U.S Correction system

By romero0018
  • First US penitentiary opens in Philadelphia

    First US penitentiary opens in Philadelphia

    Walnut street jail in Philadelphia is expanded. It becomes the country's first penitentiary, the objective was to give the incarcerated people time to change his behaviour without being in contact with the society.
  • Three prisons act

    Three prisons act

    Federal prison system which managed the first three federal penitentiaries (USP Leavenworth, USP Atlanta and USP McNeil Island)
  • Bureau of Prisons

    Bureau of Prisons

    Management and regulation of all Federal penal and correctional institutions

  • Sentencing Reform Act

    The objective was to increase consistency in federal sentencing. Established determinate sentencing and abolished parole.
  • Period: to

    Decrease of the inmates

    Before 2014 the inmates population was 217,000 in 119 institution and now the inmates population is 156,558 in 122 federal prisons.

  • sources

    “BOP: Historical Information.” Federal Bureau of Prisons, www.bop.gov/about/history. Accessed 5 May 2022.
    “H.R.5773 - 98th Congress (1983–1984): Sentencing Reform Act of 1984.” Congress.Gov | Library of Congress, www.congress.gov/bill/98th-congress/house-bill/5773. Accessed 5 May 2022.
    Sweet, Joni. “History of the US Prison System.” Stacker, 3 Nov. 2020, stacker.com/stories/4894/history-us-prison-system.