What type of criminals are placed in a Federal prison?

Question

Hey Guys,

What type of criminals are placed in a federal prison and what dangers can this bring onto the community where the prison is being created?

- Soulaira

Answer 1

People that break the federal laws. Escapies are a threat to every community.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Presumably they are talking about building a prison in your community, and you want to know how safe you are going to be after it is built.
All modern prisons classify inmates according to many factors, one of which is risk of escape. Based upon this classification, a prison may be a maximum security facility, a medium security facility or a minimum security facility.
Inmates who are at high risk of escape and who pose a threat to the community if they do escape, are housed in a maximum security prison. Inmates very rarely escape from a maximum security prison, so the risk to the community is small.
Inmates who are assigned to a minimum security facility may easily escape, but the threat they pose to the surrounding community is small (which is why they where classified as Minimum to begin with) so the threat of danger to the surrounding community is also small.
The problem arises when someone who should be classified higher is sent to a minimum security facility. Then the risk to the community may be real.

Answer 4

There's a broad statute that indicates what kind of people are placed in Federal Jails, and most of the time, it's Murderers, Rapists, and people deemed unfit to carry on in normal society.

Usually, communities are polled before a potential threat is placed in one of it's jails, but lately that doesn't seem to happen, and those people that finish their time tend to go back to the same types of behaviour that sent them there in the first place.

The implications of including criminals into otherwise "safe" enviroments are well known to law enforcement officers, and they try not to relocate those people to low crime areas, but evey now and then, it happens, and usually something tragic happens afterwards.

Life is unavoidable.

Answer 5

Most of the people in federal prison are white collar crime. Or some military offenders like in Levenworth.

Answer 6

The ones that break Federal Laws.

Interstate truck hijacking
postal crimes,
bank robbery
conterfieting

and basicly all the other crimes that are inforced by Federal Law enforcement officers or that are tried in Federal courts.

Answer 7

Usuaslly white collar criminals who commit a felony. Tax evaders, insider trading, and those jerk offs from Enron. The effect on the community should be positive. It would create a good amount of employment opportunities to your area.

Answer 8

Anyone convicted of a crime in a federal court.

http://www.bop.gov/inmate_locator/inmate_differences.jsp

Not all of them are white collar, by the way. The Bureau of Prisons operates facilities at all levels, from unfenced minimum security facilities to maximum security facilities.

Answer 9

People that break Federal Laws.

Answer 10

People who break federal laws. They can range from non-violent, so-called white collar crime, to kidnapping across state lines, to bank robbery, to treason... anything really. If it is a supermax facility, it is likely the more violent offenders.