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WikiProject Correction and Detention Facilities

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Categories	WikiProject Correction and Detention Facilities, Prisons
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Has goals?	Yes

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Create and improve articles for individual jails, prisons, and detention facilities.
• Create and improve articles dealing with the treatment of prisoners.
• Create and improve articles about such facilities' effects on prisoner recidivism.

• All articles related to the field of corrections and penology.

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Categories for discussion

• 01 Mar 2024 – Category:Fictional prison escapees (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 26 Mar 2024 – German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 10 Apr 2024 – Capital punishment in New York (state) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Capital punishment in New York by Robertsky (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Apr 2024 – Capital punishment (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Death penalty by Wikiexplorationandhelping (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 01 Sep 2023 – Treblinka extermination camp (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
• 04 May 2023 – Kolyma (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Andro Keshelashvili (t · c); see discussion
• 03 May 2023 – Pendleton Correctional Facility (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by GrahminRadarin (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Mar 2023 – Ukraine prison ministries (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Wracking (t · c); see discussion
• 20 Aug 2022 – Political prisoner (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion

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