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  2. Electronic monitoring in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Prison overcrowding in CA led to a 2011 court order to reduce the state prison population by 30,000 inmates.. In the aftermath of decades-long tough on crime legislation that increased the US inmate population from 200,000 [6] in 1973 to over two million in 2009, [7] financially strapped states and cities turned to technology—wrist and ankle monitors—to reduce inmate populations as courts ...

  3. Can California change a dark culture at Chowchilla women's ...

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    Efforts to reform life inside the walls of the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla are making headway. But most female prisoners have experienced levels of trauma that make it hard ...

  4. Inmate telephone system - Wikipedia

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    In order to use an inmate telephone service, inmates must register and provide a list of names and numbers for the people they intend to communicate with. [5] Call limitations vary depending on the prison's house rule, but calls are typically limited to 15 minutes each, and inmates must wait thirty minutes before being allowed to make another call. [6]

  5. Prison–industrial complex - Wikipedia

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    Correctional populations in the U.S., 1980–2013 US timeline graphs of number of people incarcerated in jails and prisons [1]. The prison-industrial complex (PIC) is a term, coined after the "military-industrial complex" of the 1950s, [2] used by scholars and activists to describe the many relationships between institutions of imprisonment (such as prisons, jails, detention facilities, and ...

  6. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    In 1989, one of their hotels, a midtown Manhattan property called LeMarquis, opened some of its rooms to federal inmates. Slattery and Horn called the new company Esmor, Inc. They laid out ambitious expansion goals that included running a variety of facilities that would house federal prisoners, undocumented immigrants and juvenile delinquents.

  7. Federal Bureau of Prisons - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Home Loan Bank Board Building, which houses the main office of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C.. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that is responsible for all federal prisons in the country and provides for the care, custody, and control of federal prisoners.

  8. Incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In a maximum security prison or area (called high security in the federal system), all prisoners have individual cells [157] with sliding doors controlled from a secure remote control station. Prisoners are allowed out of their cells one out of twenty four hours (one hour and 30 minutes for prisoners in California).

  9. Prison escape, multiple sightings and a stolen rifle ...

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    Mr Holland declined to say what the prison officer was believed to be doing during the escape, only noting that he was at the post. 1 to 7 September – Sightings in Longwood Gardens, Pocopson and ...