108 results for: Judicial and Legal Systems
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Inmates working on WWII boat at McNeil Island Penitentiary, October 4, 1942
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.18.07
Date:1942
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Children on swings at McNeil Island playground, April 19, 1972
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.18.08
Date:1972
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Inmates eating lunch at McNeil Island Penitentiary, February 1939
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.01
Date:1939
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Inmates working in cannery at McNeil Island Penitentiary, October 1942
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.02
Date:1942
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View of McNeil Island Penitentiary, March 3, 1971
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.03
Date:1971
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Cuban detainees watching TV at McNeil Island Penitentiary, February 1981
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.04
Date:1981
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Inmates watching a sweat lodge ceremony at McNeil Island Corrections Center, January 1985
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.05
Date:1985
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Cell at McNeil Island Penitentiary, February 28, 1974
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.06
Date:1974
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William H. (Bill) Neukom, Seattle, August 1980
Born in Chicago and raised in San Mateo Park, CA, Bill Neukom led an active life in law, higher education, philanthropy, and baseball. After graduating from Dartmouth and Stanford Law School, Neukom moved to Seattle, serving as a law clerk in the King County Superior Court before starting private practice. Through the American Bar Association, he met Bill Gates, Sr.,…
ID Number:2000.107.132.04.01
Date:1980
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Supporters for clemency for Don White holding picket signs, Olympia, March 23, 1964
Don Anthony White, a Black man convicted of murdering two people in Seattle in 1959, was sentenced to death on July 18, 1960, by the King County Superior Court. A series of demonstrations supporting clemency for Mr. White led to a retrial in 1966 where he was again found guilty as charged and was sentenced to serve two concurrent terms…
ID Number:2000.107.141.13.02
Date:1964