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The facility was first opened in 1986 as a Community Therapy mental health unit (Comunidad Terapéutica de Guerrero) of the Puerto Rico Department of Health. It became a correctional facility in March 1997. As of 2008 about a third of its inmates were pre-trial detainees, and the others were serving longer sentences at minimum security. [2]
In March 2012, Puerto Rico contracted with Corrections Corporation of America to send as many as 480 inmates to CCA's Cimarron Correctional Facility near Cushing, Oklahoma. [14] The three-year contract was brought to a premature close in June 2013 after unit-wide fights and "disruptive events", with the inmates sent home. [15]
MDC Guaynabo is located next to Fort Buchanan U.S. Army base, [1] and is 6 miles (9.7 km) west of San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. [2] In the wake of the destruction of Hurricane Maria in September 2017, some 1200 federal prisoners were transferred from Guaynabo to the Federal Correctional Institution, Yazoo City in Mississippi. [3]
Administrative facilities include metropolitan correctional centers (MCCs), metropolitan detention centers (MDCs), federal detention centers (FDCs), federal medical centers (FMCs), the Federal Transfer Center (FTC), and the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners (MCFP), all of which are capable of holding inmates in all security categories.
Between state and federal correctional facilities, that meant 3,356 of 28,172 prisoners in Missouri were in restrictive housing in 2019. In Kansas, it was 1,010 of 9,631. Nearby Arkansas sat at 13.5%.
Missouri Department of Corrections; Montana Department of Corrections; Nebraska Department of Correctional Services; Nevada Department of Corrections; New Hampshire Department of Corrections; New Jersey Department of Corrections; New Mexico Corrections Department; New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Otay Detention Facility (San Diego Correctional Facility) In use (2009) San Diego, California: Prison Secure DHS/ ICE: Corrections Corporation of America: 1,154 (2009) 1,017 (2007) Adult males only Otero County Detention: In use (2007) Alamogordo, New Mexico: Prison Secure DHS/ ICE: County of Otero Sheriff's Office 17 (2007) Otero County ...
Jun. 26—A guard at the Penitentiary of New Mexico outside Santa Fe was stabbed in the back of the head by an inmate earlier this month, according to criminal charges filed this week. Cain ...