Iberville Parish is a parish located south of Baton Rouge in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,387. Its seat is Plaquemine. The parish was formed in 1807.
Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, located along the Vermilion River in the southwestern part of the state. The city of Lafayette is the fourth-largest in the state, with a population of 126,185 according to 2019 U.S. Census estimates. It is the principal city of the Lafayette, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area, with a 2015 estimated population of 490,488. The larger trade area or Combined Statistical Area of Lafayette-Opelousas-Morgan City CSA was 627,146 in 2015. Its nickname is The Hub City.
A private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. Private prison companies typically enter into contractual agreements with governments that commit prisoners and then pay a per diem or monthly rate, either for each prisoner in the facility, or for each place available, whether occupied or not. Such contracts may be for the operation only of a facility, or for design, construction and operation.
The term "prison–industrial complex" (PIC), derived from the "military–industrial complex" of the 1950s, describes the attribution of the rapid expansion of the US inmate population to the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies for profit. The most common agents of PIC are corporations that contract cheap prison labor, construction companies, surveillance technology vendors, companies that operate prison food services and medical facilities, correctional officers unions, private probation companies, lawyers, and lobby groups that represent them.
Incarceration in the United States is one of the main forms of punishment and rehabilitation for the commission of felony and other offenses. The United States has the largest prison population in the world, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate. In 2018 in the US, there were 698 people incarcerated per 100,000; this includes the incarceration rate for adults or people tried as adults. In 2016, 2.2 million Americans have been incarcerated, which means for every 100,000 there are 655 that are currently inmates. Prison, parole, and probation operations generate an $81 billion annual cost to U.S. taxpayers, while police and court costs, bail bond fees, and prison phone fees generate another $100 billion in costs that are paid by individuals.
Caddo Parish is a parish located in the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 254,969, making it the fourth-most populous parish in Louisiana. The parish seat is Shreveport, which developed along the Red River.
CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee by Thomas W. Beasley, Robert Crants, and T. Don Hutto, it received investments from the Tennessee Valley Authority, Vanderbilt University, and Jack C. Massey, the founder of Hospital Corporation of America.
The Clark County Sheriff's Office is the local, county-level law enforcement agency serving Clark County, Washington. The Clark County Sheriff's Office was established in 1849 and is the oldest law enforcement organization in the state of Washington. The Clark County Sheriff's Office employs approximately 450 employees who serve in three distinct branches; enforcement, corrections, and support. The enforcement branch is composed of sworn deputy sheriffs who typically perform general policing duties such as patrolling the county, investigating crimes, serving arrest warrants, transporting prisoners, controlling disturbances, providing a safe atmosphere at large county events, along with a variety of other emergency and routine activities. Deputy sheriff's also serve in specialty assignments such as detectives, narcotics, SWAT, K9, marine patrol, school resource officer, explosive disposal unit, traffic homicide, sex offender monitoring, computer forensics, and child abuse investigations. Corrections deputies work in two different facilities; the main jail and the Lower River Road work center. The main jail is a medium and high security jail facility which houses an average of 600 inmates daily. The Lower River Road work center is a low-security jail facility which houses approximately 100 inmates. Support branch employees are non-sworn employees who work in criminal records, warrants, finance, human resources, admin, and in jail support roles supervising jail inmates who work in food and laundry services.
The Hawaii Department of Public Safety is a department within the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is headquartered in the 919 Ala Moana Boulevard building in Honolulu, Hawaii. The department's mission statement is "To uphold justice and public safety by providing correctional and law enforcement services to Hawaii’s communities with professionalism, integrity and fairness.". The Department of Public Safety is made up of three divisions: Administration, Corrections, and Law Enforcement.
The Montgomery Correctional Center, previously known as the City Prison Farm and Montgomery Correctional Center, started in 1958, on a large, 640-acre (2.6 km2) tract in the northwestern part of Jacksonville, Florida.
The Orleans County Sheriff's Office serves a population of over 42,000 people and covers an area of 396 square miles (1,030 km2) on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in Western New York. The Sheriff's Office provides full service law enforcement to the unincorporated areas of the county. The office also provides varying degrees of support to four municipal police departments and operates the Orleans County Jail.
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office (CPSO) is the chief law enforcement agency in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Its administrative offices are located in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The department has ten law enforcement centers. The current Sheriff is Tony Mancuso. They have over 900 employees. Patrol shifts are divided into East side units and West side units. The sheriff's office has crime scene personnel who assist patrol on calls to collect evidence as well as photos and forensic evidence. CPSO also has approximately 11 K9's with most trained as Apprehension and narcotics detection. There are K9's on every shift to assist with narcotics searches as well as searching for suspects and apprehension of suspects.
The Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPS&C) is a state agency of Louisiana, headquartered in Baton Rouge. The agency comprises two major areas: Public Safety Services and Corrections Services. The Secretary, who is appointed by the Governor, serves as the department's chief executive officer. The Corrections Services Deputy Secretary, Undersecretary, and Assistant Secretaries for the Office of Adult Services and the Office of Youth Development report directly to the Secretary. Headquarters Administration consists of centralized Divisions that support the management and operations of the adult and juvenile institutions, adult and juvenile probation and parole district offices, and all other services provided by the department.
The Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) operates nine prisons, four community release centers and 20 probation and parole offices in seven districts located throughout the state of Idaho. The agency has its headquarters in Boise.
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office (LPSO) is the sheriff's department in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. The department, headed by Sheriff Mark T. Garber, consists of around 750 sworn and non-sworn employees. Although the LPSO's jurisdiction consists of the entire parish of Lafayette, in order to not duplicate services provided by local city police, the primary patrol area is the unincorporated areas of the parish. The LPSO is CALEA accredited.
The Lafayette Police Department is the principal law enforcement agency in Lafayette, Louisiana, with the exception of the campus of University of Louisiana, which falls under the responsibility of the UL Police.
Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW) is a prison for women located in St. Gabriel, Louisiana. It is the only female correctional facility of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. Elayn Hunt Correctional Center is immediately west of LCIW. LCIW includes the state's female death row. As of 2017 the prison is temporarily closed due to flooding that occurred in August 2016, and its prisoners are housed in other prisons. The new facility will be in a different location.
The Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office (MPSO) is the primary law enforcement agency of Morehouse Parish. It falls under the authority of the Sheriff, who is the chief law enforcement officer of the parish.
Forcht-Wade Correctional Center was a state prison facility in unincorporated Caddo Parish, Louisiana. The prison, operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections, was located in the Eddie D. Jones Nature Park in Keithville. The prison also controlled the Dr. Martin Forcht Jr. Clinical Treatment Unit, a facility located near Spring Ridge.
The government of Harris County, Texas maintains its main jail complex in Downtown Houston, Texas. The complex, operated by the Harris County Sheriff's Office, lies in the peninsula formed by the Buffalo Bayou in northern Downtown Houston. While most of the complex is based on county jails serving Harris County, Joe Kegans State Jail is also located within the complex. The Harris County District Court is located just next to the jail complex.
