The United States Department of Justice (DOJ),also known as the Justice Department,is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States. It is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department is headed by the U.S. attorney general,who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet. The current attorney general is Merrick Garland,who was sworn in on March 11,2021.
The United States Penitentiary,Leavenworth is a medium security U.S. penitentiary with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp in northeast Kansas. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. It also includes a satellite federal prison camp (FPC) for minimum-security male offenders.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Justice that is responsible for the care,custody,and control of incarcerated individuals who have committed federal crimes;that is,violations of the United States Code.
Crime in Washington,D.C.,is directly related to the city's demographics,geography,and unique criminal justice system. The District's population reached a peak of 802,178 in 1950. Shortly after that,the city began losing residents,and by 1980 Washington had lost one-quarter of its population. The population loss to the suburbs also created a new demographic pattern,which divided affluent neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park from the less well-off neighborhoods to the east.
The United States Penitentiary,Thomson,formerly Thomson Correctional Center,is a high-security federal prison located in Thomson,Illinois. It has an area of about 146 acres (59 ha) and comprises 15 buildings. The facility is enclosed by a 15-foot (4.6 m),7000 volt electric fence surrounded by an additional 12-foot (3.7 m) exterior fence covered with razor wire. Thomson has eight cellhouses with a rated capacity of 2,100 beds—1,900 high-security SMU beds and 200 minimum-security beds at the onsite camp—and according to BOP officials,the potential to use some of its high-security rated capacity to house up to 400 ADX inmates. From its completion in 2001 to 2006,it remained empty. By 2009,only the minimum-security section housed prisoners.
The Federal Medical Center,Carswell is a United States federal prison in Fort Worth,Texas,for female inmates of all security levels,primarily with special medical and mental health needs. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP),a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has a prison camp for minimum-security female inmates.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Danbury is a low-security United States federal prison for male and female inmates in Danbury,Connecticut. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security female offenders.
The Metropolitan Detention Center,Brooklyn is a United States federal administrative detention facility in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn,New York City. It holds male and female prisoners of all security levels. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice.
Federal Correctional Institution,Tallahassee,is a low security United States federal prison for female inmates in Tallahassee,Florida with a designed designated capacity of 812. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent detention center that houses administrative security level male inmates.
Sargus Juvenile Detention Center is one of seven juvenile detention centers in the U.S. state of Ohio. Named after Judge Edmund A. Sargus,a former juvenile court judge of Belmont County,it is located just outside St. Clairsville,Ohio. The rated bed capacity is 17,but up to 24 youths are detained in the facility on any given day. It was established in 1973.
The GEO Group,Inc. (GEO) is a publicly traded C corporation that invests in private prisons and mental health facilities in North America,Australia,South Africa,and the United Kingdom. Headquartered in Boca Raton,Florida,the company's facilities include illegal immigration detention centers,minimum security detention centers,and mental-health and residential-treatment facilities. It also operates government-owned facilities pursuant to management contracts. As of December 31,2021,the company managed and/or owned 86,000 beds at 106 facilities. In 2019,agencies of the federal government of the United States generated 53% of the company's revenues. Up until 2021 the company was designated as a real estate investment trust,at which time the board of directors elected to reclassify as a C corporation under the stated goal of reducing the company's debt.
Special Operations Response Teams are a group under the US Federal Bureau of Prisons,or BOP for short,a component of the US Department of Justice (DOJ). The BOP is responsible for maintaining the custody of anyone convicted of committing a federal crime. To achieve this goal,the BOP maintains a number of correctional facilities,which are divided into six regions,throughout the US. These facilities house approximately 211,195 inmates of varying security levels. Facilities are designated as either minimum,medium,maximum,or the most recent addition,super max.
The District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DCDC) is a correctional agency responsible for the adult jails and other adult correctional institutions for the District of Columbia,in the United States. DCDC runs the D.C. Jail.
Management &Training Corporation or MTC is a contractor that manages private prisons and United States Job Corps centers,based in Centerville,Utah. MTC's core businesses are corrections,education and training,MTC medical,and economic &social development. MTC operates 21 correctional facilities in eight states. MTC also operates or partners in operating 22 of the 119 Job Corps centers across the country. They also operate in Great Britain,under the name MTCNovo.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Williamsburg is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Salters,South Carolina. It is run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. It has an adjacent prison camp for minimum-security male offenders.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Morgantown is a minimum-security United States federal prison for male inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility has been nicknamed 'Club Fed' because of its amenities which include a large college-like campus,a movie theater,a bocce ball court and a basketball court as well as housing many white collar,nonviolent offenders.
ZoéLaboy Alvarado is an American attorney and public servant. Laboy served as Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from 1997 to 2000. in 2016 she was elected to become a senator with the New Progressive Party (PNP) where she was the leader of the liberal wing of the party. On August 21,2019,she was appointed as Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced's Chief of Staff. In December 2019,she endorsed former Vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and has served as co-chair on his 2020 presidential campaign "Puerto Rico for Biden Leadership Committee".
Charles E. Samuels Jr. is the 8th and former director of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons,and the first African-American to be appointed to that post. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham,where he received his B.S. in Criminal Justice in 1987 and in 2012 received the school's Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. As director,he was responsible for the oversight and management of the Bureau of Prisons,which employs more than 39,000 staff and confines over 200,000 inmates under jurisdiction of the agency. As a career public administrator,he was appointed director of the federal agency on December 21,2011 by Attorney General Eric Holder,and is the eighth director since the BOP's establishment in 1930.
On August 10,2019,guards found the American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein unresponsive in his Metropolitan Correctional Center,New York,jail cell,where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. After prison guards performed CPR,he was transported in cardiac arrest to the New York Downtown Hospital,where he was pronounced dead at 6:39 am. The New York City medical examiner ruled that Epstein's death was a suicide by hanging. Epstein's lawyers challenged the medical examiner's conclusion and opened their own investigation,hiring pathologist Michael Baden.
Timothy Shea is an American attorney and prosecutor. From May 2020 until January 2021,he served as acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Previously,he was interim United States attorney for the District of Columbia,the country's largest U.S. attorney's office;a senior counselor to U.S. Attorney General William Barr at the Department of Justice;a lobbyist;and private corporate lawyer.
