After numerous altercations with the law, he found himself in and out of state penitentiaries, including a one year sentence for assaulting an undercover police officer.

On Friday, hours after the violence was brought under control, a caravan of buses left the prison under heavy guard, taking 960 of its 2,600 inmates to five other crowded state penitentiaries.

He also wants at least six new state penitentiaries ($480 million).

In an 87-page opinion, Judge Sweet said lack of good interpreters in state penitentiaries had sentenced deaf inmates to "a prison within a prison."

When we began querying state penitentiaries for study subjects, Florida thought he was just the guy for the job.

The results in the book are exact opposites of those since achieved in real-life American state penitentiaries with real-life electric chairs.

In exchange for reduced charges of attempted manslaughter, Gotti and Ruggiero pleaded guilty, and each received maximum terms of four years at state penitentiaries.

To accommodate them, Albany spent some $1.4 billion to increase the number of state penitentiaries from 38 to 70.

Over the last two days, 744 of the 2,600 prisoners at Camp Hill have been transferred to other state penitentiaries.

They will remain in state penitentiaries while those they displace will be sent to the Federal prisons.