CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Sensory Deprivation, Adx Florence
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Facilities and inmates are classified by security range: Female prisons fall in this category a lot because they do not show up. Level 5 (most secure, super max, penitentiary at florence, co) Only federal super max facility (florence, co) Any prison (state or federal) that exceeds maximum security prison standards is called a. Forty states have created prisons that exceed maximum security: only one federal but plenty of state. About 20,000 inmates are currently held in these super max prisons. Response to prison and jail overcrowding and rising costs. You just can"t beat inmate labor pennies an hour. Argue that private enterprise can build and run prisons as effectively as government, but at a lower cost to the taxpayers. Private facilities hold approximately 6% of all state prisoners and 15% of all federal prisoners. Guaranteed occupancy rates: private prisons will only come in if that city or town will sign contract of occupancy rate kft.
