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Newgate prison  

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  • Newgate Prison was authorized by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1773 to utilize incarceration as a punishment for crime, the same year that construction began on the more famous Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia. All male offenders who were not under sentence for a capital crime were to be imprisoned at Newgate. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; Newgate Prison]

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