Incarceration
The Negro Boys Industrial School Fire (1959)
The Negro Boys Industrial School Fire, also known as the Wrightsville Fire, occurred on March 5, 1959, at the Negro...
Wardell H. Henderson (1920-1948)
On January 23, 1948, 27-year-old Wardell Heath Henderson was executed in the Oregon State Penitentiary gas chamber for the 1945...
Unit 29: Writings from Parchman Prison: Stories Seldom Told
Mississippi State Penitentiary, or Parchman Prison, has long influenced the Mississippi cultural landscape, functioning as a literary setting in many...
Operation Hammer (1987-1990)
Operation Hammer, a law enforcement program by the Los Angeles Police Department that began in 1987 was ostensibly an attempt...
Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville (1849- )
The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, the hometown of Sam Houston, was established in 1849. It is also referred to...
Louisiana State Prison, Angola (1880- )
The Louisiana State Penitentiary nicknamed the “Alcatraz of the South” is the largest maximum security prison in the country. Six thousand,...
Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman (1901 – )
Mississippi State Penitentiary is less than an hour drive from where Emmett Till was murdered. One of three state prisons...
Attica Prison Riot (1971)
The Attica prison riot took place at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York on September 13, 1971. This conflict would...
George Jackson (1941-1971)
Author George Jackson is best known for his memoir Soledad Brother, containing the letters that he wrote from prison between...
