ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses some of the questions by addressing some special needs populations. It discusses the facilities that have been and will be constructed or repurposed to house offenders in the populations. The chapter focuses on states with larger death row populations that house those inmates in separate buildings on the prison grounds. It also discusses prison hospice programs that are run separately from the prison hospital or infirmary. The death row facilities in three states, namely Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, as an example of the conditions found in other institutions throughout the United States. Good behavior, educational attainment, or community outreach is rewarded with privileges, such as family visitation, or less restrictive conditions of confinement, such as confinement in a dormitory-type setting rather than in single, isolated cells. The chapter concludes with segregated institutions for mentally ill offenders, who are often known by the public at large as the "criminally insane.".
