The inmates often have dormitory-style housing and lower staffing levels. Low-security prisons: Also in dormitory rooms, around 36% of the federal prison population are in low-security prison.

Organised crime gangs are flying illegal drugs into jails causing increased violence and a threat that needs to be taken ...

High Desert State Prison is about 1,576,000 square feet and can hold up to 4,100. offenders. It opened Sept. 1, 2000. Ely State Prison opened in July 1989 and has the ...

Corrections denied a request for the accompanying pre-transfer security levels of each inmate. Statewide, there are 1,750 currently unoccupied beds in max prisons, Puzzello said.

Last fall, Illinois emptied the maximum security prison at Stateville Correctional Center amid a lawsuit over the aging prison’s deteriorating condition. But as state lawmakers negotiate the ...

LEWISBURG — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees will be housed at the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has confirmed.