Where is the biggest prison in the US?

Answer 1

I know several: The largest prison by population and land area is the Southern Michigan Correctional Facility (JMF) in Jackson. It was actually the largest walled prison in the world for many decades. It is actually several prisons in one, and houses over five thousand inmates. Each of the included prisons is known euphemistically by different names: Quarantine or North Side (male intake for the MDOC), 7-Block, 6-Block, 11-Block, etc. It is currently closed, a common tactic of the MDOC as the buildings are condemned periodically by the state. However, the MDOC, using inmate labor "remodels" the facility, changes the name and address and reopens it within a year or two. The largest prison building in the US is Stateville Correctional Center north of Joliet, Illinois. Stateville is built on the panopticon plan, with a central guard house surronded on all sides by tiers (floors or levels) of cells, and houses approzimately 2,700 inmate. Pelican Bay Penitentiary is one of the largest high security prisons in the US. It is comprised of 275 acres and houses 3,461 inmates, mostly with gang affilitions.

Answer 2

One of the largest prisons is the Angola State Penitentiary or Louisiana State Penitentiary,

located in Angola, Louisiana.

Answer 3

I think Rikers Island in New York has over 22,000 inmates

Answer 4

usa is a jail