prisons

     

A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which inividuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Prisons are conventionally institutions, which form part of the criminal justice system of a country, such that imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime.

Trivia about prisons

  • In 1980 these held 329,000 Americans; in 1997, 1.24 million
  • In 1992 Vermont became the first state to ban smoking in these places; it's not even allowed out in "the yard"

Tweets about prisons

  • RT @momen_mubasher: An Israeli settler with a rifle is legal & common. Cooking knife with a Palestinian, that's years in Israeli Prisons ht…
  • RT @snpsnpsnp: "I didn’t believe that a concentration camp could exist in America until, in Phoenix, AZ, I saw one w/ my own eyes."
  • RT @Asher_P_Fly: 118 Terrorists Freed From British Prisons Over the Past 3 Yrs via@BreitbartNews And they R more pi…
  • RT @Rajaiabukhalil: An Israeli settler with a rifle is legal & common. Cooking knife with a Palestinian, that's years in Israeli Prisons ht…
  • RT @rabbleca: "Prisons do succeed at one thing: hiding human suffering from view." Via @MainlanderNews
  • 15 Most Violent Prisons on Earth
  • Prisons and Jail visitation in my mind so help me God......OCJ here I come not as an inmate but as a…
  • "@vicenews "No Banks or Private Equity Firms are Losing Sleep at Night Because Prisoners Might be Getting Raped.”
  • Crime rates in Phoenix are still higher than the US average Yet "America's Toughest Sheriff "keeps getting elected
  • I Went Undercover in America's Toughest Prison | VICE via @VICE
  • "Prisons do succeed at one thing: hiding human suffering from view." Via @MainlanderNews
  • To Stop ISIS in Indonesia, Target the Young and Reform Prisons #indonesia #asia
  • RT @CovingtonQ: An Ex-Con Takes Aim at Multibillion-Dollar Private Prisons https://t.co/RQ2ZOuTiq0 via @vicenews
  • I Went Undercover in America's Toughest Prison | VICE -