By 1973, the jail employed 220 residents and housed both male and female offenders.

But I think a lot of people in the community think we house only low-level offenders.

The current conditions add urgency to the need to house young offenders in separate facilities, and not treat them as adults.

Orders have experimented in the last decade with how to house, monitor and occupy offenders, he said.

In 1963, before racial desegregation occurred, the facility housed white second offenders.

The camp was used to house "minimum-custody-type improvable male offenders," who had no more than one year to serve.

The city would use it to house minor offenders nearing the end of their sentences and allowed to go to work.

The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security offenders.

The institution is modernized and remains in operation, though a few of the oldest buildings are now used to house juvenile offenders.

It was the first private prison in the United Kingdom to house young offenders.