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There are several. Alderson, West Virginia is one of the best known. Where are all womens federal prisons located. Also...there is a women's federal prison in Danbury, Ct. The Federal Bureau of Prisons website has information on all women's prisons.
Do to security reasons you are not allowed to know the exact number of federal prisons.
1. Yazoo federal complex
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The below site shows where all the federal prisons are:
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, approximately 50,000 women are released from state and federal prisons each year in the United States.
Federal Bureau of Prisons was created in 1930.
The Federal Department of Corrections runs Federal prisons. The Federal Department of Corrections is a subdivision of the Judicial System in the United States.
There are five separate categories of Federal prisons, excluding military prisons or facilities run by Immigration. There are 20 US Penitentiaries, 71 Federal Correctional Institutions, 6 Federal Prison Camps, 19 Federal Administrative Facilities, and 14 Federal Correctional Complexes.
There are over 70 State Prisons in New York. This does not count Federal Prisons of County Jails. Some like Rikers Island, Auburn and Sing Sing are infamous.Over 70 not counting Federal institutions and county jails.
State prisons are run by the state, criminals are placed in state prisons when the have broken only state laws. Criminals go to federally run prisons when they break federal laws.
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