Federal prisons are not facing the same overcrowding problems that are plaguing many state prison systems.
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In 2006, Chuckawalla Valley state prison installed a 1-megawatt photovoltaic array that included 6, 400 solar panels.
He was expected to be transferred back to the state prison in Michigan City, Ind.
Facts, oh, such as California state prison guards making three times the salaries of Texas state prison guards.
In 1999, Downey skipped another drug test and spent nearly one year in a state prison in Corcoran, California.
"He is eligible for probation, he is eligible for state prison, " she said.
Most people in state prison for drug offenses have no history of violence.
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One state prison has closed, and two more are on the chopping block.
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Hill was sentenced to death for the 1990 killing of Joseph Handspike, another inmate in a Georgia state prison.
He spent his 21st birthday in San Quentin State Prison for attempted robbery.
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While state prison populations have declined, mostly due to budget concerns, the federal inmate population continues to grow each year.
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He faced a minimum of one to three years, or as much as eight to 25 years in state prison.
Her boyfriend is now serving a life sentence without parole in the state prison for the murder, the Providence Journal reported.
Convicted in 2005 for swiping millions from Tyco International and was sentenced to 8 to 25 years in state prison.
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In the past 20 years the number of state prison inmates has risen from fewer than 80, 000 to more than 170, 000.
He had been housed since August 1999 in a substance abuse treatment facility at the Corcoran State Prison in central California.
An estimated 62 percent of female inmates in state prison and 56 percent in Federal prisons are parents of minor children.
Two years later, Ironwood state prison installed an identical solar photovoltaic system.
Dellapenta was ultimately sentenced to six years in a California state prison.
Officials say that within a week, he should be in state prison.
As for Holzer, she was released from her third stint in prison in June following eight years in a New York state prison.
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The US's original neo-Nazi prison gang, known simply as the Aryan Brotherhood, emerged in California's San Quentin State Prison during the late 1960s.
Holzer was convicted in 1979 of seven counts of grand larceny and as a result spent two years in a New York state prison.
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California officials suspended visitation and other "nonessential activities" at Centinela State Prison in Imperial County after an inmate was suspected of having swine flu.
Defense attorneys argued Monday for the lowest sentence of one to three years in state prison and asked that the judge not impose restitution.
They are no keener on a plan to reduce the state prison population by 20, 000 and the number of parolees by a similar number.
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In 1990, among all the prisoners from New York City released from state prison, a full 28% were convicted of another felony within three years.
Determinant sentence, meaning the legislature set a time frame upon conviction if, worst case scenario, the judge decides to send a person to state prison.
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice initiated the purchase of the Thomson Correctional Center, a now-empty state prison facility located in Thomson, Illinois.
At the end of her shift Goodwin, 38, will head back to her cell block at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, 25 miles west of Phoenix.
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