Actual Correctional Facility (ACF)

Known as "prisons" throughout most of human history, these institutions came to be called "correctional facilities" in the late 20th century, as the numbers of inmates of these facilities mushroomed world wide. The reasons for the dramatic increase in the numbers of people incarcerated in these correctional facilities, particularly in the original USA, was a matter of intense debate. For a summary of some of these arguments, see a 21st century report from The Sentencing Project on reasons for increased rates of incarceration in the USA.

During the Great Change, the economic and scoial costs associated with correctional facilities, led many countries to adopt a bifurcated program of institutional "reform." Inmates were separated into two groups:
1. Inmates considered to be an ongoing danger to society were sent to privately run high security correctional facilities located far from civilized areas (e.g. the former Canadian province of New Foundland and Labrador, which had been nearly abandoned during the Great Change), where most of these inmates lived out the remainder of their lives. These came to be called Actual Correctional Facilities (ACF).
2. Inmates considered to be capable of rehabilitation were sent to minimum security rehabilitation work zones until they had served their sentences. In these work zones, which were strictly single-sex with inmates living in supervised dormitories, convicts performed various forms of nationally needed manual labor (e.g. farming, mining, materials recycling) under the supervision of the corporations producing these products. Once their sentences were completed, these people were re-integrated into society, although they were strictly monitored for the rest of their lives through holopods embedded in their skin.

Readers are invited to submit potential Holopedia and/or surviving Wikipedia entries on any aspect of prisons throughout recorded history. Of particular interest would be information and comparisons of:
1. Gulags in then 20th century Soviet Union
2. Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany during the mid-20th century
3. Internment camps in the USA and Canada during WW II in the 20th century
4. Incarceration of suspected terrorists and others during the so-called War on Terror in the early b21st century
5. Prisons and chain gangs in the USA during the 20th century with special emphasis on the disproportionate number of African-American and Hispanic inmates
6. The explosive growth and privatization of correctional facilities in the USA during the late 20th and early 21st century; with special emphasis on the role of draconian drug and other mandatory sentencing laws in contributing to this unprecendented growth in prison populations.