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Auburn Correctional Facility  

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  • Auburn Penitentiary, which gave its name to the “Auburn system” of imprisonment that influenced penal regimes throughout America and the world, opened in Auburn, New York, in 1819. Today, it is one of the 71 state prisons in New York. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; Auburn Correctional Facility]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-Q2311B87-6

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