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	Prisons in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prisons in the United States are operated by the Federal government, as well as by each of the state governments.
		The United States Federal Bureau of Prisons operates two such facilities: USP (United States Penitentiary) Marion (formerly a Level 5 facility), and ADX Florence, which was built specifically as a super max facility in 1994.
		In 2000, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of the Federal or State adult correctional authorities was 1,381,892 and overall, the United States imprisoned 2,071,686 persons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_prison_population (2141 words)

	United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States of America, also known as the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., the U.S. of A, the States, and America, is a country in North America.
		The Northern states were opposed to the expansion of slavery whereas the Southern states saw the opposition as an attack on their way of life, since their economy was dependent on slave labor.
		Hawaii, the fiftieth state, is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_of_America (7581 words)

	iCorrection.com -- Prisons in the United States
		A Penal Colony is a colony used to detain prisoners and generally use them for penal labor in an economically underdeveloped part of the state's (usually colonial) territories, and on a far larger scale than the prison farm.
		It has been stated that a major reason for the high numbers in prison in the United States is the drug laws that result in imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders.
		In many states, these facilites are maintained by county governments, with municipalities utilizing jails for the temporary holding of offenders until they are able to be transported to a county facility to await bail hearings or trial.
	www.icorrection.com /usa.html (1444 words)

	Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Prisons conventionally are institutions authorised by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war.
		Prisons form part of military systems, and are used variously to house prisoners of war, enemy combatants, and those whose freedom is deemed a risk by military authorities.
		The United Kingdom's HM Maze Prison at Long Kesh was used during the internment period in Northern Ireland to imprison suspected paramilitaries.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.de /articles/content/p/pr/prison.html (1161 words)

	AMERICA WILL SOON LOSE ITS CONSTITUTION
		The Jesuits are making a dedicated effort in the United States to degrade the morality of the people of the country, to destroy family life, and to destroy all the traditional values that made this country the greatest nation in the world.
		The gentle, gracious, freedom-loving character of the United States in its youth was later used as a facade to hide the character that this country subsequently developed.
		When the United States Passes the National Sunday Law as Predicted in the Bible tell the heartbreaking story of the death of America as it is described in Bible prophecy.
	www.pacinst.com /america.htm (4857 words)

	USA - religious cults, sects, and human rights issues in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		America's goverment frequently accuses countries (including, for example, France and Germany) that protect their citizens against destructive and/or fraudulent cults of violating 'human rights.' In addition, the USA even threathens those countries with economic boycotts should they not accept America's views on these issues.
		The United States was the fifth-largest user of capital punishment in 2000, carrying out 85 executions, the non-profit group Hands off Cain [English version]- a Rome-based league of citizens and MPs for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide - said in late June.
		In April 1998, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions released his report on the death penalty in the U.S. The special rapporteur found that the death penalty was applied in an unfair, arbitrary, and discriminatory manner.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /usa-00.html (5460 words)

	Bureau of Justice Statistics Prison Statistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Reports the number of persons in State and Federal prisons at yearend, compares the increase in the prison population during 2004 with that of the previous year, and gives the prison growth rates since 1995.
		Presents trend data from 1985 to 1997 on persons under 18 in State prison, focusing primarily on persons admitted to prison under the age of 18: their demographic characteristics, offenses, average sentence length, and expected time served.
		Crime and Justice in the United States and in England and Wales, 1981-96, 10/98.
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /bjs/prisons.htm (1974 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: United States
		In Virginia, prison officials suspended the use of the Ultron II stun gun, which delivers 50,000 volts of electricity, after an autopsy implicated the weapon in the death in 2000 of Lawrence Frazier, an inmate at Wallens Ridge State Prison.
		The health center agreed that assisting the state in the implementation of the death penalty was inconsistent with its mission as a hospital.
		The United States was virtually alone in imposing sentences of death on those who were children at the time of the crimes for which they were convicted.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k2/us.html (7186 words)

	97-3006 -- Moore v. U.S. Bureau of Prisons -- 10/30/1997
		In this appeal, appellant Maurice B. Moore contends that he was awarded insufficient damages in his suit against the United States Bureau of Prisons brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. This case arises out of appellant's loss of personal property during his transfer to the Federal Correctional Institution at Milan, Michigan.
		In FTCA cases, damages are determined by the law of the state where the tortious act was committed.
		The judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas is therefore AFFIRMED.
	www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/1997/10/97-3006.htm (670 words)

	Criminal Justice in America, 3rd Edition -- Links, Chp. 15--Prisons Today
		Prisons in the United States of America A report by Human Rights Watch on what it considers the deplorable condition of many U.S. prisons.
		Corrections Corporation of America This is the leading private sector provider of detention and corrections services to federal, state, and local governments.
		Attica Prison Riot A PBS interview with the mediator for Governor Rockefeller and an inmate participant.
	www.crf-usa.org /links/cja/cja_ch15.htm (557 words)

	[PRISONACT] IRIN Focus on safe-sex in prisons
		In prisons in the United States of America, it has been found that the homosexual population is just a few percent, very similar to the population in free society.
		When these prisoner rapists and prisoner rape victims turned rapists are released and if they continue this particular cycle of violence, they will most likely victimize women as easier and preferred prey.
		This is one example how prisons are often truly "schools of crime." And it is important here to note that rape is less about sex than it is about humiliation like the Nazis and their ilk enjoyed.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2001-January/003490.html (1627 words)

	Open Directory - Society: History: By Region: North America: United States: Wars: Civil War: Prisons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Point Lookout, Md., Prison Camp Records - In the two years during which the camp was in operation, August, 1863, to June, 1865, Point Lookout overflowed with inmates, surpassing its intended capacity of 10,000 to a population numbering between 12,500 and 20,000.
		Prisons - Details about the locations that were used as prisons during the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia.
		Vermonters in Rebel Prisons - The final statements of each artillery, cavalry and infantry regiment, representing 28, 884 troops, of whom 2, 180 were taken prisoner and 601 died in prison.
	dmoz.org /Society/History/By_Region/North_America/United_States/Wars/Civil_War/Prisons (991 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Prisons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Prisons have become the nation’s primary mental health facilities.
		Prison massacres, dramatic protests, and violent guard abuse earn occasional news headlines, but the deplorable daily living conditions that are the plight of the great majority of the world's prisoners pass largely unnoticed.
		The prisoners were protesting inmate transfers to a new type of high-security prisons.
	hrw.org /advocacy/prisons/u-s.htm (1017 words)

	Superseding Indictment: U.S. v. Ahmed Abdel Sattar, Lynne Stewart, and Mohammed Yousry
		On August 16, 1999, Abdel Rahman's conviction was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and; on January 10, 2000, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear his case and his conviction thus became final.
		On or about May 26, 2000, STEWART submitted to the United States Attorney’s Oftice for the Southern District of New York the affirmation that she signed on May 16, 2000, in which she agreed to abide by the terms of the SAMs then in effect on Abdel Rahman.
		On or about June 15, 2000, during a telephone conversation with'another person, STEWART stated her concern that she would not be able to “hide” from the United States Attorney’s office the fact that she had issued the press release.
	news.findlaw.com /hdocs/docs/terrorism/uslstwrt111903sind.html (4323 words)

	United States of America - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A lawsuit was filed against the Florida prison authorities alleging that prisoners were repeatedly sprayed with pepper spray and tear gas while trapped in their cells, causing breathing difficulties, burning and skin blisters.
		In Unit 32 of Parchman Prison, Mississippi, nearly 1,000 prisoners, many severely mentally ill, were reportedly confined to insect-infested, insanitary cells for between 23 and 24 hours a day and were not allowed fans or sufficient water despite extreme summer heat.
		He pardoned four condemned prisoners whom he believed had been tortured into confessing to crimes they did not commit, and commuted the death sentences of 167 others on the grounds that the system that sentenced them was flawed.
	web.amnesty.org /report2004/usa-summary-eng (3105 words)

	United States of America
		In January, Sheikh Omar Abd al-Rahman was sentenced to life in prison for plotting a series of bombings and assassinations that prosecutors said was intended to force the United States to end its support for the governments of Israel and Egypt.
		On other church-state fronts, unlike the virtually united front presented by the Jewish community in opposing proposals for a constitutional amendment, the community was split with respect to the issues of vouchers and "charitable choice".
		That law allows religious organizations to become state contractors for provision of block-granted, public-assistance programmes without, in the view of most Jewish groups, providing for the kind of safeguards necessary to ensure that direct-service providers are hired on a non-discriminatory basis, and that government funds are not used for sectarian purposes.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive1/usa/usa.htm (20080 words)

	96-5208 -- Traynor v. Federal Bureau of Prisons -- 12/03/1997
		The district court denied the writ, finding Traynor had not advised the sentencing court that his guilty plea was conditioned on his attorney's assurance that his federal and state sentences would run concurrently, and, in fact, no mention whatsoever was made of his anticipated state sentence during the plea hearing.
		If he had been sentenced on his federal plea before the state took him into custody, he would have been placed in federal custody to begin serving his sentence and the Governor's order that his state sentence run concurrently with his federal sentence would have caused the sentences to run concurrently.
		As it happened, however, Traynor had already been taken into state custody when he was sentenced in federal court, and the federal court was obligated to return him to state custody pursuant to the writ by which he was delivered to federal court for sentencing.
	www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/1997/12/96-5208.htm (1084 words)

	Open Letter: President Mandela
		As my president, and a man of integrity, compassion and principle, as well as one of the world's most renowned ex-political prisoners, I am hoping that with your appeal to President Clinton, the issue of COINTELPRO, Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War, may be exposed and examined.
		It is only logical for people to speculate and worry that they too could wind up buried and perhaps forgotten in prison, because of their activism for justice, freedom, equality and dignity for all.
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	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/1998-March/001518.html (1028 words)

	Amnesty International 1998 Annual Report on United States of America (the)
		There were further reports of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in prisons and jails, including the abusive use of restraints such as specially designed chairs with arm and leg shackles (four-point restraint chairs), which completely immobilize the prisoner.
		In Utah, mentally ill inmates in state prisons were reportedly held in such chairs for several hours or even several days.
		Sheriff Joseph Arpaio replied to Amnesty International in October stating, among other things, that any instances of excessive force were adequately dealt with by the jail authorities, and defending the use of the restraint chair and stun devices.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar98/amr51.htm (2553 words)

	AEGiS: United States of America
		Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
		During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions.
		The Task Forces are a network of AIDS Health Fraud Task Forces throughout the United States of America has developed a proactive approach to combat these fraudulent product/treatment promotions affecting people with HIV/AIDS and their partners, family, and friends.
	www.aegis.com /countries/us.html (8904 words)

	United States Department of Justice
		In his one-year anniversary speech, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales stressed the Department's commitment to protecting America's children from online sexual exploitation crimes by announcing Project Safe Childhood.
		This nationwide initiative, involving efforts by federal, state, and local law enforcement officials, formally began on May 17, 2006.
		WASHINGTON — Medtronic Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $40 million to settle civil allegations that its Medtronic Sofamor Danek division (MSD) paid kickbacks to doctors to induce them to use MSD’s spinal products, the Justice Department announced today.
	www.usdoj.gov (391 words)

	List of U.S. state prisons
		This is a list of U.S. state prisons (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories):
		U.S. Department of Justice: Prison and Parole Information
		Directory of Historic Prisons of the United States of America & Canada
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_u_s__state_prisons.html (76 words)

	World Prison Brief of the International Centre for Prison Studies - North America
		Home World Prison Brief North America USA - State by State
		(789,001 in local jails at 30.6.2005, c.1,113,000 in state prisons at 31.12.2004, 109,498 in federal prisons at 31.12.2004)
		(94.7% in local jails at 30.6.2005, c.112% in state prisons at 31.12.2004, 155.7% in federal prisons at 31.12.2004)
	www.kcl.ac.uk /depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/north_america_records.php?code=190 (151 words)

	Governments on the WWW: United States of America
		State of Montana Office in Taipei, China (Republic)
		U.S. Misssion to the United Nations in New York
		U.S. Misssion to the United Nations in Vienna
	www.gksoft.com /govt/en/us.html (2079 words)

	United States of America
		United States of America ;Government Web sites and Other Institutions
		This file contains all the official U.S. Governmental Official Web sites including those on Foreign Countries.
		It also contains web sites for political parties, states, and other institutions.
	www.ilusa.com /links/us_govenment_websites.htm (1569 words)

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