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Most United States penitentiaries (USPs) are high-security facilities, which have highly secured perimeters with walls or reinforced fences, multiple and single-occupant cell housing, the highest staff-to-inmate ratio, and close control of inmate movement.
This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories):
In the United States in 2016, women made up 9.8% of the incarcerated population in adult prisons and jails. [ 12][ 13] Comparing English-speaking developed countries; [ 9] the overall incarceration rate in the US was 531 per 100,000 population of all ages in 2021, [ 12] the incarceration rate of Canada was 85 per 100,000 in 2020, [ 14] England ...
Maine Department of Corrections. Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. List of Massachusetts state correctional facilities. List of Michigan state prisons. Minnesota Department of Corrections. Mississippi Department of Corrections. Missouri Department of Corrections. Montana Department of Corrections.
The Bureau of Prisons was established within the Department of Justice on May 14, 1930 by the United States Congress, [ 5] and was charged with the "management and regulation of all Federal penal and correctional institutions." [ 6] This responsibility covered the administration of the 11 federal prisons in operation at the time.
South Dakota Department of Corrections. Tennessee Department of Correction. Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Utah Department of Corrections. Vermont Department of Corrections. Virginia Department of Corrections. Washington State Department of Corrections. West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
This category has the following 20 subcategories, out of 20 total. Prisons in the United States by state (50 C) Inmates of prisons in the United States (7 C) Prisons in Washington, D.C. (1 C)
Federal American prisons in fiction (2 C) Federal Correctional Institutions in the United States (1 C, 66 P)