Even though the state and federal prison systems can sometimes hold some people for matching crimes, The state and federal prison systems are alike but there are many differences in which makes both systems very unique because the federal system usually has people incarcerated for extended periods of time and many people refer to the federal system to be associated with white collar criminals and state prisoners as blue collar criminals.
The state prison system has been in existence since the early 1800s with the building of Sing Sing state prison. Sing Sing state prison is one of the oldest state penitentiaries in existence today and is still in use. The state prison system is devised of a network of small prisons that hold most of the United States prison populations. Since the beginning of penitentiaries in each state growth has been a rising issue. Many states have to provide millions of dollars to their prison systems. The state of California has no choice than to create a large budget of over a billion dollars to provide food, staff, and other items for their prison system.
There are many types of state institutions in which contain different types of security levels. Three levels of security within their prisons. The state prison levels include level one minimum security, level two medium security, level three high security and a recently added in the last decade level four super maximum security. One type of institution is referred to as an open security facility in which has minimal staff. These types of institutions are made to harbor pre-release offenders often called half-way houses. Multi-level prisons are another form of institutions which can house two or four types of security levels within the same facility. In addition to having the many different security levels a facility also contains different sections. With having different sections a facility may contain a section for medical cases, transition offenders, administrative segregation and other types of sections.
There are many types of criminals that can be incarcerated within a state prison system that can include habitual offenders, sex-offenders, drug users, and or violent crime offenders. There are five state prison systems in which exist in today’s penitentiary systems and they are maximum-security prisons, close-high security prisons, medium-security prisons, and open security facilities. Variations between these five systems are common and uncommon because in a sense these five prison systems share the commonality of securing offenders under the states control. On the contrary, there are different types of policies and procedures in which each handles their offenders. Some of the prison systems are lenient and others are very strict as to how they deal with their offenders.
The original history of the federal prison system started back in the 1890s but it was not until 1930 that president Hoover signed a bill establishing a federal prison system that would actually start the building of actual federal facilities. The federal system had been relying on the state and local levels of government to house their prisoners. This served a huge purpose in the federal system because it would ease the payment of prisoners for being held at the state and local levels. The growth of the federal system continued to rise since the United States government created more federal laws with the times of bank robbery’s and white collar crimes. Within the federal prison system there are some security levels which classify prisoners and institutions as minimum, low, medium, high and administrative. The main type of criminal in the federal prison system today is a drug seller and or a political person. Many ex-political officials, law enforcement officials, judicial officials, major drug cartel offenders and immigrants who have crossed over the borders of the United States more than one time.
In conclusion, the state prison system and the federal prison system have the same concept which is keeping those who are accused and convicted in a court of law in the United States of America incarcerated and away from the public. Given the facts of rising crime in the United States today we can assume that there would be a larger growth in the institutions that our 50 states will operate.
