A prison cemetery is a graveyard reserved for the dead bodies of prisoners. Generally, the remains of inmates who are not claimed by family or friends are interred in prison cemeteries[1] and include convicts executed for capital crimes.[2]
List of prison cemeteries
edit- United States
- Florida
- Union Correctional Institution, Raiford
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Point Lookout Cemetery and Point Lookout II, Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola), West Feliciana Parish[4]
- One cemetery at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, St. Gabriel[4]
- Mississippi
- Two cemeteries, Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman), Sunflower County, Mississippi[5]
- South Carolina
- State Cemetery, a.k.a. Penitentiary Cemetery (nicknamed "Tickleberry"), Central Correctional Institution (Columbia), Richland County, South Carolina[6]
- Texas
- Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery, Huntsville (the unclaimed remains of inmates who were executed for capital murder are buried here, but the cemetery also includes the remains of non-executed inmates)
- One cemetery, Clemens Unit, Brazoria County, Texas[7]
- Imperial State Farm Cemetery, Central Unit, Sugar Land[8]
- Gatesville State School, Gatesville[9]
- Florida
References
edit- ^ Bryant, Clifton D. Handbook of Death & Dying, Volume 1. Sage, 2003. 500. Retrieved from Google Books on March 1, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7619-2514-9.
- ^ Nelson's Encyclopedia. Volume IV. March 1927. 329. Retrieved from Google Books on March 1, 2011.
- ^ "A Brief History of Idaho and the Old Idaho Penitentiary". Behind Gray Walls (Podcast). Idaho State Historical Society. July 1, 2019. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
- ^ a b "Photo Album Archived 2010-10-23 at the Wayback Machine." (Alternate link Archived 2010-10-15 at the Wayback Machine) Louisiana State Penitentiary. Retrieved on July 20, 2010.
- ^ "Bowers May Be Interred at Parchman Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine." (Archive) WTOK-TV. November 7, 2006. Retrieved on March 4, 2011.
- ^ Trinkley, Michael; Hacker, Debi (February 2009). The Penitentiary Cemetery, Columbia, South Carolina (PDF). Chicora Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
- ^ Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Turner Publishing Company, 2004. 62. ISBN 978-1-56311-964-4.
- ^ Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Turner Publishing Company, 2004. 61. ISBN 978-1-56311-964-4.
- ^ "Hilltop warden, employees work to restore facility’s former glory Archived 2011-02-20 at the Wayback Machine." Texas Department of Criminal Justice. September–October 2005. Retrieved on July 24, 2010.
