The American Correctional Association is a private,non-profit,non-governmental trade association and accrediting body for the corrections industry,the oldest and largest such association in the world. The organization was founded in 1870 and has a significant place in the history of prison reform in the U.S.
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 has served since March 2021.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for all federal prisons and provides for the care,custody,and control of federal prisoners.
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 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.
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.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt,popularly known to her contemporaries as the First Lady of Law,was an American lawyer who served as the United States Assistant Attorney General from 1921 to 1929,handling cases concerning violations of the Volstead Act,federal taxation,and the Bureau of Federal Prisons during the Prohibition era. For enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment,the prohibition against the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages,she also earned herself a nickname “Prohibition Portia”.
Special Operations Response Teams are a group under the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP),a component of the US Department of Justice. 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 Federal Correctional Institution,Miami is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Florida. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP),a division of the United States Department of Justice. The institution also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security male offenders.
The District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DCDC) is a law enforcement agency responsible for the adult jails and other adult correctional institutions and law enforcement buildings for the District of Columbia,in the United States. DCDC runs the D.C. Jail.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center,San Diego is a United States federal administrative detention facility in California which 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.
The Federal Detention Center,Miami is a prison operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It is located in downtown Miami,at the corner of Northeast Fourth Street and North Miami Avenue. The administrative facility employed 311 staff as of 2002 and housed 1,512 male and female inmates as of July 15,2010.
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 Prison Camp,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 American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein unresponsive in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City,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 and the Justice Department Inspector General 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.
Incarceration in California spans federal,state,county,and city governance,with approximately 200,000 people in confinement at any given time. An additional 55,000 people are on parole.
Mary Belle Harris (1874–1957) was an American prison administrator and reformer. She was superintendent of the Federal Industrial Institute for Women in Alderson,West Virginia,from 1927 to 1941. She implemented systems of inmate classification,decentralized housing,and other reforms that were later adopted throughout the Federal Bureau of Prisons. During World War I,she served on the U.S. Department of War's Commission on Training Camp Activities. She was previously superintendent of the State Reformatory for Women in Clinton,New Jersey,and prison superintendent at the Blackwell Island workhouse. She also served on the Pennsylvania Board of Parole.
