Thomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. Designed by U.S. Capi

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Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.

On July 1, 1895, under the direction of warden James French, the first federal prison was born. That same year, St. Louis architects Eames and Young went to wor