But she dismissed re-opening the Aberdeen and Inverness female prison facilities, saying many of the women in Cornton Vale had acute physical and mental problems.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is adding nearly 23 megawatts of on-site solar-generated power at five state prison facilities in southern California.
Two years ago, a special three-judge federal court in California found that overcrowding and staffing shortages have overwhelmed prison medical facilities.
This could mean that he is sent to a prison with better medical facilities or wheelchair access, she suggested.
But inspectors found the prison does not have the facilities to care for these patients.
Inmates - or rather 'guests', as the Dubai prison chief has insisted they should be called - will be housed in double rooms with "televisions, proper toilets, central air conditioning and other top class facilities", prison chief Brigadier Abbas Ali told the BBC.
But the joint report by prison and police inspectors concluded custody facilities in the West Midlands area were "positive in many respects".
Wackenhut, which describes itself as a world leader in this growing industry, has already won contracts to manage more than fifty prison, detention and mental health facilities in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
So rather than just tackling the gangs, Sao Paulo's state government needs to treat the underlying causes: the lack of training and supervision of prison staff, and the overcrowding and poor facilities in jails.
Since being arrested at her home in Cupertino, CA in December 2010, she was denied bail and held in maximum security facilities for the majority of her time in prison.
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Despite readier access to medical services than in other prisons, not all inmates prefer incarceration at the six Federal Medical Centers operated by the prison bureau, where many live under even greater restrictions than at typical facilities.
While the Obama administration continues efforts to shutter Guantanamo's detention facilities, moving most of the 183 detainees to a federal prison in Thomson, Illinois and resettling others to third party countries, an honest appraisal of the threat posed by its detainees, past and present, is in order.
Mr Ford also confirmed that Northern Ireland's high security prison at Maghaberry, near Lisburn, will be reconfigured to become three separate facilities dealing with different categories of offenders.
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By creating an entity called a taxable REIT subsidiary (TRS), the companies can separate the operational side of their private prison management from the real estate side of owning and generating income from correctional facilities.
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The powerful prison guards union, for example, bloats the budgets of state-run facilities, whereas companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CXW) and The Geo Group, Inc. (GEO) hold a pricing advantage by being able to pay guards non-union wages.
Rick Buehler, head of staff training at the Topeka prison where Esmie is likely to serve her time, says there are no separate facilities for minors there.
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In Germany, each of the sixteen federal states administers its own prison system and supervises adult and juvenile offenders both in detention centers and in correctional facilities .
In another decision that was also unanimous, the Supreme Court decided to give more room to prison officials, more deference to them in deciding which prisoners should go into supermax facilities.
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