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Corrections > Alaska adult corrections
Federal
Bureau of Prisons
A component of the U.S.
Department of Justice. With a few exceptions, only inmates
convicted of violating federal laws are sent to federal prisons
of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Individuals awaiting
trial for violating federal laws are also held in federal prisons.
(BOP prisons also house a few state inmates, but most inmates
convicted of violating state or local laws are sent to state
prisons or city or county jails.) This site includes yearly statistics,
BOP organization, and brief profiles of BOP institutions.
- Office of Research and Evaluation: Conducts policy analyses and evaluative and basic research studies, provides technical assistance, and reviews and processes research proposals.
- National Institute of Corrections (NIC). Provides training, technical assistance, information services, and policy/program development assistance to federal, state, and local corrections agencies. See Publications for numerous corrections-related reports and publications.
- UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries). UNICOR is the trade name for Federal Prison Industries, Inc., a self-sustaining enterprise (receiving no congressional appropriations) which employs federal inmates to produce and sell products and services to federal government agencies and federal contractors.
Other corrections-related
federal agencies
These agencies are also
components of the U.S. Department
of Justice.
- Office of the Pardon Attorney. Assists the President in the exercise of executive clemency as authorized under Article II, section 2, of the U.S. Constitution. All requests for executive clemency, which includes pardon, commutation, remission of fine, and reprieve, are directed to the Pardon Attorney for investigation and review.
- U.S. Parole Commission. Oversees the granting, denying, or revocation of parole for eligible federal offenders. The commission will be abolished on November 1, 1997 under the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which instituted mandatory sentencing for all offenders whose crimes were committed after November 1, 1987.