List of United States state prisons

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See also: list of U.S. federal prisons and list of U.S. military prisons

For more details on prisons in other countries, see list of prisons.

This is a list of U.S. State prisons (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories):

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia

Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland

Massachusetts[1] Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey

New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina

South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

[edit] External links

• U.S. Department of Justice: Prison and Parole Information
• Directory of Historic Prisons of the United States of America & Canada

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Officially, these are "correctional facilities," the term "state prison" being reserved for the facility at Cedar Junction in Walpole.