There are currently 192
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.
The below site shows where all the federal prisons are:
Federal Bureau of Prisons was created in 1930.
10.San Quentin Prison 9.Bang Kwang Prison 8.Rikers Island Prison 7.ADX Florence Supermax Facility 6.Alcatras Island Prison 5.La Sante Prison 4.Diyarbakr Prison 3.La Sabaneta Prison 2.Tadmor Prison 1.Carandiru prison
The two federal prisons in Alaska are FCI Edgecomb and FDC Honolulu, which is a contract facility in Hawaii where Alaskan inmates can be housed.
Do to security reasons you are not allowed to know the exact number of federal prisons.
The Federal Department of Corrections runs Federal prisons. The Federal Department of Corrections is a subdivision of the Judicial System in the United States.
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.
1. Yazoo federal complex
Federal prisons are safer for the inmate, however a federal sentence requires the inmate to serve 85% of the time. Most state prisons will parole at 50% time served depending on the crime
Yes Ozwald Maximum Security Prison is a prison that is part of the Federal Bureau of Prisons located in Nome, Alaska.There are no federal prisons located in the state of Alaska. Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a fictional maximum security prison in New York.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons serves several functions. It has the remit of providing progressive and humane care for Federal inmates and to professionalize the prison service.