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The Pennsylvania system established in Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia was more expensive to operate but had loftier goals.

Caging the crazy: "supermax" confinement under attack

Of particular interest in this study are the chapters that explore the growth of the penitentiary in the new republic against the backdrop of slavery.

The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America

In addition, the interdepartmental working group conducted awareness raising campaign with employees of the probation department of the State Penitentiary Service on the issues of transferring functions of the current department to the Ministry of Justice.

Interdepartmental working group on probation issues visits Osh, Jalal-Abad and Batken regions

"In 2011, leadership of the State Penitentiary Service sent to the Government proposals on the urgent need to eliminate the penal settlements.

State Penitentiary Service offers to eliminate penal settlements again

Andreasyan said that he paid a visit to Nubarashen penitentiary with the UK Ambassador to Armenia Katherine Leach.

Ombudsman of Armenia: Prisoners have to sleep in turn due to prison overcrowding

Dale Duplechain, CCO, corrections master sergeant, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola

ACA congratulates newly certified and recertified professionals

The current National Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service evolved from the Superintendency of Prisons and Correctional Establishments, created in 1924, which became the Directorate for the Inspection of Prisons in 1931.

Development of the Argentine Penitentiary Policy -- Part 2: History of Argentine Corrections

Prison officials clearly had the upper hand, but their attempts to administer penitentiary discipline met with prisoners' continual efforts to thwart or evade their designs.

History from the inside out: prison life in nineteenth-century Massachusetts

Released from this penitentiary five years ago with a college degree, he had become project director at Washington D.C.'s Center on juvenile and Criminal Justice, heading up a program for troubled youth.

It's our Christian duty to educate prisoners

Special virtual storefronts started functioning in penitentiary institutions of several regions of Kazakhstan for inmates, Sputnik Kazakhstan reports.