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The United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg (USP Lewisburg) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Pennsylvania. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum-security male offenders. USP Lewisburg is located in Kelly Township, Pennsylvania, near Lewisburg.〔"(USP Lewisburg Contact Information )." Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved on February 11, 2013. "USP LEWISBURG U.S. PENITENTIARY 2400 ROBERT F. MILLER DRIVE LEWISBURG, PA 17837"〕〔"(BAS12M34211939136_000.pdf )." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on February 11, 2013.〕〔"(BAS12M34211939136_002.pdf )." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on February 11, 2013.〕 It is in the central Pennsylvania region, west of Philadelphia and north of Washington, DC. ==History== Initially named North Eastern Penitentiary, USP Lewisburg was one of four federal prisons to open in 1932.〔("New Prisons" ) ''Popular Science'', August 1932, pages 16 & 17 for drawings〕 USP Lewisburg had a prison riot in November 1995. Although started by only 10 prisoners, more than 20 visited the hospital that November 1, with one prisoner recording multiple broken bones and missing teeth. Many were sentenced to the "hole" and over 400 were transferred. This incident thrust the Penitentiary into the national spotlight, where it gained much of its current notoriety. A local non-profit group, the Lewisburg Prison Project, assists prisoners here and in the surrounding area with issues of conditions of confinement.〔(Lewisburg Prison Project ).〕 USP Lewisburg was the focus of the 1991 Academy Award nominated documentary ''Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House'' by filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond. The one hour long film described conditions inside the prison and focused specifically on the abolition of parole within the federal system and the fears held by many prisoners about re-integrating into society upon their eventual release from prison.〔(Doing Time: Life Inside The Big House (1991) ).〕 As of 2009, USP Lewisburg was designated as a Special Management Unit intended to house the most violent and disruptive inmates in the Bureau of Prisons. Although most USP Lewisburg inmates are housed in the SMU, there remains a work cadre of approximately 200 inmates in the USP's general population. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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