Prisons by country

Operation of federal detention centres was also privatised at a time when asylum seekers began to be mandatorily detained in Australia.

Thus, states have the primary role, responsibility and authority to change the current prison laws, rules and regulations.

[2] In March 2011, there were 3,405 persons incarcerated in Estonia, and the number of prisoners per 100,000 residents were 254, which is the third highest rate in the EU.

Prisoners can rent flat-screen televisions, sound systems, and mini-refrigerators with the prison-labor wages that they can earn—wages range between 4.10 and 7.3 Euros per hour (US$5.30 to $9.50).

[5] Finnish prison reform had led to the decrease and extremely low incarceration rates that the country now experiences.

This model focuses more on the humane treatment of prisoners and due process in regard to courtroom proceeding.

They have expanded their alternative programs to keep more citizens out of a formalized jail setting in hopes to avoid offenders re-offending and keep recidivism rates low.

In recent years Finland has made moves to increase the length of its prison sentences, which are some of the shortest in the world.

As a result of the closures, a higher number of prisoners will be required to share cells and electronic tagging will become a favoured option during sentencing procedures for people convicted of a crime/s.

According to Ilya Shablinsky, a member of the presidential human-rights council who audited her prison, conditions where close to those of a “slave labour”.

[20] The 52 penitentiaries (often known as prisons) in Canada are operated by the federal government, and are for those who have been sentenced to serve more than 2 years of custody.

As with prisons, some jails have different wings for certain types of offenders, and have work programs for inmates who demonstrate good behavior.

[23] Unlike most state prisons, a jail usually houses both men and women in separate portions of the same facility.

Some jails lease space to house inmates from the federal government, state prisons or other counties as a revenue-raising method.

In 2005, a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 62 percent of people in jails have not been convicted, and are awaiting trial.

Published in the Corrections Today journal, the study also found that stress was found to be higher than that of a comparable sample of police officers, while alcoholism and divorce rates were higher for correctional officers than for the general US population.