WikiProject Correction and Detention Facilities

Shortcut	WP:Prisons
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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Please see the talk page for ongoing discussions.

The assessment template can now be found at Template:WikiProject Correction and Detention Facilities. By typing {{WikiProject Correction and Detention Facilities}} on the talk page you get:

	Correction and Detention Facilities (defunct)
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Correction and Detention Facilities, a project which is currently considered to be defunct.Correction and Detention FacilitiesWikipedia:WikiProject Correction and Detention FacilitiesTemplate:WikiProject Correction and Detention FacilitiesCorrection and Detention Facilities

Here's how the assessment's going so far:

Requested moves

• 03 Feb 2025 – Terrorism Confinement Center (talk ·  · hist) is requested to be moved to Cecot by Abo Yemen (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 04 May 2023 – Kolyma (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by Andro Keshelashvili (t · c); see discussion
• 03 May 2023 – Pendleton Correctional Facility (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by GrahminRadarin (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Mar 2023 – Ukraine prison ministries (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by Wracking (t · c); see discussion

The template to use in article space for prisons is Template:Infobox prison.