  On this site they relate that Nationwide, more than 2 million children have a parent incarcerated in state and federal prisons and local jails. Many more have experienced a parent's incarceration at some point in their lives. Since 1991, the number of children with parents in prison has increased by more than 50%. Most of these children have an incarcerated father, but a growing number-currently 8%-have incarcerated mothers. \n\nThe Corrections Connection News Center -  August 2002 - Reflections on the Crime Decline: \nLessons for the Future? \n\nCorrectional Health Care Consultants - CHCC is the one to contact for all health care and correctional related services. From providing health care to inmates, to introducing products and services to the corrections market, CHCC gets the job done for you. \nCriminal Justice Links - Criminal Justice Information - Major Agencies \n\nCriminal Injustice: Mainstreaming Torture - August 18, 2002 - On Sunday, August 18, 2002, Brian Steels <bsteels@iinet.net.au> wrote:  The following article shows where we are at with punitive regimes ... indeed, it is time to not only abolish prison as we know it, but to put a stop to the production of such weapons of personal harm.  As violence begets violence, we can only work towards peaceful resolutions and repair damage done. There has to be public awareness of such technologies that are \nbrutal in extreme. \n\nBrian Steels \nPerth, Western Australia\nDebt to Society - Click on a state to see how much its incarceration rate has grown, how its spending on prisons and higher education has changed, what proportion of its prisoners are drug offenders, and the racial disparity between its general and prison populations. \nEasterling Prison - Clio, Alabama \n\nSubheadings: \n- No Smoking Program \n- Scare Program \n- Warden's photo\nEDUCATE YOURSELF ON EXECUTIONS \nHUMAN
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The first was in California.
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In Maryland:\n\nFounding of the town of Springfield\n    [5F02] As early as 1649, the Maryland town of Sprynge-Fielde was inhabited by obvious ancestors of the people of Springfield, the Flanders and the Simpsons.\n\n    [3F13] In 1796, a fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the bible. Their destination, New Sodom. [4F03] Marge says these pioneers were circus freaks.\n\n        * Jebediah: "People, our search is over. On this site we shall build a new town, where we can worship freely, govern justly, and grow vast fields of hemp for making rope and blankets."\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "yes, and marry our cousins."\n        * Jebediah: "What are you talking about Shelbyville? Why would we want to marry our cousins?"\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "Cause they're so attractive. I thought that was the whole point of this journey."\n        * Jebediah: "Absolutely not."\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "I tell you I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins."\n        * Jebediah: "Well then, we'll form our own town. Who will come and live a life devoted to chastity, abstinence, and a flavorless mush I call rootmarm?" \n\n    [2F22] The town of Springfield was born on that day. And to mark that sweet moment, our people planted this lemon tree. Lemons being the sweetest fruit available at the time. [4F15] In 1797, the town charter was created;\n\n        * [9F10] "...as chief constable, ye shall receive one pig every month and two comely lasses of virtue true."
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You can go online and look up your state's prisons exactaly like that . it will give you a list and you just follow the directions . trust me been there. if you still need help let me know and i could probably walk you thur it. it is pretty much easy\n\nGood Luck
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Because it has the coolest 'cooler' (prison) in the world [Stateville Correctional Center - Joliet Prison] - where some of the world's toughest criminals have cooled [some still are !] their heels !
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Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia
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In 1915, John Talap, a convicted murderer from Montgomery County, was the first person executed in the chair. On April 2, 1962, Elmo Lee Smith, another convicted murderer from Montgomery County, was the last of 350 people, including two women, to die in the Pennsylvania electric chair. \n\nExecutions in Pennsylvania were carried out by hanging from the time the first colonists arrived in the late 1600s. In 1834, Pennsylvania became the first state in the union to abolish public hangings; and, for the next eight decades, each county was responsible for carrying out its own "private hangings" within the walls of its county jail. The responsibility for executing capital cases passed to the state in 1913 when the electric chair took the place of the gallows. \n\nThe location of the chair selected by the state legislature was the new Western Penitentiary in Centre County, now known as the State Correctional Institution at Rockview. Although capital punishment by electrocution was authorized by legislation in 1913, neither the chair nor the institution were ready for occupancy until 1915. \n\nFrom 1915 until 1962, there were a total of 350 persons executed in the chair, two of whom were women. The last person to be so executed was Elmo Smith, a Montgomery County case tried on a change of venue in Gettysburg, Adams County. Smith was executed on April 2, 1962, for the rape/slaying of a seventeen-year old girl. Coincidentally, the first person executed in the chair
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state corrections facility.
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What State? If you add that information to your question, I can help more.\nThis link will help you find information for a Federal facility\nhttp://www.bop.gov/ If he's in a State Prison, do a search that looks like this, except without the quotation marks....\n"Yourstate corrections prison visitor"\n\nIf that doesn't help, go to appropriate state forum at http://www.prisontalk.com\nGood luck!
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i am not aware of any websites however there is a prison museum in huntsville, texas and they have lots of interesting information.
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http://orangecounty.citysearch.com/search?x=0&y=0&search_select=on&init_search=1&context=directory&miles=50&pre_geo_id2=&request_market_only=&query=Correctional%20Facilities&constrained=on&pre_csz=&pre_geo_id1=&store_where_for_comparison=&started=1&hotelAttraction=&sort=dist\nThere's a link to a CitySearch of all the correctional facilities in Orange County
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William Penn  founded the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the British North American colony that became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The democratic principles that he set forth in the Pennsylvania Frame of Government served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution. Ahead of his time, Penn also published a plan for a United States of Europe, "European Dyet, Parliament or Estates. Before moving to America, Penn owned ironworks in the Kent village of Hawkhurst.
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I believe there is a correctional facility there.
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a prison cell?\ndont ask!!!
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you mean when the state started?  check out any history site for american history or check out the university in connecticut for info
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yeah, my dad is an electrician who worked there. he said the only ppl he saw there were shackled and accompanied by guards. i dont know what constitutes a "prison" technically, but i'm pretty damn sure that if you're there, you're not having a good time. for a LONG time.