Federal Vs. Washington State

Federal Vs. Washington State

CJUS640-1004B-02
Corrections Management
Administration of Correctional Agencies
Professor Alexander
February 14, 2011
Phase 1 Task 2
Discussion Board
Sue Bell
Federal vs. Washington State

The factors that determine whether an offender is remanded to a state of federal facility
To be remanded to a federal facility an offender that has been convicted of a federal crime; violating a federal law within the territories of the United States will be confined to a federal prison. Any felony crime offenders from the District of Columbia are held in federal prisons; ascertained by National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997; the Bureau of Prisons is responsible for felony offenders. The Bureau of Prisons also will house some state inmates from other jurisdictions. (Federal Bureau of Prisons [BOP_D]. (n.d.)
Very few offenders actually spend time in the Washington State prisons. State of Department of Corrections: Washington State [DOC_C]. (2010) states in 2006 there were over 306,000 crimes reported and only 8,700 offenders were sent to a prison in Washington State. The majority of offenders’ plea out and take a lesser crime and plead guilty usually lowering their sentence and having a lesser crime placed on their records. Also described by DOC_C, (2010) "approximately 70 percent of convicted felons are confined in county jails rather than prisons before serving a period under DOC supervision in the community." This shows how overcrowded the county jails have become within the state. As of June 30, 2009, total inmates confined within the fifteen facilities in Washington State was 16,220; 688 were on Washington State Work Release Population; 523 rented out-of-state beds; and 1,196 rented in-state beds. (State of Washington Department of Corrections, 2009) Of these offenders, 17,118 were males and 1,509 were females.
Minimum basic training of new officers
All Washington State Department of Corrections new employees have to go...