Federal prison

Federal prisons in the United States are prisons that are operated by the U.S. central government as opposed to those that exist at the state, county or municipal level.

In 2006, had in 1930 created the Federal Bureau of Prisons belong to the supervision of 102 federal prisons, a variety of security levels; around 185,000 prisoners were in federal prisons in 2006. This represents approximately 8.5 percent of all American inmates.

Prison sentences in these federal prisons get those offenders who have violated a federal law (for example, for serious drug trafficking or economic crime ), or those criminals who have committed a crime against federal employees (such as the killing of an FBI agent ).

• Prison system
• Criminal Law (United States)