The Aryan Brotherhood is a neo-Nazi prison gang and an organized crime syndicate that is based in the United States and has an estimated 15,000–20,000 members both inside and outside prisons. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has characterized it as "the nation's oldest major white supremacist prison gang and a national crime syndicate" while the Anti-Defamation League calls it the "oldest and most notorious racist prison gang in the United States". According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),the Aryan Brotherhood makes up an extremely low percentage of the entire US prison population,but it is responsible for a disproportionately large number of prison murders.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Florence is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Colorado. Part of the Florence Federal Correctional Complex,it is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that is responsible for all federal prisons in the country and provides for the care,custody,and control of federal prisoners.
United States Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum Facility is a United States federal prison in Fremont County,Colorado,operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice.
A super-maximum security (supermax) or administrative maximum (ADX) prison is a "control-unit" prison,or a unit within prisons,which represents the most secure level of custody in the prison systems of certain countries.
The Black Seminoles,or Afro-Seminoles,are an ethnic group of mixed Native American and African origin associated with the Seminole people in Florida and Oklahoma. They are mostly blood descendants of the Seminole people,free Africans,and escaped former slaves,who allied with Seminole groups in Spanish Florida. Many have Seminole lineage,but due to the stigma of having mixed origin,they have all been categorized as slaves or Freedmen in the past.
Joe M. Allbaugh is an American political figure in the Republican Party. After spending most of his career in Oklahoma and Texas,Allbaugh came to national prominence working for Texas governor George W. Bush and helping manage his 2000 presidential election campaign. Allbaugh then became Bush's Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) beginning in February 2001. He served until FEMA's transfer into the newly created Department of Homeland Security,after which he resigned in March 2003. He was appointed as the interim Director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections by the state Board of Corrections,effective January 11,2016. On July 6,2016,the Oklahoma Board of Corrections voted unanimously to make his appointment permanent and set his salary at $185,000. Allbaugh has pointed out his department "is not a listing ship,it is a sinking ship."
CoreCivic,Inc. 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 United States Penitentiary,Coleman I and II are high-security United States federal prisons for male inmates in Florida. It is part of the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. USP Coleman I was opened in 2001,and in 2004 Clark Construction completed a 555,000-square-foot (51,600 m2) additional component for USP Coleman II.
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.
The GEO Group,Inc. (GEO) is a publicly traded C corporation that invests in private prisons and mental health facilities in the United States,Australia,South Africa,and the United Kingdom. Headquartered in Boca Raton,Florida,the company's facilities include 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.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Terre Haute is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Indiana. It is part of the Federal Correctional Complex,Terre Haute and 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 for minimum-security male offenders.
The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) is the government agency responsible for operating state prisons in the U.S. state of Florida. It has its headquarters in the state capital of Tallahassee.
Alumni are former students or graduates of a school,college,or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women,and alums or alumns as gender-neutral alternatives. The word comes from Latin,meaning nurslings,pupils or foster children,derived from alere "to nourish".
The United States Penitentiary,Beaumont is a high security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Jefferson County,Texas. It is part of the Federal Correctional Complex,Beaumont and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice.
Charles T. Meide Jr.,known as Chuck Meide,is an underwater and maritime archaeologist and currently the Director of LAMP,the research arm of the St. Augustine Lighthouse &Maritime Museum located in St. Augustine,Florida. Meide,of Syrian descent on his father's side,was born in Jacksonville,Florida,and raised in the adjacent coastal town of Atlantic Beach. He earned BA and MA degrees in Anthropology with a focus in underwater archaeology in 1993 and 2001 from Florida State University,where he studied under George R. Fischer,and undertook Ph.D. studies in Historical Archaeology at the College of William and Mary starting the following year.
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.
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.
