society." Federal prisons The Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice, is responsible for the administration of United States federal prisons. States and insular areas Imprisonment by the state judicial systems has steadily diminished since 2006 to 2012, from 689,536 annually to 553,843 annually. Military prisons Across the world, the U.S. military operates several detention facilities. At year-end 2019, military correctional authorities held about 1,200 prisoners of any sentencing status See also Decarceration in the United States Capital punishment in the United States Death in custody History of United States Prison Systems Religion in United States prisons Prison gangs in the United States Prisoner rights in the United States Prisoner suicide Prisoner abuse Social groups in male and female prisons in the United States United States incarceration rate Administration Federal Prison Industries, Inc. Inmate telephone system Conditions of confinement Prison Legal News Controversies Kids for cash scandal Prison advocacy groups November Coalition Prison Policy Initiative Related Parole in the United States Crime in the United States Law enforcement in the United States Penal labor in the United States Penal populism Civilian noninstitutional population Felony disenfranchisement in the United States Human rights in the United States#Prison system Race in the United States criminal justice system Race and the War on Drugs Racial profiling in the United States By state Prisons in California Incarceration in Florida Notes References . Further reading Books Alexander, Michelle (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press. Davis, Angela (2003). Are Prisons Obsolete?. Seven Stories Press. Enns, Peter K. (2016). Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World. Cambridge University Press. Gottschalk, Marie (2014). Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton University Press. Book Hardcover , eBook . Harcourt, Bernard (2012). The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order. Harvard University Press. Hinton, Elizabeth (2016). From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. Harvard University Press. Murakawa, Naomi (2014). The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. Oxford University Press. Selman, Donna and Paul Leighton (2010). Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Taibbi, Matt (2014). The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap. Spiegel & Grau. Wacquant, Loïc