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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):
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.
On January 1, 2008 more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were in prison or jail. [7] [8] Total U.S. incarceration peaked in 2008. [5] The U.S. incarceration rate was the highest in the world in 2008. [4] It is no longer the highest rate. [9] The United States has one of the highest rates of female incarceration. [10]
This is a list of notable current and former inmates at the United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute. Currently, 16 inmates have been executed, and a further 40 inmates are imprisoned on death row awaiting execution. [1] [2] [3]
It is the first federal prison in Brazil, designed to receive prisoners deemed too dangerous to be kept in the states' prison systems. Campo Grande Federal Penitentiary ( Campo Grande , Mato Grosso do Sul , Brazil) - It houses the most dangerous prisoners in the country, as Fernandinho Beira-Mar , the Colombian trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez ...
Pages in category "United States Penitentiaries" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
See List of U.S. state prisons for an overview. Pages in category "Lists of United States state prisons" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.