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  2. Prison slang - Wikipedia

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    A Correctional Officer, visitor or prison employee inmates find attractive, due solely to extended confinement from other candidates Items A standard denominational currency (esp. in low and medium security institutions), often a snack bought from the prison commissary at the median price of snacks (eg, $1 snacks) Jacket A prisoner's central file

  3. Social groups in male and female prisons in the United States

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    The differences in male and female prison populations and social structure impact the correctional officers of the institutions as well as the inmates. Officers' views on certain emotional or sexual relationships, for instance, can cause them to treat members of pseudo-families in woman's prisons differently than they do the general population ...

  4. Prison library - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the United States, "seventy-five percent of the state prison population did not complete high school or are classified as low literate". [13] Other challenges include security risks. Some librarians feel like they are guards and other libraries are monitored by correctional officers. [14]

  5. American Correctional Association - Wikipedia

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    The organization was founded in 1870 and has a significant place in the history of prison reform in the U.S. ACA accredits over 900 prisons, jails, community residential centers (halfway houses), and various other corrections facilities in the U.S. and internationally, using their independently published standards manuals.

  6. Prison officer - Wikipedia

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    A prison officer (PO) or corrections officer (CO), also known as a correctional law enforcement officer or less formally as a prison guard, is a uniformed law enforcement official responsible for the custody, supervision, safety, and regulation of prisoners. They are responsible for the security of the facility and its property as well as other ...

  7. Two correctional officers indicted over alleged 2021 Passaic ...

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    Two Passaic County correctional officers were indicted by a federal grand jury on Monday on charges that stem from an alleged assault of a pretrial detainee in 2021, the U.S. Attorney's Office ...

  8. Wisconsin warden and 8 staff members charged following probes ...

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    Waupun Correctional Institution’s warden, Randall Hepp, is charged with misconduct in public office. “We are operating the oldest prison in the state of Wisconsin in

  9. List of United States state correction agencies - Wikipedia

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    Law enforcement in the United States; Law; Courts; Corrections; Separation of powers; Legislative; Executive; Judicial; Jurisdiction; Federal; Tribal; State; County ...