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  2. Correctional emergency response team - Wikipedia

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    Prison tactical team (riot control) A correctional emergency response team (abbreviated CERT [1] or CRT) is a team of specially trained prison officers tasked with responding to disturbances, riots, cell extractions, mass searches, and other situations in prisons that are likely to involve uncooperative or violent prisoners.

  3. Special Operations Response Team - Wikipedia

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    Special Operations Response Teams are a group under the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), a component of the US Department of Justice.The BOP is responsible for maintaining the custody of anyone convicted of committing a federal crime.

  4. Prisoner rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the Prison Litigation Reform Act, or PLRA, is a federal statute enacted in 1996 with the intent of limiting "frivolous lawsuits" by prisoners.Among its provisions, the PLRA requires prisoners to exhaust all possibly executive means of reform before filing for litigation, restricts the normal procedure of having the losing defendant pay legal fees (thus making fewer ...

  5. United States federal probation and supervised release

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    The life cycle of federal supervision for a defendant. United States federal probation and supervised release are imposed at sentencing. The difference between probation and supervised release is that the former is imposed as a substitute for imprisonment, [1] or in addition to home detention, [2] while the latter is imposed in addition to imprisonment.

  6. List of United States federal prisons - Wikipedia

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    Camp Columbia Federal Prison: Washington 1947 Chillicothe Federal Reformatory: Ohio c. 1950s: Catalina Federal Honor Camp: Arizona 1951 United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island: California 1963 United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island: Washington 1982 Federal Prison Camp, Eglin: Florida 2006 Federal Prison Camp, Nellis: Nevada 2005 Federal ...

  7. Compassionate release - Wikipedia

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    Obtaining a compassionate release for a prison inmate is a process that varies from country to country (and sometimes even within countries) but generally involves petitioning the warden or court to the effect that the subject is terminally ill and would benefit from obtaining aid outside of the prison system, or is otherwise eligible under the relevant law.

  8. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

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    [7] This inmate population makes the CDCR the largest state-run prison system in the United States. [8] Regarding adult prisons, CDCR has the task of receiving and housing inmates that were convicted of felony crimes within the State of California. Adult inmates arriving at a state prison are assigned a classification based on the offense ...

  9. Probation and parole officer - Wikipedia

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    Most U.S. states employ parole officers via their department of corrections to supervise offenders that have served a prison term and have subsequently been paroled, or released from prison under supervision. This decision is commonly made after the review and consideration of an inmate's case by a warden, parole board or other parole authority ...