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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Prisons are state institutions inhabited by prisoners who have been sentenced to incarceration by the courts, usually for felonies.
The government of the United States continues to deny the existence of political prisoners inside the prisons and jails of this country.
The acquisition of prisons as a conscious economic development strategy for depressed rural communities and small towns in the United States has become widespread.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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These states used different approaches to address the problem: Banning privatization of state and local facilities: Louisiana enacted a moratorium on private prisons in 2001.
When the Washington State Legislative Budget Committee conducted this study, the state had no privately run prisons but was considering the feasibility of such.
Structured a process for obtaining health and mental health bed space estimates from representatives of various state prisons and constructed a forecast to be used in facility planning.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Germans were even rounded up in South-American countries and shipped to the United States to be held in prisons or internment camps.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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Alternative sentencing reduces crowding in state prisons and county jails by placing non-violent offenders in structured programs which do not jeopardize public safety.
Offenders in federal prisons are almost three times as likely as state prisoners to be incarcerated for a drug offense, according to a Department of Justice study released today.
Prisons hold inmates convicted of federal or state crimes; jails hold people awaiting trial or serving short sentences.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Something is very wrong with New York State's love affair with prisons and the legislature's redistricting plan helps to prevent New Yorkers from taking democratic action against it.
If successful, state prisons may become whistlestops on the campaign trails of the politically ambitious rather than repositories of citizens denied the essence of democracy!
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