Alacatraz Prison

The impact of these events led to many changes in the penal system, including the establishment of the Ohio parole board in 1931. The Ohio State Penitentiary was built in 1834 and was designed to hold a maximum of 1,500 inmates. The prison was known for its poor conditions and being constantly overcrowded. In April of 1930 construction crews were working on the expansion of the prison to resolve this overcrowding issue.

The prison first public library in the territory. Empty cells provided free lodging for hobos. Many convicts learned to read and write. In the year 1907 the prison was full,there was no space on the hill for development. The last inmate left the prison on Sep 15,1909.

“LockDown” is the short story of a man, named Evan Hopkins, and his time spent during his prison sentence. Hopkins received 16 years in prison for armed robbery and spent his sentence at Nottoway Correctional Center in Virginia. Hopkins describes the prison in great detail down to how it operates on a lockdown, hence the name of the story. In the period of the lockdown, prison guards checked for contraband hidden in cells, or in possession of the inmates. Most of the lockouts last for a week, but this one was due to a botched escape attempt.

The Yuma Territorial Prison On July 1, 1876, the first seven prisoners were moved into the Yuma Territorial Prison and every day the prison was still under construction for another 33 years. The budget the prison could not pass was $25,000. The prison was based off a contest that was manufactured on making the prison. The prison was located Prison Hill Road in the historic part of Yuma, not far away from Yuma Crossing-Quartermaster Depot.

On April 21st, 1930, Ohio State Penitentiary, which was built in Ohio’s capital, Columbus, in 1834, caught fire and killed hundreds of inmates. When returning for the night, they discovered that a fire was started within cell blocks G and H. It was only after the fire had been doused, that everyone had realized that the scaffolding, on the outside walls of those cell blocks, was what had caught fire. At the time, the prison was known for its poor conditions. The prison was only meant to hold 1,500 people, but at the time of the fire, it was housing 4,300 inmates. This disaster goes down in history as the worst fire at any prison in the United States.

During the war there was an agreement with the government to put in a three million dollar installation of an Axis Conscientious Objectors Camp (a camp for pacifist religious groups) right outside Atlanta but it turned into a POW camp instead. Camp Atlanta opened on November 29, 1943, which was the only time the public was allowed to enter the camp. After the POW camp was built, people around the area were told to never leave their keys in their cars and to always bring in their clothes that were hanging on the clothes line. Also the camp only had twenty-eight original camp

It housed some of America 's most dangerous felons from 1899 through 1947. Those dangerous felons included, Robert “Birdman of Alcatraz” Stroud from 1890 through 1963. That is seventy-three years of being stuck at a prison, crazy right? After quite some years the prison was shut down due to the operating costs being out of this world expensive. After

In 1934 Alcatraz federal prison opens, the first inmates were the worst military ones. My goal of this paper is to tell you more about Alcatraz. According to bop.gov, Alcatraz had a lot of inmates try to escape, there were 14 separate escape attempts some of them included more than one person, 23 men were caught, six were shot

Topic: Prison overcrowding General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech, the audience will be able to identify and describe the key reasons and issues of prison overcrowding. Introduction Attention Getter Imagine being locked up in a confined space with little to no air conditioning, concrete walls, concrete floors, poor sanitation, rowdy peers, no soft comforts of a home, and a lack of the everyday basic needs.

History of prisons- Why were they created? What is their purpose? What are we doing to actually reform them? a) Who has jail helped? Most inmates seen repeatedly coming in and out of jail?

The city of Yuma, Arizona is not a city that catches tourists eyes a lot, but every once in a while it does and one of the reasons people notice Yuma is because of the Yuma Territorial Prison. The Yuma Territorial Prison has been through thick and thin and is still standing today, a century and a half later(Murphy 1). The prison is no longer functioning, but it still manages to lure people in, not by breaking the law, but by its historical significance. The prison is unique in design and the impact it has had not just in Yuma, but in Arizona as a whole. The Yuma Territorial Prison today, as a museum, allows people to examine the design of the prison and how it reflects the time and place it was built, the negative effects the prison has caused

Private Prisons Many people in America have no idea that there are different types of prison systems. The two different types of prisons include state-ran and private. State-ran prisons are prisons owned and operated by the local, state, or federal government; however, private prisons are prisons in which individuals are incarcerated by a third-party organization that is under contract with a government agency. Private prisons are funded by the government and have the unique ability to do whatever they want.

Prisons in the 1840s were tough and gross. The crime rate went from 5,000 a year in 1800 to 20,000 in 1840. The punishments could be execution or they could be sent to Australia, America, or Tasmania. During the 1940s, prisons were nasty and unhealthy.

The Year 1909, is when the prison was closed down for all prisoners and workers. In 1878 was the first female convicted and sent to prison at the Yuma Territorial. In 1881 was when the Reservoir was constructed. The prison was the first area in Yuma to have running water,Electricity,and Bathrooms/Toilets.

Luxuries For Prisoners? Prison: A secure place where somebody is confined as punishment for a crime. What does society think of when they hear the word “prison”? Unfortunately, prison is far more luxurious than people would think.