Federal prison
Federal prisons in the United States are prisons operated by the US central government as opposed to those that exist at the state , county , or township level.
In 2006, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, created in 1930, oversaw 102 federal prisons, each designed for four different security levels: Minimum, Low, Medium, and High. In February 2015 there were around 210,000 prisoners in federal prisons. This corresponds to around 7.2% of all around 2,801,000 American inmates.
Prison sentences in these federal prisons get those offenders who against a federal law have violated (eg due to serious drug trafficking or economic crime ), or those criminals who have committed a crime against federal employees (about the killing of an FBI -Agenten).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Bureau of Prisons: Total Federal Inmates: 210,317 (statistics with daily updated figures), accessed on February 5, 2015.
- ↑ Bureau of Justice Statistics: Correctional Populations in the United States, 2013 (data as of December 31, 2013), accessed February 5, 2015.