The prison, which can hold 1,100 inmates, will receive $72 a day for each federal inmate.

The population was 4,687 at the 2000 census, of which 3,679 were federal inmates.

They also have the largest contract to house federal inmates with serious, violent histories.

Generally speaking, information about federal inmates is readily accessible on the Internet.

Across the country, at least 31,000 state and federal inmates are serving terms of natural life.

It houses not only county prisoners but also state and federal inmates.

The officers supervised between 75 and 100 federal inmates.

It has been described as "the cruelest aspect of being a federal inmate."

In 2006, more than half of all federal inmates had been incarcerated for drug offenses.

In the years 1996-97 about 100 federal inmates were held in those restraints, one for two months.