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  Pages in the History of Elmira | Civil War Prison Camp: Hellmira
The prison camp consisted of a 30-acre plot of ground surrounded by a twelve foot wall with a rampart near its top and on the outside of the wall.
The Confederate soldiers soon renamed Elmira's prison camp "Hellmira." It was said to have been the worst prison camp in the North.
Of the 12,123 prisoners assigned to the camp, 2,963 died in all.
www.ci.elmira.ny.us /history/prison_camp.html   (454 words)

  
 Camp Chase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The camp's state volunteers and the camp commander were found to have "scant acquaintance" with military practice and were transferred, the camp passing into Federal government control.
Prisoners were allowed limited amounts of money to supplement supplies with purchases from approved vendors and sutlers, the latter further restricted when they were discovered to be smuggling liquor to the inmates.
Some parolees, assigned to guard duty at Federal prison camps, were bitter, and rumors increased of maltreatment of prisoners at Camp Chase and elsewhere.
www.civilwarhome.com /campchase.htm   (416 words)

  
 Camp Douglas
Prisoners from Fort Donelson arrived at Camp Douglas in February, 1862, and within one year the monthly mortality rate was at ten percent, a rate unsurpassed by any other prison in the North or South.
Three traits distinguished Camp Douglas from other Northern prison camps: high mortality rates, extreme acts of cruelty, and a low official count of prisoners who died compared to documentation from other sources Historical articles and research texts have publicized these facts, but somehow Camp Douglas has escaped the notoriety of Andersonville.
A prisoner swore that when the men who were being punished this way attempted to sit on their coattails they were cruelly kicked in the back by the guards and forced to sit longer on their bare bones.
www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/2757/issues/camp.htm   (2319 words)

  
 Bush’s prison camp
In Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Camp X-Ray, later replaced by Camp Delta, is where the Bush administration has sent foreign soldiers captured in the "war on terror." It was supposed to house the worst of the worst--hardened terrorists and al-Qaeda operatives.
Prisoners who the military deems "uncooperative" are allowed exercise and a shower just twice a week--despite the fact that temperatures in the cells can reach more than 100 degrees.
While the conditions at Camp Delta are brutal enough, even more horrible is the desperation felt by detainees who have no rights at all--whether to lawyers, to a trial, or even to contact their families.
www.socialistworker.org /2004-1/482/482_05_CampDelta.shtml   (1267 words)

  
 Rock Island, the island, History: Confederate Prison Camp
Prisoner’s food rations were cut after June of 1864 due to the treatment of Union prisoners at Andersonville, Georgia.
The last two prisoners were released from the prison hospital in July 1865.” (Slattery 15) There were 41 recorded successful escapes from the prison.
McClanahan is buried in the Confederate Cemetery in grave #1584.
www.mvr.usace.army.mil /rockislandhistory/Prison.htm   (1140 words)

  
 The Salisbury North Carolina Confederate Civil War Prison & National Cemetery
Early on, the prison was not such a bad place to be.
Prisons made it know that being there was like being on a college campus.
Although Gee's stay at the prison was a short stay, he was the only commandant indicted and tried for alleged mistreatment of the prisoners.
www.salisburyprison.com   (1629 words)

  
 Child in Prison Camp, A - Literature Guide - MSN Encarta
Although she was actually 14 when the Canadian government uprooted her family during World War II, in A Child in Prison Camp she makes herself two years younger because she 'felt younger' and 'seemed so helpless' at the time.
Her four brothers were separated from the family and sent to another camp, and Joseph, her younger brother, eventually joined the Canadian Army and served in India.
Along with her parents and sister, Takashima was sent to a relocation camp near New Denver, 700 miles from Vancouver.
encarta.msn.com /sidebar_701711944/Child_in_Prison_Camp_A.html   (224 words)

  
 Point Lookout, Md., Prison Camp Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A prison camp for Confederate prisoners of war was built at Point Lookout, Md., on the tip of the peninsula where the Potomac River joins Chesapeake Bay.
Prisoners, who lived sixteen or more to a tent, were subjected to habitually short rations and limited fire wood in winter, and when the coffee ration was suspended for federal prisoners at Andersonville, the Point Lookout prisoner lost theirs as well.
Among the prisoners' correspondence are several letters discussing family hardships, bewilderment at arrest (for civilian prisoners), or simple expressions of exhaustion and a desire to find a way out of the war.
www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Schoff/NP/Point.html   (789 words)

  
 Elmira Prison Camp (Civil War) History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
When the greatest number of prisoners were confined in the camp, and popular apprehension, ignorant of what that was in reality, more than tripled it, there were frequent disturbing rumors that the enemy were again approaching and for the purpose of liberating the prisoners and adding them to their own forces.
The occupations of the prisoners during their confinement were as various as were the tastes of the men themselves, and such as they themselves chose, their only duty daily attendance upon morning and evening roll-call with here and there willing ones detailed to bake or cook or care for the grounds.
The plentiful supply for the prison camp is further testified to by the fact that there were large savings from the rations allowed by the government after the prisoners had had all they needed.
www.rootsweb.com /~nychemun/prison.htm   (4881 words)

  
 [PRISONACT] U.S. prison camp may get death row
From: Rick Halperin June 2 USA: U.S. prison camp may get death row The Pentagon is taking final steps for military tribunals of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay preparations that include contingency planning for executions, according to the top U.S. military official at the prison camp in Cuba.
Geneva Convention: Judicial proceedings Judicial proceedings: No prisoner of war may be convicted without having had an opportunity to present his defense and the assistance of a qualified advocate or counsel.
With the Guantanamo Bay prison tag still on his wrist, Aghan Haji Faiz Mohammad talks to journalists at a military hospital in Kabul Oct. 29 after his release from the United States prison in Cuba.
www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2003-June/007529.html   (1794 words)

  
 Camp Ford-From Training Camp to Prison
Period scene of Camp Ford, the picket stockade, and the crude hillside huts that served as houses.
During the final years of its short-lived existence, Camp Ford took on a more orderly appearance, what one prisoner described as resembling "a very young prairie town." Streets were laid out and lined with log structures, a parade ground was cleared, and a market place under a pine-bough arbor was established.
Camp Ford, shown in a period drawing of its later years, when houses lined the streets and a market area was constructed.
www.texasbeyondhistory.net /ford/prison.html   (1100 words)

  
 Civil War Prison Point Lookout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A federal prison camp for Confederates was built on Point Lookout, Maryland, at the extreme tip of St. Mary's County, on the barren peninsula where the Potomac River joins Chesapeake Bay.
The camp was convenient to the battlefields in the East and therefore became the largest Union prison.
According to the picture, there were two camps: one larger camp entitled "rebel camp", and a smaller enclosure roughly 1/3 in size entitled "camp for rebel officers." The original is approx.
home.jam.rr.com /rjcourt52/cwprisons/lookoutn.htm   (660 words)

  
 Korean musical casts light on prison camps - The Boston Globe
According to a group run by a prominent defector, many North Korean prisoners are forced to toil for over 15 hours a day, survive on just 12-17 ounces of corn and salt, and die from malnutrition, pneumonia, or tuberculosis.
Jung said he began writing the musical when he heard his father was beaten to death in public at a prison camp in 2001 for his son's work in South Korea on movie scripts and plays critical of North Korea's leadership.
Jung said he was sentenced in 1994 to 13 years in prison for listening to South Korean radio broadcasts, but the truck moving him to a prison overturned and he managed to escape, making his way to South Korea via China.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/03/07/korean_musical_casts_light_on_prison_camps   (706 words)

  
 SCI-Camp Hill /90409/   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The state prison at Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania is the crowning jewel of the Commonwealth's prison system.
The prison faithfully reflects the viciousness of Mr.
It is a testament to extremism and repression; a regression to a former age of pointless brutality.
www.prisoners.com /camphell.html   (436 words)

  
 Camp Ford, Tyler, Texas - 48 OVVI
Duganne's descriptions of camp life are written in an elaborate style, typical of the 19th century, and provide a rich and detailed glimpse of the Camp Ford experienced by the men of the 48th OVVI.
The prisoners were taken to Tyler, arriving in early May, 1864, less than a month after the 48th OVVI joined the prisoners at Camp Ford.
The oldest prisoners in the Confederacy are in this camp.
www.48ovvi.org /oh48cf.html   (1856 words)

  
 My Haunting Prison Visit /11030/
Of course, the truth is that by enduring the abuse, younger prisoners (18 to 35) hope to obtain early release from prison.
The boot camp is supposedly military style "training." The men are harangued, badgered and drilled with marching and similar adolescent nonsense.
Cells in the boot camp section are segregated from the general prison population partly because the other prisoners make fun of the "cadets." The inmates are allowed no possessions on their little tables except religious materials.
www.prisoners.com /chreport.html   (1483 words)

  
 Andersonville Prison Camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The construction of the prison began in December of 1863.
Arriving in late December of 1863, Captain Winder designed the prison that encircle roughly 16.5 acres which he felt was large enough to hold 10,000 prisoners.
The prison was to be rectangular in shape with a small creek flowing roughly through the center of the compound.
www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /98_99/CW/andersonville/intro.htm   (277 words)

  
 Phillip Adams calls a "Concentration Camp" a "Concentration Camp"
But there were also letters from survivors of Hitler's death camps who endorsed my use of the term and messages of support from Jews whose sympathy for the plight of the Afghan refugees derives from having spent years in an Australian concentration camp — a camp for Jews.
While the lines blur between jails, prisons, detention camps, re-education camps, prisoner-of-war camps and other internment centres, a concentration camp is different because the people therein tend not to be criminals.
Such camps are built not for individual offenders but for any category of people who are judged to be dangerous or extraneous to society.
www.country-liberal-party.com /pages/refugees.e.htm   (876 words)

  
 CNN.com - CNN tours Gitmo prison camp - Jul 6, 2005
It came as the U.S. military scrambles to counter allegations that prisoners at the camp have been mistreated and their Islamic faith mocked by American interrogators.
CNN employees who visited the prison were not allowed to speak to the prisoners, but an inmate who knew reporters were present shouted, in English, "Bush terrorist.
Prisoners in those conditions sometimes urinated or defecated on themselves, the agent reported.
www.cnn.com /2005/US/07/06/gitmo.tour/index.html   (782 words)

  
 DOC Operations Division South Fork Forest Camp
The cabins in use at the camp today are of wood construction, all are fully plumbed, have showers and forced-air gas heat.
The road which runs along the front of the camp was the old stage coach road which ran from Forest Grove to Tillamook.
South Fork Forest Camp was selected due to it's natural surroundings, the availability of a natural water source and the availability of 24 hour-a-day maintenance by the inmate work crew.
www.oregon.gov /DOC/OPS/PRISON/sffc.shtml   (982 words)

  
 City of Salisbury, North Carolina - Salisbury Confederate Prison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The only Confederate Prison that was located in North Carolina was in the town of Salisbury.
The prison was established on November 2, 1861.
This is a "Birds Eye View" of the Salisbury Prison Compound.
www.salisburync.gov /prison/1.html   (133 words)

  
 Koje-do Prison POW Camp - Korean War Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Please contact me if you are, know or knew a guard, prisoner, or other person connected to the prison camps on Koje, Pongam or Cheju and would like to contribute.
On 16 October 1952, the 165th was reassigned to the Korean Communication Zone and relocated to Mosulpo, Korea, another prisoner of war (POW) facility on the island of Cheju, Korea.
Camps actually in Tong Nae beyond Hialiah Circle on the road to Taegu on the right back of a large silk mill where the troops bathed in the big silk vats of hot water.
www.koreanwar.org /html/units/kojedo.htm   (2271 words)

  
 No.22 Prison Labor Camp, Hoeryong, DPRK
The camps are not surrounded by walls, but reportedly, the prison camps encompass areas as large as Washington DC.
There is speculation as to the exact numbers of prisoners being held in these facilities, but it is believed to number in the hundred thousands.
The prisoners are fed a diet of corn powder, cabbage leafs, and salt.
www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/dprk/dprk-hoeryong-camp.htm   (364 words)

  
 Federal Prison Camps - HOME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This site is intended to inform and educate the reader on the realities involved with incarceration at a minimum security, federal prison camp.
For me, facing prison sort of felt like the world was coming to a halt, and for one specific purpose; letting me off.
Prison Camps Resource - My unyielding state of denial eventually broke like a fever and I was able to see the dreadful realization that lay before me.
www.federalprisoncamps.com   (283 words)

  
 Elmira Prison Camp
It was also said that the prisoners were starved, robbed and were made to drink foul water from a frog pond.
The prison camp consisted of thirty-five wooden buildings that were each one hundred feet long, and sixteen feet wide, and high enough for two rows of bunk-beds.
On July 15 a trainload of prisoners, that was bound for Elmira, was wrecked.
www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /99_00/CW/tmj/tmj1.htm   (941 words)

  
 Civil War prison camp on Arsenal -- From Progress '98 January 22, 1998
They were the first prisoners of war incarcerated on the 12-acre Confederate prison camp on the northern side of the island.
Before the camp closed 20 months later, 1,964 prisoners died and were buried in the cemetery on Rodman Avenue.
Malnutrition contributed to the scurvy deaths of at least 12 prisoners, and while it remained a problem, the subsequent drop in the death rate belied rumors of starvation.
www.qconline.com /progress98/places/prfedcem.html   (804 words)

  
 Goldsboro News-Argus | News: Federal Prison Camp will be empty sometime this April
The Federal Prison Camp at Seymour Johnson will be empty by the first week in April, said Rodney Tabron, prison spokesman.
Meanwhile, the inmate population at FPC Seymour Johnson is dwindling.
When the prison closes, the jobs that had been performed by inmates will have to be done by others.
www.newsargus.com /news/archives/2005/12/16/federal_prison_camp_will_be_empty_sometime_this_april/index.shtml   (628 words)

  
 Club Gulag tourists are offered prison camp experience
His idea, which has upset survivors of the prison camp, envisages recreating a tiny part of the Gulag complete with watchtowers, guards armed with paintball guns, snarling dogs, rolls of barbed wire, spartan living conditions - and forced labour.
Camp survivors, some of whom still live in Vorkuta, have condemned his idea.
Historians say 200,000 prisoners, known as zeks, died in the camps surrounding Vorkuta, out of more than two million deported there between 1932 and 1954.
www.prisonplanet.com /articles/August2006/050806Gulag.htm   (607 words)

  
 NPR : Musical Tackles Life in North Korean Prison Camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A prisoner sings a song about how he ended up at Yodok: his penchant for rock 'n' roll.
The father is accused of being a South Korean and American spy, and the whole family is sent to Yodok prison camp.
Director Jung says his father was stoned to death in a prison camp, and that motivated him to press ahead with this musical.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5281517   (829 words)

  
 HM Prison Service - Locate a Prison - Camp Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Prison information alt i, advice and support alt s, careers and jobs alt n, news alt n, resource centre alt r, about the service alt a Skip to main page content
Camp Hill was built in 1912 using prisoner labour from HMP Parkhurst and opened by Winston Churchill.
It lies adjacent to HMP Albany and Parkhurst on the outskirts of Newport, Isle of Wight and is a Category C Training prison.
www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk /prisoninformation/locateaprison/prison.asp?id=299,15,2,15,299,0   (258 words)

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