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Preferred term

Prisons  

Definition

  • Use for places of confinement and correction for adults run by municipal, state, or federal authorities; developed since the 18th c.

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Correctional facilities, prisons
  • Correctional institutions, prisons
  • Federal penitentiaries
  • Guardhouses, jails
  • Houses of correction, prisons
  • Jails
  • Penal institutions, prisons
  • Penitentiaries
  • State penitentiaries

Notation

  • 116378

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-SWZQ77RR-H

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