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19-499: Fox Hill may refer to: Bahamas [ edit ] Fox Hill Prison Fox Hill, Bahamas , a village in New Providence Fox Hill (Bahamas Parliament constituency) United Kingdom [ edit ] Fox Hill, South Yorkshire , a district of Southey ward United States [ edit ] Fox Hill, Virginia , a neighborhood of Hampton Fox Hill Plantation ,

38-414: A cell. In 2017, Commissioner Patrick Wright confirmed that prisoners in the maximum-security block still had to use buckets instead of toilets. Bahamian attorney Romona Farquharson has stated that sometimes prisoners get as little as 30 minutes of outdoor time per week. Commissioner of Correctional Services Doan Cleare said in 2022 that conditions in the prison had improved, with renovations and an end to

57-523: A historic house in Lancaster County, Virginia See also [ edit ] Foxhill (disambiguation) Fox Hills (disambiguation) The Tower on Fox Hill , in Rockville, Connecticut [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

76-729: A name shared with other prisons in the former British Empire . On August 11, 2014, its name was changed to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services. Fox Hill Prison was not the first prison in the Bahamas. The earliest record of a prison in what is now the Bahamas was in the 1600s. Former prisons in Nassau now house the Nassau Public Library and the Royal Bahamas Police Force headquarters. The Bahamas also maintains

95-730: A year — the second largest solar saline operation in North America and Inagua's main industry. Great Inagua Airport ( IATA : IGA , ICAO : MYIG ) is located nearby. A large bird sanctuary in the centre of the island has a population of more than 80,000 West Indian flamingoes and many other bird species, including the Bahama parrot , Inagua woodstar , Bahama pintail , brown pelican , tricolored heron , snowy egret , reddish egret , stripe-headed tanager , double-crested cormorant , Neotropic cormorant , roseate spoonbill , American kestrel , and burrowing owl . The Union Creek National Reserve

114-477: Is specially set aside for the study of green sea turtles ( Chelonia mydas ). The neighbouring Little Inagua , 8 km (5 mi; 4 nmi) to the northeast, is uninhabited and occupied by a large Land and Sea Park. It has an area of 30 sq mi (78 km ), with herds of feral donkeys and goats (descendants of stock introduced by the French ). Various species of endangered sea turtles breed on

133-493: Is the major employer on the island. Great Inagua is the second largest island in the Bahamas at 596 sq mi (1544 km ) and lies about 55 miles (89 kilometres) from the eastern tip of Cuba . The island is about 55 by 19 mi (89 by 31 km) in extent and mostly flat with some sand hills, the highest points being East Hill at 132 ft (40 m), Salt Pond Hill at 102 ft (31 m), and James Hill at 90 ft (27 m). It encloses several lakes, most notably

152-610: The British HMS Lowestoffe in 1801, and the British HMS Statira in 1815. As early as the 1600s, salt was being produced and shipped to Spanish colonies, and its extraction was a going business by 1803. Henri Christophe , king of northern Haiti from 1811 to 1820, built a summer retreat at the Northeast Point of Great Inagua. Local legend has it that he also buried a cache of gold there. By 1918, after

171-481: The Lucayan people , who arrived sometime between 500 and 800 CE, crossing in dugout canoes from Hispaniola and/or Cuba to the Bahamas. The larger island was initially called by the name Heneagua , which may derive from a Spanish expression meaning 'water is to be found there'. Two names of apparent Lucayan origin, Inagua (meaning "Small Eastern Island") and Baneque (meaning "Big Water Island"), were used by

190-416: The "issues with rodents". A video from The Nassau Guardian the same year showed a mixture of age and quality of facilities, with some facilities renovated, but some prisoners still in crowded cells. Notable inmates detained at the prison include: 25°01′40″N 77°17′31″W  /  25.02778°N 77.29194°W  / 25.02778; -77.29194 Inagua The original settlers were

209-461: The 12-mile (19 km) long Lake Windsor (also called Lake Rosa) which occupies nearly a quarter of the interior. The population of Great Inagua is 913 (2010 census). The island's capital and only harbour is Matthew Town, named after George Matthew , a 19th-century Governor of the Bahamas . This town houses the Morton Salt Company ’s main facility, producing one million tonnes of sea salt

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228-629: The Bahamas . Located in Nassau , the capital, it is operated by the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services . Fox Hill Prison has minimum, medium, and maximum security facilities for male prisoners. It also has one block for female prisoners, as well as a medical block. The prison was established at its current location in Fox Hill, Bahamas, in March 1952. It was originally named Her Majesty's Prisons ,

247-429: The Bahamas, the prison is overcrowded, unsanitary, and lacks adequate food and medical care. The report stated that the prison was infested with maggots, rats, and insects; that cells had buckets instead of toilets; and that prisoners reported bed sores caused by sleeping on the ground. It also stated that prisoners shared 6 by 10 foot (2 by 3 meter) cells with no mattresses, no toilets, and as many as six prisoners to

266-663: The Carmichael Road Detention Centre for migrants in Nassau, New Providence . The center opened in 1993 as the first immigration detention facility in the Caribbean. Before that time, immigrant detainees in the Bahamas were held at Fox Hill. Most detainees at the Carmichael Road facility are from Haiti and Cuba . Like the Fox Hill prison, the Carmichael Road facility has been criticized for poor conditions. The Bahamian immigration minister said in 2022 that

285-665: The Spanish to refer to Great Inagua. Between the years of 1500 and 1825, many documented treasure laden ships were destroyed on Inaguan reefs. The two most valuable wrecks lost off the Inaguas were treasure-laden Spanish galleons : the Santa Rosa in 1599; and the Infanta in 1788. Other ships of considerable value that were wrecked there include the French Le Count De Paix in 1713,

304-594: The buildings, but the locals felt threatened, fearing changes to the power structure status quo . In August 1937, a riot broke out, an employee was killed, and the Ericksons were forced to flee. They soon returned, and full-scale development resumed. In the mid-1950s, Morton Salt bought the Great Inagua saltworks, which includes over 80 salt ponds , now the second largest such operation in North America . Morton

323-511: The end of World War I , lower salt prices and competition had driven the small producers on Great Inagua out of business, and the salt works were abandoned except for incidental local use. In 1935, the Erickson brothers from Massachusetts founded West India Chemicals Ltd., purchasing the abandoned salt works from the British government. They drilled test holes, set up offices, and began restoration of

342-548: The government was upgrading the Carmichael Road facility and also planned to build a migrant detention center in Inagua . The prison has been criticised internationally for poor conditions. A 2003 report by Amnesty International found that the prison had a high risk of transmission of diseases such as tuberculosis . According to the United States Department of State 's 2020 Country Report on Human Rights Practices for

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