The Correctional System Vocabulary

Jails, prisons or other places of incarceration by government officials.

• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Correctional Facility
• Department of Corrections

Governmental agency tasked with overseeing the incarceration of all individuals convicted of crimes within a certain jurisdiction.

• Correctional Facility
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Department of Corrections

Governmental agency created in 1930 to manage and regulate all federal penal and correctional institutions.

• Department of Corrections
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Correctional Facility

Confinement or imprisonment of an individual in a jail or prison for a crime.

• Incarceration
• Probation
• Parole

Correctional supervision of an offender within the community rather than imprisonment in jail or prison.

• Parole
• Incarceration
• Probation

Period of conditional, supervised release from prison or jail to serve the remaining portion of an inmate's sentence in the community.

• Probation
• Incarceration
• Parole

Individual convicted of a crime and admitted into custody for their crimes.

• Incarceration
• Inmates
• Probation

Convicted individuals usually less than 18 years.

• Psychiatric Inmates
• Juvenile Inmates
• Sex Offender Inmates

Convicted individuals deemed mentally unfit.

• Juvenile Inmates
• Psychiatric Inmates
• Sex Offender Inmates

Convicted individuals who have committed a crime involving a sexual act.

• Sex Offender Inmates
• Juvenile Inmates
• Psychiatric Inmates