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Understanding Prisons: Types, Security Levels, and Facilities in MN

Explore prisons, penitentiaries, and correctional facilities, with details on security levels, inmate supervision, and MN's adult and juvenile facilities.

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Understanding Prisons: Types, Security Levels, and Facilities in MN

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  1. Prisons

  2. Prisons • Also referred to as penitentiary and correctional facilities • People in prison are said to be incarcerated

  3. Penitentiary • Places of confinement to remove offenders from the environment and make them work, isolating them in cells • Were attacked as cruel and barbaric

  4. Correctional Institution • Places of confinement to reform offenders into law-abiding people who worked

  5. 1971-present • The rehab piece of it is vanishing • It’s about retribution, incapacitation, and deterrence

  6. Costs

  7. Security Levels • Super Max • Maximum • Medium • Minimum

  8. Super Max • The “worst of the worst” • Those who pose a threat to national security • Have individual cells • Are in lock down 23 hours a day • One hour exercise by themselves • Meals served through cell door • Every move is monitored by surveilance

  9. Maximum • Need to provide maximum internal and external supervision of inmates • High security perimeters, many check points inside • Inmates present serious escape risks or pose serious threats to themselves or others • Supervision is direct and constant

  10. Medium • Inmates present a moderate escape risk or may pose a threat to other inmates. • Supervision is still constant and direct but more work and program opportunities available

  11. Minimum • The goal is to return the inmate to a greater sense of responsibility and independence • Inmates not considered a serious risk to others. • Program participation typically mandated and geared to reintegrating them into society. • Access to the community is limited and under the supervision of staff members

  12. Prisons in MN • Adult Facilities • MCF-Faribault • MCF-Lino Lakes • MCF-Oak Park Heights • MCF-Rush City • MCF-St. Cloud • MCF-Shakopee • MCF-Stillwater • MCF-Willow River/Moose Lake (CIP) • Juvenile Facilities • MCF-Red Wing • MCF-Togo

  13. Faribault • Largest prison in MN – nearly 2000 inmates • Medium security (minimum outside the gates)

  14. Lino Lakes • Used to be a juvenile facility • Now houses adult males • Medium security • Most serious sex offenders are housed there

  15. Oak Park Heights • MN only maximum security prison • Doesn’t compare to Super Max, however • House inmates from other states also

  16. Shakopee • Women’s facility – only one in the state (500+ inmates) • Houses all levels of offenders • No perimeter wall or fence • Chemical dependency treatment unit, parenting unit and education unit • Once a month kids can stay with mom • Cosmetology, office support classes, other college classes offered • Service dog training program (service dogs)

  17. What is the difference between a prison and a jail? • Jails – county facilities • Keep adults while they wait for trial • Punishing them for less than a year once they have been convicted

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