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Prison Act (with its variations) refers to legislation relating to prisons. The Prison Act 1995 The Prison (Escape) Act 1706 (1 Ann. c. 1) The Prison...

basis in the Penitentiary House, etc. Act 1812 (52 Geo. 3. c. 44). An architectural competition for a new prison building on the Millbank site attracted...

impose uniformity in the country but local prisons remained under the control of magistrates until the Prison Act 1877. The American separate system attracted...

The Prison Act 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 21) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that aimed to alter the way in...

Fleet Prison was a notorious London prison by the side of the River Fleet. The prison was built in 1197, was rebuilt several times, and was in use until...

The Prison Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2. c. 52) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act allows for the Secretary of State to make...

The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA) is the first United States federal law intended to deter the sexual assault of prisoners. The bill was...

The Gaol Act (4 Geo. 4. c. 64), sometimes called the Gaol Act 1823, the Gaols Act 1823, the Gaols, etc. (England) Act 1823, the Prison Act 1823, or the...

Prison sexuality (or prison sex or penitentiary sex) consists of sexual relationships between prisoners or between a prisoner and a prison employee or...

A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, big house, or...

established by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 on the recommendation of a committee of inquiry into the UK prison service under Justice May. The chief...

Superintendent of Prisons, a Department of Justice official in Washington, was nominally in charge of federal prisons. The passage of the "Three Prisons Act" in 1891...

Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, improve the effectiveness of a penal system, reduce recidivism or implement alternatives...

administration of prisons falls exclusively in the domain of the State Governments, and is governed by the Prisons Act, 1894 and the Prison Manuals of the...

English prisons, which had diminished to 13 and 5, respectively, in 1901. The use of treadwheels was abolished in Britain in 1902 by the Prison Act 1898...

other Länder the old Federal Prison Act will remain in force for the time being. The head offices for the state prison services are in the respective...

Offences Act (1997) Ombudsman Act (1980) Ombudsman for Children Act (2002) Organisation of Working Time Regulations (1998) Prison Act (1933) Prison Act (1956)...

The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e, is a U.S. federal law that was enacted in 1996. Congress enacted PLRA in response to a significant...

Prison Security Act 1992 (c. 25) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This section reads: (1) Any prisoner who takes part in a prison mutiny...

Crimes Act 1914). Section 120 of the Constitution of Australia provides that: Every State shall make provision for the detention in its prisons of persons...