Currently, there are over 2 million people incarcerated in the 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, 79 Indian Country jails, military prisons, immigration detention facilities,
civil commitment centers, and prisons in U.S. territories.
The rejected newsletters come as residents in the state's other main facility, the Central New York Psychiatric
Center in Marcy, are saying that they've been banned from participating in monthly conference calls where
civil commitment issues are discussed with Bowers and other prison reform advocates.