The approximately amount that the prison was made for was 40. At times they had 100 inmates in the prison. Cells that were made for 4 people had 8 inmates in it at a time. They had to move to an armory to house the inmates because they were getting to many inmates. That’s when they decided, they would have to build another prison but bigger.
Andersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was known officially, held more prisoners at any given time than any of the other Confederate military prisons. It was built in early 1864 after Confederate officials decided to move the large number of Federal prisoners in and around Richmond to a place of greater security and more abundant food. During the 14 months it existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined here. Of these, almost 13,000 died from disease, poor sanitation, malnutrition, overcrowding, or exposure to the elements. The prison pen was surrounded by a stockade of hewed pine logs that varied in height from 15 to 17 feet.
The Director is the head of the Department and his main responsibility is to oversight and manages the Bureaus’s 114 institutions and maintains the safety and security of more than 193,500 inmates under the agency’s jurisdiction. The Central office Division consists of eight more offices with distinctive and individual duties. BOP is a structure
To date it is estimated that there are about 100,000 gang members located in the American corrections system with membership having risen greatly in the last 30 years. With gang codes that stress a culture of terror and
In specific, there has been a geographical clustering of incarceration. In most states, the huge majority of people admitted into prisons, particularly for drug crimes, have come from a comparatively few large urban areas within the states. Within many of these areas, in a single year, almost 4 percent of the young black men between the ages of 16 and 34 were removed into prison. This rate exceeded those of comparably aged white men by seven to ten times. The exceedingly high removal rate may contribute to family disruption and social organization of communities, thereby contributing to crime problems.
On a yearly basis, 12 million black men and women cycle in and out of nearly 3500 jails and prison (McKinnon & Bennett, 2005). In 2008, 785,556 individuals were incarcerated at midyear, up from an average of daily population of 403,000 in 1990. Of the 2008 population, 42.5% were white men and 39% were black men, even though of the total U.S. population only about 6% were black men while 28% were white men (McKinnon & Bennett, 2005). Socio-economic status is a major factor in recidivism among the homeless mentally ill population (Solomon and Draine, 1995). Many mentally ill ex-offenders have limited resources prior to going to prison and upon release.
Perhaps the most important building to the actual prison operation was the cellhouse. This building was composed of approximately six hundred cells, each divided into four cell blocks: A block, B Block, c block, and d block. Most “jailbirds” were housed in either the b block or c block during their incarceration. Each cell measured nine feet by five feet, with an eight foot ceiling overhead. Within each cell was a bed made of steel page 4 (topped by a mattress), a toilet, a shelf an electric light (which was not permitted to be used after
It stands at 0.743 percent. Local jails in the United States have a capacity of 86, 6782 inmates. The state prisons are known to have a capacity that is close to 1,140,500 prisoners. National prisons have a capacity of 1, 26,863 inmates. Of these inmates, 21.5% are pretrial prisoners, female prisoners make up 8.7%, 04.4 percent are juveniles and prisoners with a foreign origin make up 5.9% of the total number of inmates.
Immigration • The US admits about 660,000 legal immigrants per year (1998 figures). • The Immigration Act of 1990 allows for 480,000 immigrants with family in the US; 140,000 immigrants in needed employment fields; and the rest under per-country limits and diversity limits. • Foreign-born people accounted for 8% of the US population in the 1990 census; in the decades prior to 1930, the figure was 13%. • About 5 million illegal aliens reside in the US (1996 figures). • 55% of all illegal aliens come from Mexico.
As well as almost 1000 incidents of physical injury recorded in patients detained under the Mental Health Act 2007. The Mental health act was first legislated in 1983 and amended in 2007. The act entitles staff to use