Sentences with phrase «housing federal inmates»

Costs for housing federal inmates have soared 46 % in a decade.

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The federal government has housed condemned inmates since 1999 at a high - security institution in Terre Haute, a town of some 60,000 people in western Indiana.

The only federal prison in Puerto Rico, MDC Guaynabo, is located in the northern part of the island and currently houses 1,389 inmates.

At the beginning of this month, the White House announced that President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 federal inmates.

For their video verité Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House, Susan and Alan Raymond interviewed inmates in the Lewisburg (Pennsylvania) Federal Prison.

Juveniles will no longer be housed at a Wisconsin youth prison that's been under federal investigation and the subject of multiple lawsuits alleging inmate abuse, Gov. Scott Walker announced on Thursday.

As of last December, less than 23,000 federal inmates were housed in private prisons.

The populations housed at the ECHC and ECCF include: non-arraigned, non-sentenced, sentenced and federal inmates.

There are several tailwinds that could propel private prisons to new heights: private correctional facilities house only a fraction of all inmates in the United States and the world, state and federal governments are more willing than ever to outsource prison management to a private company, and the number of incarcerated people continues to grow at a rate faster than the general population.

Did You Know: The Danbury Federal Correctional Institute is notable for housing a number of famous inmates, including jazz singer Billie Holiday and former Manson follower Lynette «Squeaky» Fromme.

A federal correctional officer works within the federal prison system, which houses inmates who are being charged with or convicted of a federal crime.