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Prisons
A building designed to keep people inside, filed under reports that something declined to leave. Prison dossiers rest on unusually dense documentation — executions, riots, decades of inmate accounts — and the claims they carry are correspondingly specific: cells, blocks and yards identified by number. Operating or closed, these sites record what was reported and by whom; the archive notes that the official record here is dark enough without embellishment.
21 dossiers18 jurisdictions90% open to visitors
By jurisdiction:New York3