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| | Prison Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | There are, also, many colloquial terms for prisons - such as big house, beantown, can, clink, joint, jug, cooler, hoosegow, lockup, lockdown and slammer—and imprisonment—doing time, bird, porridge, working for Copper John. |
 | | In Massachusetts, some jails are known as houses of correction. |
 | | Rwanda has the largest proportion of its population in prison where, as of 2002, over 100,000 people were held on suspicion of participation in the 1994 genocide. |
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