About 100 of the inmates are assigned to work outside the prison wall.
(Inmates are assigned not only to the furniture factory but also to kitchen, landscaping, and janitorial duty).
During this 60-day period, inmates are assigned to two-person cells based on whether they are black, white, Asian or "other".
A hunger strike in July, which involved 6,600 inmates at its peak, ended after the department agreed to consider adjustments in the way inmates are assigned to the state's three security housing units, where they are held in tightly controlled conditions that minimize human contact.
Rather, he says, the higher numbers appear to stem from the process by which inmates are assigned to correctional facilities, a behind-closed-doors task usually carried out by prison administrators.
Although he introduced methadone detoxification programs and set up legal libraries in the jails, amid fiscal constraints he fought federal court orders that no more than one inmate be assigned to a cell and that the ill-equipped Manhattan House of Detention, then known as the Tombs, be closed.
Usually, each prison inmate is assigned one particular prison officer as his or her primary contact, equivalent to the primary nurse system in health institutions.
The majority of the new inmates in Alcatraz were assigned to the second tier of B- Block.
Shortly after leading the extermination of the Jewish inmates in Sajmište, Andorfer and Enge were assigned to different Security Police assignments.
