02-19-2018, 02:06 PM
(02-19-2018, 01:59 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: From what I read, LA, NYC, Houston, and Chicago have the largest prisons and they're all located within the city itself (Riker's Island is an island between two boroughs).
I could be wrong with my numbers on these being the largest.
Those would be the largest prisons being there, but that doesn't mean most large prisons are located in urban centers. I see what you were saying, now, but your original statement was something different. For instance, though, Angola is the largest maximum security prison in the country and it is is BFE. That's around 6300 inmates in the middle of nowhere. How many possibly came from more urban areas in Louisiana?
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