US prison

According to statistics, sitting in US prisons for more than 2, 2 million Americans and one in five prisoners in the world - a US citizen. Their content annually manages to treasury nearly $ 60 billion. Today we will go to several US prisons and see the conditions in which prisoners are kept.




That such a thing happened in the past year:
Court of Riverside County, California, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, 13-year-old Joseph Hall, who was previously convicted of the murder of his father, the leader of the local neo-Nazis Jeffrey Hall. This November 1, 2013 the AP news agency reported.
Hall will serve his sentence in a juvenile detention facility, as urged by the prosecution. According to the agency, the teenager will become the youngest prisoner in this institution.
Lawyers for the boy asked to send him to a rehabilitation center near the house. His mother, Leticia Neal, told television channel NBC, which at the center at least he could get a good education and would be in a healthy emotional atmosphere. Count on parole teenager can no earlier than seven years.
Hall was found guilty of the murder of his father in January 2013, after which the court had to decide exactly where the boy will serve his sentence. The main task of the investigators was to determine whether the murder was deliberate. As a result, the court found evidence of guilt Hall that he hid the gun under his bed and cried when the police arrived, and a few days before the crime told his sister about his plans.
32-year-old Jeffrey Hall was killed in May 2011. According to police, the teenager shot his father when he was asleep drunk in bed. Later, the teenager told law enforcement authorities that went on the offense, because the parents were going to get a divorce and he was afraid to face a choice with any of them stay.
Witnesses claim that the boy was very aggressive: beat their sisters and classmates, and even tried to strangle a teacher wire. It was also noted that his father, Jeffrey Hall, a neo-Nazi leader in California, often beat his son. In addition, they are often carried home house meeting right-wing radicals, who were accompanied by drunken partying.

















































In California six prisons, including "Kalipatriyu", which will be discussed below. All of them have special correctional department, formerly known as the department of "behavior change". These offices are designed for prisoners who violate the general rules.
Tower Guard is looking to enter the prison "Kalipatriya." The prison is surrounded by a fence with barbed wire, through which passes an electric current.



Prison guard watching over the prisoners during their stay in the open air prison "Kalipatriya».



The department "B" of the correctional department is 33 prisoners. In theory, 10 hours a week, prisoners spend outdoors when going to dinner, take a shower and walk in the yard. In this department prisoners staying 90 days and another 90 in the case of repeated punishment.



Prisoner Jason Brannigan talks to a reporter in the main Sacramento County Jail. Brannigan was a correctional department for having sprayed pepper spray interfered with other prisoners and ran naked through the cellblock.



Dzhoell Polanco in the correctional department prison in Corcoran, California on March 25. This is one of six prisons in California that have correctional department for particularly troubled inmates.



S. Fleming warden in a prison wing of the prison in Corcoran.



Guard tower overlooks the entrance to the prison Kalipatrii. The prison is surrounded by an electric fence.



The department «B» correctional department is 33 prisoners.



Prison warden M. Williams closes the door to the chamber Dzhoella Polanco in the correctional department prison in Corcoran. Correctional offices were created in order to erase class differences and help prisoners to control their anger, and drug and alcohol addiction.



The prison guard misses a number of cameras in the correctional department wing "B" Kalipatrii prison in which the 33 detainees.



Robert Lane read about Malcolm X in the chamber, which he shares with Derek Hardy (on the top bunk), in the department of correctional prison Kalipatrii. Hardy said that all day looking at the empty walls of the chamber, resulting in some prisoners to use of psychotropic drugs, and others - to the anger. "As it should help someone, if some of us turn to drugs? This is cruel and unusual punishment ».



A. Sanders looks through the bars in the door of his cell.



The correctional department wing «B» is 33 inmates.



Prison guard stands on the glass floor on the second floor of the control tower at Corcoran Prison.



Tony Curtis washes prisoner in his cell. Sometimes due to strict isolation of prisoners are not allowed to swim regularly in this department, so that they do it in the shells in their cells. Door with pale green to the right leads to one of the prison shower.



Inmate Terrell Wright (left) talks to a reporter in a prison wing of the prison Corcoran. Behind him are Lieutenant Stephen Smith and Captain Felix Vasquez. This program was concluded successfully suppress anger in this department in 2008.



The prisoners returned after an hour of exercise in the fresh air. In the foreground are the book allegedly used in the correctional department. Although these books are on display in the dining room, the journalists did a report about the prison, learned that no prisoner who is currently in prison are not held classes on anger management.



Belonging to a particular inmate group denoted that's the way - a piece of paper with the inscription on the door (photo inscription in English - "wimp»).





The inmate Christopher Drew (left) and his cellmate Keith Byron Hopkins waiting in the chamber of the correctional department in Corcoran.
Prisoners Keith Byron Hopkins (left) and his cellmate Christopher Drew sitting in his cell in the prison Corcoran. In today's correctional institutions, most classes are not held due to budget cuts and the isolation of prisoners. In some prisons, the California Correctional department generally closed, and those that remained is chaos and disorder. Some prisoners were let out into the fresh air for only a few minutes per week.



Prisoner Dzhoell Polanco talking with the prison warden through the door of the chamber in the detention wing of the prison Corcoran. Dzhoell last experienced carpenter, he could make repairs professionally parquet any complexity. But alas, fate decreed otherwise.



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