Organized Control of Murder~ Witness - Death Behind Bars

A prison (from Old French prisoun)
is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Other terms are penitentiary, correctional facility, and jail (or gaol), although in the United States
"jail" and "prison" refer to different subtypes of correctional facility. Jails are conventionally institutions which form part of the criminal justice system of a county and house both inmates awaiting trial and convicted misdemeanants. Prisons form part of the criminal justice system of a state and only house convicted felons, usually for longer periods of time than jails.
(The U.S. Federal Government also has a system of jails and prisons).
Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime.
A criminal suspect who has been charged with or is likely to be charged with criminal offense may be held on remand in prison if he is denied or unable to meet conditions of bail, or is unable or unwilling to post bail.
A criminal defendant may also be held in prison while awaiting trial or a trial verdict. If found guilty, a defendant will be convicted and may receive a custodial sentence requiring imprisonment.
As well as convicted or suspected criminals, prisons may be used for internment of those not charged with a crime. Prisons may also be used as a tool of political repression to detain political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, and "enemies of the state",
particularly by authoritarian regimes. In times of war or conflict, prisoners of war may also be detained in prisons.
A prison system is the organizational arrangement of the provision and operation of prisons, and depending on their nature, may invoke a corrections system.
Although people have been imprisoned throughout history, they have also regularly been able to perform prison escapes.
The Federal Prison System existed for more than 30 years before the establishment of the Bureau of Prisons. Although its wardens functioned almost autonomously, a Department of Justice official in Washington was nominally in charge of Federal prisons, starting with the passage of the Three Prisons Act in 1891, which authorized the Federal Government's first three penitentiaries.
Until 1907, prison matters were handled by the Justice Department's General Agent. The General Agent was responsible for Justice Department accounts, oversight of internal operations, and certain criminal investigations, as well as prison operations. In 1907, the General Agent's office was abolished, and its functions were distributed among three new offices: the Division of Accounts (which evolved into the Justice Management Division); the Office of the Chief Examiner (which evolved into the Federal Bureau of Investigation); and the Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners, later called the Superintendent of Prisons (which evolved into the Bureau of Prisons).

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (often referred to operationally as the BOP)[1] is a federal law enforcement agency subdivision of the United States Department of Justice and is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system. The system also handles prisoners who committed acts considered felonies under the District of Columbia's law.
The Bureau was established in 1930 to provide more progressive and humane care for Federal inmates, to professionalize the prison service, and to ensure consistent and centralized administration of the 11 Federal prisons in operation at the time.
According to its official web site, the Bureau consists of more than 119 institutions, 6 regional offices, its headquarters office in Washington D.C.,
2 staff training centers, and 28 community corrections offices, and is responsible for the custody and care of approximately 207,872 Federal offenders.
Approximately 85 percent of these inmates are confined in Bureau-operated correctional facilities or detention centers.
The remainder are confined through agreements with state and local governments or through contracts with privately-operated community corrections centers,
detention centers, prisons, and juvenile facilities.
The Bureau is also responsible for carrying out all judicially mandated federal executions
(other than those carried out under military law)
in the United States,
and
maintains
the federal lethal injection chamber
in
Terre Haute, Indiana.