Moving Images Relating to Federal Correctional Facilities and Their Prisoners, ca. 1980–ca. 2005

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Moving Images Relating to Federal Correctional Facilities and Their Prisoners, ca. 1980–ca. 2005

1980-2005

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6020954

This series consists of video recordings that document activities of the federal Bureau of Prisons pertaining to health issues (drugs and AIDS[acquired immune deficiency syndrome]) for inmates and correctional institution employees, the selection of prison locations, operating with reduced budgets, overcrowding, and model correctional facilities. Video recordings include Department of Justice figures such as Janet Reno and Jamie Gorelick, and Bureau of Prisons Directors Kathleen Hawk Sawyer and J. Michael Quinlan.

35 video cassettes

eng, Latn

National Archives at College Park

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SNAC Resource ID: 11675803

National Archives at College Park

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United States. Bureau of Prisons

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The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was created by the Act of May 14, 1930 (ch.274,- 46 Stat. 325) and signed into law by President Herbert Hoover. The mission of the Bureau of Prisons was to maintain secure, safe, and humane correctional institutions for individuals placed in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General; to develop and operate correctional programs that seek a balanced application of the concepts of punishment, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation; and provide, primarily through t...