Talk:List of U.S. federal prisons

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[edit] Proposed Merger

I have proposed that this page should be merged with Federal Bureau of Prisons, because all of the prisons on this list fall under the Bureau's control. --TommyBoy 05:05, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

A discussion on the proposed merger is pending on the talk page for Federal Bureau of Prisons. --TommyBoy 12:32, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Three comments on Talk:Federal Bureau of Prisons (including my own) opposed this merge, so I have deleted the merge tags on both pages and removed the proposal from Wikipedia:Proposed mergers. | Klaw ¡digame! 22:28, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] can this be expanded

I wouldnt venture an opinion on merging, but this list is very austere. Can the links be expanded? Thanks Tazinnm 05:47, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Orcafound 06:50, 10 February 2007 (UTC)== Making the Page more useful ==

As a citizen of a country without a federal government I visited this site to find out what a Federal Prison was as I had never before heard the term. The site gives a list of facilities but not the information I was seeking.

If anyone has the knowledge/interest an expansion would be very appreciated. In the United States there are 50 states each state has its own laws,rules,regulations,if you break any of these you are tried by that state Justic System and inprison in that state. Then we have a seperate Government in Our Capital call the Federal Government which has the power under our Constituion to creat laws, rules and regulations that all citizens must abide by outside of the law's of the individual state in which he or she lives in. The Federal Government has its own Prisons,Correctional Centers, Immigration Prisons (I call them that, they call them holding centers). If you violate any of the Federal Laws,Rules,Regulations, you are inprison by the Federal Government in one of its prisons. You may live in New York City and commit a Federal Crime and be inprisoned in California. It is all up to the Federal Bureau of Prison where they place you. If you commit a State Crime you are placed in a State Prison which usually is not far from your home. In the Federal System you may be placed as far away as thousand's of miles, making it inpossible for you to see your family or love one's until your release. One other thing amount prisoners it is a well know fact that to do state time is short time but hard time. To do Federal Time it is Good time but Long time. Most States do not give prison time for non violent offense 10 years. But the Federal Government does. It starts you off with 10 years. Most Countries outside of the United States have one Set of Law for all the people to follow. Here we have Town Laws, County Laws, City Laws, State Laws, and Then Federal Laws. This is only an example of the many laws the average person here in the United States must have knowledge of to stay out of any of there prisons. Now you can understand why so many of our people are in prison than any other nation in the world. No one can remeber all the laws they must abide by so every person breaks one law,rule,regulation of one of the above bodies every minute of the day. I hope this helps. By Orcafound