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| x Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island |
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Al Capone | Jan 6, 1939 | Nov 16, 1939 |
Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island (FCI Terminal Island) is a low-security prison for men located on Reservation Point on Terminal Island in Los Angeles. The other Federal prison in the Los Angeles area is the Metropolitan Detention...
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| Timothy Leary | 1974 | ||||
| G. Gordon Liddy | |||||
| Charles Manson | 1956 | 1959 | |||
| x Alcatraz Island |
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Al Capone | Jan 6, 1939 |
Alcatraz Island is an island located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California. Often referred to as The Rock, the small island early-on served as a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison,...
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| Robert Franklin Stroud | Dec 19, 1942 | Nov 21, 1963 | |||
| Morton Sobell | 1951 | 1969 | |||
| John Giles | |||||
| Floyd Hamilton | |||||
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| x Sing Sing |
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Charles Becker |
Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison in the Village of Ossining, Town of Ossining, New York, United States. It is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of New York City on the banks of the Hudson River. Ossining's...
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| Louis Capone | |||||
| Lucky Luciano | |||||
| Frank Abbandando | |||||
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| x Five Points Correctional Facility |
Five Points Correctional Facility is a maximum security men's prison located in Romulus, NY and operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services.
FPCF is the current (as of 9/2008) home of serial killer Lemuel Smith.
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| x Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility |
Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility is a minimum security prison in New York in the USA. The prison is located by the Village of Brocton in Chautauqua County, New York. The facility provides special treatment for non-violent offenders....
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| x Willard Drug Treatment Center |
Willard Drug Treatment Center is a specialized state prison in Seneca County, New York, USA. The prison focuses on treatment of drug-addicted convicts. Willard Drug Treatment Center is located in Willard, a community in the Town of Romulus, and is...
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| x Folsom State Prison |
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Charles Manson |
Folsom State Prison is a California State Prison located in the city of Folsom, California, 20 miles (32 km) from the state capital of Sacramento, California. Opened in 1880, Folsom is the second-oldest prison in the state of California after San...
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| Ralph 'Sonny' Barger | |||||
| Timothy Leary | |||||
| x Twin Towers Correctional Facility |
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The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex erected in Los Angeles, California to house inmates of the Los Angeles County Courts. It is the world’s largest jail. The facility is located at...
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| x Century Regional Detention Facility | Paris Hilton | Jun 5, 2007 | Jun 7, 2007 | ||
| x Hanoi Hilton |
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John McCain | Oct 26, 1967 | Mar 14, 1973 |
The Hoa Lo Prison (Vietnamese: Hỏa Lò), later known to American prisoners of war as the "Hanoi Hilton", was a prison used by the French colonists in Vietnam for political prisoners and later by North Vietnam for prisoners of war during the Vietnam...
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| x Tower of London |
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Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr |
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower), is a historic fortress and scheduled monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames. It is located...
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| Thomas More | Apr 17, 1535 | Jul 6, 1535 | |||
| Edward V of England | |||||
| Margaret of Anjou | |||||
| Johan Anders Jägerhorn | 1801 | ||||
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| x Newgate Prison |
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William Penn |
Newgate Prison was a prison in London, at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey just inside the City of London. It was originally located at the site of a gate in the Roman London Wall. The gate/prison was rebuilt in the 12th century, and...
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| Mary Wade | |||||
| Titus Oates | |||||
| Lord George Gordon | |||||
| Daniel Defoe | 1703 | 1703 | |||
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| x Bastille |
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Man in the Iron Mask | Nov 19, 1703 |
The Bastille was a fortress-prison in Paris, known formally as Bastille Saint-Antoine—Number 232, Rue Saint-Antoine—best known today because of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, which along with the Tennis Court Oath is considered the...
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| x Landsberg Prison |
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Adolf Hitler | Apr 1, 1924 | Dec 1924 |
Landsberg Prison is a penal facility located in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg.
The prison was used by Allied power during the...
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| x Stadelheim Prison |
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Adolf Hitler | Jun 24, 1922 | Jul 27, 1922 |
Stadelheim Prison, in Munich's Giesing district, is one of the largest prisons in Germany.
Founded in 1894 it was the site of many executions, particularly by fallbeil (guillotine) during the Nazi period.
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| Ernst Röhm | Jul 2, 1934 | ||||
| x Federal Medical Center, Carswell |
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Marion Jones | Mar 7, 2008 |
The Federal Medical Center (FMC) Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, is a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility that provides specialized medical and mental health services to female offenders. FMC Carswell is located in the northeast corner of Naval Air...
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| Lynette Fromme | Aug 14, 2009 8am | ||||
| x Presidio Modelo |
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Fidel Castro | 1955 |
The Presidio Modelo was a "model prison" of Panopticon design, built on the former Isla de Pinos (now the Isla de la Juventud) in Cuba.
The prison was built under the dictator Gerardo Machado in the period 1926–1931, and held 6000 prisoners.
Most of...
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| x Portlaoise Prison | Angelo Fusco |
Portlaoise Prison is a maximum security prison located in Portlaoise, Co. Laois, Ireland. It should not be confused with the Midlands Prison, which is a newer, medium security prison situated directly beside it.
The prison was built in the 1830s,...
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| Paul Magee | |||||
| Michael McKevitt | |||||
| x Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery | Charles Colson | Jun 21, 1974 | Jan 31, 1975 | ||
| John N. Mitchell | |||||
| x ADX Florence |
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Yu Kikumura | Apr 18, 2007 |
The United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) is a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, USA. It is unofficially known as ADX Florence, Florence ADMAX, Supermax, or The Alcatraz of the Rockies. It is operated by the federal...
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| José Padilla | |||||
| Theodore Kaczynski | |||||
| Ramzi Yousef | |||||
| John Walker Lindh | |||||
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| x United States Penitentiary, Marion |
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Pete Rose | Aug 8, 1990 | Jan 7, 1991 |
The United States Penitentiary is a former supermax prison, located in Marion, Illinois. It was built in 1963 to replace the Alcatraz prison in San Francisco, which closed the same year. According to Carl Sifakis, author of The Encyclopedia of...
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| John Gotti | 1940 | 2002 | |||
| Tom Manning | |||||
| Jonathan Pollard | |||||
| David Lane | |||||
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| x Alderson Federal Prison Camp |
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Martha Stewart | 2004 | 2005 |
Alderson Federal Prison Camp, also known as Federal Prison Camp, Alderson or FPC Alderson, is a federal prison in the United States for minimum-security female inmates. The prison is a prison camp with a population of around 1,050 and is located on...
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| Iva Toguri D'Aquino | 1949 | Jan 28, 1956 | |||
| Billie Holiday | 1947 | 1948 | |||
| Lynette Fromme | Dec 23, 1987 | ||||
| x California State Prison, Corcoran |
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Charles Manson |
California State Prison, Corcoran (COR) is a male-only state prison located in the city of Corcoran, in Kings County, California. Also known as Corcoran State Prison, CSP-C, CSP-COR, CSP-Corcoran, and Corcoran I, it should not be confused with the...
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| Dana Ewell | |||||
| Joe "Pegleg" Morgan | |||||
| Juan Vellejo Corona | |||||
| Mikhail Markhasev | |||||
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| x Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women | Marybeth Tinning |
Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women is a prison in Bedford Hills, Westchester County, New York, USA. It is the largest women's prison in New York State and has hosted many infamous prisoners. It is the only women's maximum security prison...
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| Remy Ma | |||||
| Sante Kimes | |||||
| Pamela Smart | |||||
| Carolyn Warmus | |||||
| x Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Framingham |
Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Framingham (MCI-Framingham} is the Massachusetts Department of Correction's institution for female offenders. It is located in Framingham, Massachusetts, a large town located midway between Worcester and...
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| x Nebraska Correctional Center for Women |
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Caril Ann Fugate | 1976 |
The Nebraska Correctional Center for Women (NCCW) is a state correctional facility for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Located just west of York, Nebraska, it is the only secure state facility to house adult women.
NCCW, began...
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| x Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women | Assata Shakur |
Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (formerly, the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women) is a prison facility for women of the state of New Jersey's Department of Corrections, located near Clinton, New Jersey in Union Township. Its...
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| x Coffee Creek Correctional Facility |
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Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is a women's prison and prisoner intake center in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. Operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections, the 1,684 bed facility opened in 2001 at a 108-acre (0.44 km) campus. The...
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| x Tamms Correctional Center |
The Tamms Correctional Center is a prison located in Alexander County, Illinois north of Tamms, Illinois. The prison has two sections, a 200-bed minimum security facility opened in 1995, and a 500-bed maximum security facility known as CMAX opened...
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| x Florida State Prison |
Florida State Prison (FSP), also known as Starke Prison (because of its proximity to Starke, Florida), formerly known as the Union Correctional Institution – East Unit, or the Raiford State Penitentiary is a correctional facility located in Starke,...
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| x Attica Correctional Facility |
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Mark David Chapman |
The Attica Correctional Facility is a penitentiary in Attica, New York.
It held many of the most dangerous criminals of the time when it was constructed in the 1930s. A tear gas system is installed in the mess hall and industry areas and has been...
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| David Gilbert | |||||
| Richard Bilello | |||||
| David Berkowitz | |||||
| Willie Sutton | |||||
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| x Rikers Island |
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Sid Vicious |
Rikers Island is New York City's jail facility, as well as the name of the 413.17-acre (1.672 km) island on which it sits, in the East River between Queens and the mainland Bronx, adjacent to the runways of LaGuardia Airport. The island itself is...
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| Plaxico Burress | |||||
| Mark David Chapman | |||||
| x Utah State Prison |
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Gary Gilmore |
Utah State Prison, or USP, is one of two prisons managed by the Utah Department of Corrections' Division of Institutional Operations. It is located in Draper, Utah, United States, about 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.
The prison was built to...
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| Ted Bundy | |||||
| Thomas Arthur Green | |||||
| x El Segundo Jail | Zsa Zsa Gábor | 1989 | 1989 | ||
| x Abu Ghraib prison |
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The Baghdad Central Prison, formerly known as Abu Ghraib prison (Arabic: سجن أبو غريب Sijn Abu Ghuraib; also Abu Ghurayb, meaning 'father of the raven' or 'Place of Ravens') is in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km (20 mi) west of Baghdad.
In 2001 the...
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| x Ofer Prison |
Ofer Prison (Hebrew: כלא עופר, Kele Ofer), formerly officially known as Incarceration Facility 385 (מתקן כליאה 385), is an Israeli incarceration facility (מתקן כליאה mitkan kli'a, abbr. Matak) located in the West Bank, between Ramallah/Beituniya...
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| x İmralı |
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Abdullah Öcalan |
İmralı is a small Turkish island located in the south of the Sea of Marmara, west of Armutlu-Bozburun peninsula within Bursa Province. It serves currently as a maximum-security prison island for its only inmate, Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the...
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| x McNiel Island | Robert Franklin Stroud | 1909 | Sep 5, 1912 | ||
| x United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth |
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Robert Franklin Stroud | Sep 5, 1912 | Dec 19, 1942 |
The United States Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth was the largest maximum security federal prison in the United States from 1903 until 2005. It became a medium security prison in 2005.
It is located in Leavenworth, Kansas. It is an all-male, medium...
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| Michael Vick | Dec 10, 2007 | May 20, 2009 | |||
| Thomas James Holden | Jul 7, 1932 | Nov 28, 1947 | |||
| Thomas James Holden | 1930 | ||||
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| x Sugamo Prison |
Sugamo Prison (Sugamo Kōchi-sho, Kyūjitai:巢鴨拘置所, Shinjitai:巣鴨拘置所) was located in the district of Ikebukuro, which is now part of the Toshima ward of Tokyo, Japan
Sugamo Prison was originally built in the 1920's for political prisoners, using the...
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| x Devil's Island |
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Devil's Island (French: Île du Diable) is the smallest and northernmost island of the three Îles du Salut located about 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) off the coast of French Guiana. It has an area of 14 ha (34.6 acres). It was a small part of the...
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| x San Cristóbal Island |
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San Cristóbal (Chatham) is the easternmost island in the Galápagos archipelago, and one of the oldest geologically.
Its Spanish (and official) name "San Cristóbal" comes from the Patron Saint of seafarers, "St. Christopher." Its older English name...
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| x Tarrafal camp |
Tarrafal (also known as Campo da Morte Lenta, the "Camp of the Slow Death") was a prison camp in Cape Verde, then a Portuguese colony, set up by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936), where...
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| x Belconnen Remand Centre |
Belconnen Remand Centre or BRC is an Australian remand custody facility located in Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory, Australia first opened in 1976. The centre at times holds a small number of illegal immigrants. Sentenced prisoners in the...
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| x Periodic Detention Centre |
The Symonston Periodic Detention Centre is a minimum security Australian prison located in Symonston, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. It was formerly the Quamby Children's Remand Centre.
The Quamby Youth Detention Centre originally opened...
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| x Serkadji prison |
Serkadji prison is a high-security prison in Algiers, Algeria; in 1995, about two-thirds of the 1,500 prisoners detained there have been accused or convicted of terrorism.
A prison mutiny took place between 21 and 23 February 1995 at Serkadji Prison...
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| x Drumheller Institution |
The Drumheller Institution is a medium-security prison operated in Drumheller, Alberta by the Correctional Service of Canada. It was opened in 1967, and also includes a 72-bed minimum-security facility. As of 6 April, 2004, the maximum security...
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| x Qincheng Prison | Bo Yibo |
Qincheng Prison (秦城监狱) is a maximum-security prison located in the Changping District northwest of Beijing in the People's Republic of China. The prison was built in 1958 with aid from the Soviet Union and it is the only prison belonging to the...
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| Israel Epstein | |||||
| Choekyi Gyaltsen | 1964 | 1977 | |||
| Phuntsok Wangyal | |||||
| Peng Zhen | 1929 | 1935 | |||
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| x Stanley Prison |
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Stanley Prison (赤柱監獄 c. January 1937, previously known as Hong Kong Prison) is one of the five maximum security prisons in Hong Kong, China and is currently the oldest institution still in service (the oldest prison built in Hong Kong was Victoria...
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| x Victoria Prison |
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Victoria Prison (traditional Chinese: 域多利監獄), or Victoria Gaol was Hong Kong's first prison. A testimony to the evolution of Hong Kong's correctional services, it had been the centre of the local prison system until it ceased operation in December...
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| x Château d'If |
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Abbé Faria |
The Château d'If is a fortress (later a prison) located on the island of If, the smallest island in the Frioul Archipelago situated in the Mediterranean Sea about a mile offshore in the Bay of Marseille in southeastern France. It is famous for being...
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| Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau | |||||
| Michel Mathieu Lecointe-Puyraveau | |||||
| x Bagne of Toulon |
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The bagne of Toulon was the notorious prison in Toulon, France, made famous as the place of imprisonment of Jean Valjean, the hero of Les Miserables, the novel by Victor Hugo. The Bagne was opened in 1748 and closed in 1873.
The bagne was created by...
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| x Clairvaux Prison |
Clairvaux Prison is a high-security prison in France, on the site of the former Clairvaux Abbey.
In this prison in 1971, convicts Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems took Nicole Comte, a nurse, and Guy Girardot, a prison guard, hostage, and Buffet...
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| x Fleury-Mérogis Prison | |||||
| x Fresnes Prison |
Fresnes Prison (Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes) is the second largest prison in France, located in the town of Fresnes, Val-de-Marne near the city of Paris. It comprises a large men's jail (maison d'arrêt) of about 1200 cells, a smaller one for...
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| x La Santé Prison |
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La Santé Prison (French: Maison d'arrêt de la Santé or Paris - La Santé) is a prison located in the XIVe arrondissement of Paris, France. It is one of the most famous prisons in France, with both VIP and high-security districts.
La Santé is one of...
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| x Sultanahmet Jail |
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Sultanahmet Jail (Turkish: Sultanahmet Cezaevi), a former prison in Istanbul, Turkey, is now the luxury Four Seasons Hotel at Sultanahmet. It is located in Sultanahmet neighborhood of Eminönü district on the historical peninsula.
Built in 1918/1919,...
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| x Lubyanka |
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn |
The Lubyanka (Cyrillic: Лубянка) is the popular name for the headquarters of the KGB and affiliated prison on Lubyanka Square in Moscow. It is a large building with a facade of yellow brick, designed by Alexander V. Ivanov in 1897 and augmented by...
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| x Lefortovo prison |
Lefortovo prison is a prison in Moscow, Russia, since 2005 in the command of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. It was constructed in 1881. It was named after the Lefortovo District of Moscow where it is located, which in turn took its name from...
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| x Bangkwang |
Bang Kwang Central Prison (Thai: บางขวาง) is a men's prison in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand, located at the Chao Phraya River about 7 miles north of Bangkok.
The prison houses many foreign prisoners. It is a hash prison which handles death row and...
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