Federal Prison Law and Legal Definition
Federal prisons are prisons which are managed and run by the U.S. federal government. On the other hand, state prisons are prisons managed by the state, county or local authorities. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is responsible for the centralized administration of federal prisons. Federal prison inmates are people who have been convicted for violation of a federal law.
Legal Definition list
- Federal Preservation Officer
- Federal Power Marketing Agency
- Federal Power Marketing Administration
- Federal Power Commission [FPC]
- Federal Power Act
- Federal Prison
- Federal Prison Industries, Inc. [FPI]
- Federal Private Sector Mandate
- Federal Probation Service
- Federal Property
- Federal Public Defender Organization
Related Legal Terms
- Accompanying the Federal Government Outside the United States
- Active Voters [Federal Elections]
- Actuarial Documents [Federal Crop Insurance Corporation]
- Actuarially Appropriate [Federal Crop Insurance Corporation]
- Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
- Administrative Governor [Federal Reserve System]
- Advisory Councils of Federal Reserve System
- Agent [Federal Elections]
- Aggregate Federal Share of Compensation
- Allotment from Federal Employee
