"BOP operates 117 federal prisons tohouse approximately 178,000 federaloffenders, and contracts with privatecompanies and some stategovernments to house about another40,000 inmates. BOP calculates thenumber of prisoners that each BOPruninstitution can house safely andsecurely (i.e., rated capacity). GAOwas asked to address (1) the growth inBOP's population from fiscal years2006 through 2011 and BOP'sprojections for inmate population andcapacity; (2)...
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