1. Top 10 Most Notorious Prisons in the U.S.
According to newsone.com
ADX Florence Facility
San Quentin State Prison
Location: Florence, Colorado
Size: 490
The United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility is a supermax prison for men. It is unofficially known as ADX. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It houses prisoners who are deemed the most dangerous and in need of the tightest control of all the prisoners within the U.S. Federal Prison System. #1
Location: Marin County, California
Size: 3,302
California’s only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, is located at the prison. It has a gas chamber, but since 1996, executions at the prison have been carried out by lethal injection. It opened in July 1852 and is the oldest prison in the state. #2
Sing, Sing
United States Penitentiary Atlanta
Location: Ossining, New York
Size: 1,700
Ossining’s original name, “Sing Sing”, came from the Native American Sinck Sinck tribe from whom the land was purchased in Sing Sing was the third prison built by New York State and there are plans to convert the original 1825 cell block into a museum. #3
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Size: 2,000
A medium security prison for males in Atlanta, Georgia, USP it is primarily used as a transfer prison. As of 2006 the prison was housing 3-5 in-transit prsoners in each approximately 56-square-foot isolation cell for up to eight weeks at a time. #4
Attica Correctional Facility
Folsom State Prison #5
Location: Attica, New York
Size: 2,150
This supermax penitentiary now holds many inmates who are serving various types of sentences (short-term to life), and who are usually sent to the facility because of disciplinary problems in other facilities. In 1971, the prison had a riot which resulted in 39 deaths after 10 guards were taken hostage.
Location: Folsom, California
Size: 1,813
Folsom State Prison opened in 1880 and is the second-oldest prison in the state of California. It was also the first in the country to have electricity. Folsom was one of the first maximum security prisons. It’s most known for having two concerts at its facility by musician Johnny Cash in the late 1960s. #6
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
Louisiana State Penitentiary #7
Location: Leavenworth, Kansas
Size: 2,000
Leavenworth is more than just the prison that Michael Vick served his dogfighting sentence in. The prison is an all male, medium-security facility committed to carrying out the judements of the Federal Courts.
Location: Angola, Louisiana
Size: 5,000
It is the largest maximum security prison in the U.S. holding 5,000 offenders with 2,000 officers watching over them. The State of Louisiana’s death row for men and the state execution chamber are there. The 18,000 acre complex was once a slave plantation. #8
Rikers Island
United States Penitentiary Marion
Location: Queens, New York
Size: 14,000
Rikers Island is New York City’s main jail complex. It consists of ten jails and close to 12,000 inmates with 8,000 officers monitoring them. The jail mostly holds local offenders, those who couldn’t post bail, and anyone serving a sentence of one year or less or waiting for a transfer. #9
Location: Marion, Illinois
Size: 1,000
The U.S. Penitentiary opened in 1963 and in 15 years became the United States highest control security prison. It became the nation’s first control unit when violence forced a long-term lockdown.
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written by NewsOne Staff
Allison Jordan
MCOM 441
Dec. 9, 2016