Tocco spent the last 16 years of his life in various federal penitentiaries.

There were three federal penitentiaries and parole was granted by a parole board at each institution.

Martin Querns has experience working in several state detention centers and federal penitentiaries and is also from the ghetto like several of Oz's African American inmates.

This means that offenders sentenced to two years or more go to federal penitentiaries while those with lighter sentences go to provincial prisons.

Likewise, in federal penitentiaries there has been no corresponding increase in problems since parole was eliminated for federal crimes, according to the United States Bureau of Prisons.

Another of Fulton's important contributions was his partial reform of the bear-cage mentality in dealing with the inmates of federal penitentiaries which had existed under the previous Liberal administration.

Dorchester Penitentiary recently installed a wind turbine, making it just one of two federal penitentiaries in Canada with such a device.

Employees working at federal penitentiaries are designated as federal Peace Officers under Section 10 of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act[1].

He also researched the written records on all of the other U.S. federal penitentiaries.