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| institutions designed to house convicted, adult felons serving a sentence of one year or more |
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| 1981-permissible to double bunk inmates. Reinforced the totality of conditions standard, which looked at all parts of an inmate's day, including number out of cell hours. |
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| 1989-permissible to keep inmates secured in their cells for all but 5 hours/week (but this was in a supermax (admin. seg) facility) |
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| a statement of an organization's major function and what it is to accomplish, or its basic purposes, to include general outcomes that it is committed to achieving |
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| an emphasis on the rational and efficient deployment of control strategies for managing and confining high-risk criminal populations |
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| A Reagan initiative to reduce the availability and dependence on illicit drugs through interdiction, criminal sanctions, and treatment |
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| traditional reference to crimes with little sophistication required, such as murder, robbery, burglary, assault, and theft |
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| the making of a crime a federal rather than a state offense; results when the U.S. Congress decides that it desires federal law enforcement and prosecution of certain offenses |
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| the 1891 act of Congress that authorized the construction of the first three federal prisons |
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| Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) |
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| an agency within the U.S. department of justice charged with housing and managing federal law offenders |
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| The first director of the BOP |
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| sentencing reform act of 1984 |
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| the act of congress that abolished parole, established determinate sentencing, and reduced the amount of good time available to federal offenders |
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| the white slave act in 1910 |
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| federalized the crime of interstate commerce of prostitution |
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| harrison narcotic act in 1914 |
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| federal law that taxing and records must be kept on controlled substances |
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| prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol (later repealed) |
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| federal law regarding interstate transportation of stolen vehicles |
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| levels such as minimum, low, medium, high, or maximum are distinct by such features as the presence of towers and other perimeter security barriers with detection devices, the type of housing for prisoners, and the staff-to-inmate ratio |
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| to match offenders to institutions that have the physical security and staff resources to prevent escapes and control their behavior |
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| immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) |
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| formerly the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), responsible for housing illegal aliens pending a hearing or deportation back to their home country |
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| a military term meaning a correctional facility |
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| any secure correctional facility, operated by other than a governmental agency and usually in a for-profit manner, which contracts with a governmental entity, to provide security, housing, and programs for adult offenders |
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| Corrections Corporation of America |
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| the largest of the private prison corporations that opened the first private, for-profit correctional facility in 1984 in Tennessee; currently operates seventy correctional facilities |
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| a private correctional company headquartered in Florida that operates 110 correctional facilities in the United States |
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| Management Training Corporation |
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| a private correctional company headquartered in Utah that operates nineteen correctional facilities in the U.S. |
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