List of State Prisons, Penitentiaries, and Reformatories in the States and Territories

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Alabama—State prison, Wetumpka.

Penitentiary, Huntsville.

Arizona—Territorial prison, Yuma.

Arkansas—Penitentiary, Little Rock.

California—Prison, Folsom and San Quentin.

Colorado—Penitentiary, Canon City.

Connecticut—Prison, Wethersfield.

Reform school, Meriden.

Dakota—Penitentiary, Sioux Falls.

Delaware—No penitentiary; jails at Newcastle, Dover and Georgetown.

District of Columbia—No penitentiary; those sentenced are sent to a State penitentiary, which is designated by the Department of Justice of the United States.

Florida—Penitentiary, Chattahooche.

Georgia—Penitentiary, Atlanta.

Idaho—Prison, Boise City.

Illinois—Northern penitentiary, Joliet; Southern penitentiary, Chester.

Reform school, Pontiac.

Indiana—Prison. Michigan City and Jeffersonville; for women, Indianapolis.

Iowa—Penitentiaries at Fort Madison and Anamosa.

Kansas—Penitentiaries, Leavenworth and Lansing.

Reform school, North Topeka.

Kentucky—Penitentiary, Frankfort.

Louisiana—Penitentiary, Baton Rouge.

Maine—Prison, Thomaston.

Maryland—Penitentiary, Baltimore.

Massachusetts—Prison, Boston.

Penitentiary, Concord.

Reformatory, Warnerville.

Reformatory for women, Sherborne.

Michigan—Prison, Jackson.

Reform school, Lansing.

House of correction and reformation, Ionia.

Minnesota—Prison, Stillwater.

Mississippi—Prison, Jackson.

Missouri—Penitentiary, Jefferson City.

Montana—Penitentiary, Deer Lodge.

Nebraska—Penitentiary, Lincoln.

Reform school, Kearney.

New Mexico—Penitentiary, Santa Fé.

Nevada—Prison, Carson City.

New Hampshire—Prison, Concord.

New Jersey—Prison, Trenton; Essex county Penitentiary, Caldwell; Hudson county penitentiary, Jersey City.

New York—Prisons, Auburn, Dannemora and Sing Sing.

Reformatory, Elmira.

County penitentiaries—Albany county, Albany; Erie county, Buffalo; Kings county, Brooklyn; Monroe county, Rochester; New York county, New York City; Onondaga county, Syracuse; Catholic Protectory, West Farms.

Houses of refuge, Rochester and New York City. (All female prisoners are committed to the penitentiaries.)

North Carolina—Penitentiary, Raleigh.

Ohio—Penitentiary, Columbus.

Reform school, Lancaster.

Oregon—Penitentiary, Salem.

Pennsylvania—Eastern penitentiary, Philadelphia; Moyamensing penitentiary, Philadelphia; Western penitentiary, Allegheny City.

Rhode Island—Penitentiary, Cranston Print Works.

Reform school, Howard.

South Carolina—Penitentiary, Columbia.

Tennessee—Penitentiary, Nashville.

Texas—Penitentiaries, Huntsville and Rusk.

Utah—Penitentiary, Salt Lake City.

Vermont prison—Windsor.

Virginia—Penitentiary, Richmond.

Washington Territory— Penitentiaries, Olympia and McNeil’s Island.

W. Virginia—Penitentiary, Moundsville.

Wisconsin—Prison, Waupun.

Wyoming—Penitentiary, Laramie City.

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