Employees of the Federal Bureau of Prisons complete 200 hours of training during their first year on the job as well as additional training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. As of 2003 there were roughly 34,000 employees within the Bureau. Federal Prisons have come a long way throughout their history. read more
In many parts of America, particularly the South, there are more people living in prisons than on college campuses. As you can see in the map, states differ in the extent to which they spread their correctional populations out geographically. read more
Most United States Penitentiaries (USPs) are high-security facilities, which have highly secured perimeters with walls or reinforced fences, multiple and single-occupant cell housing, the highest staff-to-inmate ratio, and close control of inmate movement. read more