Additionally, the Federal Transfer Center at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport was built especially to facilitate prisoner transport on JPATS.

Usually, the airline employs Boeing 737 aircraft to transport convicts and illegal residents of the United States for extradition.

This posed numerous problems, including danger to civilians, a backlog of marshals needed to perform such escorts, and a high taxpayer expense.

Inmates scheduled to fly are given little or no advance notice of their flight, to deter escapes and sabotage, and to prevent harm from outsiders.

[citation needed] Passengers aboard a flight are restrained with handcuffs as well as ankle and waist chains which are double- or even triple-locked.

[citation needed] Flight and seating arrangements are made carefully with the intent to separate inmates who may conflict with one another.

For example, members of rival prison gangs may be transported on different days to help reduce the risk of an in-flight incident.

[citation needed] Unlike the practice of most jails and prisons, male and female inmates fly together on the same planes.