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	Human Rights Watch: Prisons
		Overcrowding contributed to the growth of private prisons: according to the Department of Justice privately-operated facilities held 5.5 percent of all state prisoners and 2.5 percent of federal prisoners.
		Inmates at Wisconsin's new super-max prison filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the conditions to which they were subjected, including round-the-clock confinement in isolation, constant fluorescent lighting in their cells, twenty-four hour video monitoring that permitted female staff to watch prisoners shower and urinate, and inadequate recreation.
		Inmates at the prison complained in 2000 of an apparently new staff practice of placing inmates in five point restraints for as long as forty-eight hours because they masturbated or displayed their genitals in front of female staff.
	www.hrw.org /prisons/united_states.html (2727 words)

	Prisons in the United States Summary
		Prisons in the United States are operated by the Federal government, as well as by each of the state governments.
		Incarceration is one of the main forms of punishment for the commission of felony offenses in the United States.
		The reasons for this development of private prisons are threefold and these three trends converged in the 1980's: the ideological imperatives of the free market, the huge increase in the number of prisoners, and the increase in imprisonment costs.
	www.bookrags.com /Prisons_in_the_United_States (233 words)

	Monthly Review July-August 2001 The Editors
		In the ideal prison, as described by Bentham, the prisoners would be confined to cells radiating around a central point, where they would fall under the surveillance of some “all seeing” supervisor—hence the word “panopticon.” The intention was to realize simultaneously within the penitentiary the key objectives of isolation, labor and perpetual surveillance.
		In Alabama on May 19, 2001, a federal judge declared that nearly 2000 state prisoners were being held wrongfully in county jails (beyond the date for transfer to state prisons) because of overcrowding in the state prisons.
		Table 2 illustrates this, showing a significant contrast between five states (all from the South) with exceptionally high prison rates that are also among the lowest in personal income per capita, and five states (all from the North) with exceptionally low incarceration rates that are also among the highest in personal income per capita.
	www.monthlyreview.org /0701editr.htm (4797 words)

	Bureau of Justice Statistics Prison Statistics
		Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006, 6/07.
		Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2005, 5/06.
		Crime and Justice in the United States and in England and Wales, 1981-96, 10/98.
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /bjs/prisons.htm (2122 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| Prisons For Fun And Profit
		Prison Tycoon would be just another in a string of relatively offensive video games (think Grand Theft Auto) if it were only a farfetched fiction as it seems.
		Instead, Prison Tycoon is a reflection of one of the fastest growing and most nefarious legal industries in the United States.
		In fact, while the United States has roughly 8% of the worldâs total population, it incarcerates nearly 25% of the worldâs imprisoned population.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10441§ionID=1 (627 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Prison Conditions in the United States
		The BOP has, however, stated that after a comprehensive examination of chapel libraries in the federal prison system, it may institute a similar policy and once again remove a portion of religious texts that are made available to inmates.
		Thirty percent of prisoners are estimated to have major depression and 15 percent may have a psychotic disorder.
		The evidence is overwhelming that it is cruel and a violation of basic human dignity to force prisoners with serious mental illness to spend years confined round the clock in claustrophobic cells, with nothing to do, and no one with whom to have a normal conversation.
	www.hrw.org /prisons (1498 words)

	NPR : Prison Call Centers Put Squeeze on Service Sector
		Most of the centers handle orders for items the prisoners are making themselves and deal almost exclusively with the non-profits and government agencies that are allowed to buy their goods.
		But in a few cases, prisons have offered their call centers' services to private companies on the outside who want to outsource their own departments.
		Maney says there are still a number of companies outside of prisons in the United States that offer customer-service calling centers, and they have been hurt by the competition.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4505278&sourceCode=RSS (792 words)

	AK Press :: Topic :: Prisons/Prisoners
		We explore their extraordinary struggles for dignity, justice, and human rights while incarcerated in Angola Prison in Louisiana, one of the "most brutal and racist prisons in the United States".
		Mad Bomber Melville is the long overdue biography of Samuel Melville, a white, working class revolutionary, whose guerrilla bombings of Manhattan skyscrapers, housing government and corporate offices driving the Vietnam War, set in motion a flood of armed revolutionary actions in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
		Donald MacNeil was a sailing instructor in the north of England when he was hired to skipper a yacht across the Mediterranean while teaching its owners to sail.
	www.akpress.org /2005/topics/prisons (846 words)

	USDOJ: About DOJ
		In 1870, after the post-Civil War increase in the amount of litigation involving the United States necessitated the very expensive retention of a large number of private attorneys to handle the workload, a concerned Congress passed the Act to Establish the Department of Justice, ch.
		Officially coming into existence on July 1, 1870, the Department of Justice, pursuant to the 1870 Act, was to handle the legal business of the United States.
		The Act gave the Department control over all criminal prosecutions and civil suits in which the United States had an interest.
	www.usdoj.gov /02organizations (241 words)

	LIBRARY: Sexual Abuse of Women in United States Prisons: A Modern Corollary of Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Data collected under the Death in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP) indicate half of all state prisoner deaths between 2001-2004 were the result of...
		State correctional institutions and local jails are struggling to find solutions to the problem of overcrowding created by probation/parole...
		The "complex dynamics of male prisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse in the United States" is examined (p.
	www.nicic.org /Library/021807 (633 words)

	Media Mouse: Violence, Abuse Common in United States Prisons: Grand Rapids Michigan Independent Media
		Segregation of “violent” prisoners from the general population has created a situation where some prisoners are kept in their cells 23 hours per day with no opportunity to prepare for release.
		Health care in prisons could be improved through better partnerships with medical facilities outside of the prison system and Medicare and Medicaid dollars could improve funding as many prisoners would qualify for such assistance if they were outside of the prison system.
		The report recommends that each state create an independent agency to monitor prisons and jails, that a national non-governmental organization be setup to inspect conditions, that there be increased transparency within the prison system, that meaningful complaint processes are developed, and that practice, not just policy, are monitored within prisons.
	www.mediamouse.org /briefs/061506viole.php (624 words)

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	United States Department of Justice
		As part of Project Safe Childhood, the U.S. Department of Justice together with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) and the Ad Council have partnered to produce the following Public Service Announcements (PSA’s) in an ongoing initiative to protect America’s youth.
		Further, the Project Safe Childhood Web site provides information to our federal, state, and local community partners that will help protect our children from online exploitation and abuse.
		Links to the PSA’s and Project Safe Childhood Web site are below:
	www.usdoj.gov (576 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Category:Prisons in the United States
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		See also this category's main article at Prisons in the United States of America
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	U.S. Faces Scrutiny Over Secret Prisons
		The classified site is part of a global network of covert prisons the CIA established after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with locations in eight countries, including Afghanistan, Thailand and several East European democracies.
		It is illegal for the U.S. government to hold prisoners in such isolation in secret prisons in the United States, which is why the CIA placed them overseas, according to several former and current intelligence officials and other U.S. officials.
		The Red Cross is allowed to visit prisoners held by the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay but has previously expressed concern that U.S. officials were keeping some detainees hidden from its monitors.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/03/AR2005110300422.html (837 words)

	MotherJones.com -- Debt to Society
		There are more people behind bars in the United States today than ever before.
		Since 1980, the inmate population has more than quadrupled to two million -- an unprecedented explosion that is incurring unprecedented costs to all Americans.
		Prisons are rife with infectious illnesses -- and threaten to spread them to the public.
	www.motherjones.com /prisons (284 words)

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