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Terre Haute United States Penitentiary uses a Special Confinement Unit to separate Federal death sentenced inmates. This unit gives a safe, secure, and humane confinement for inmates sentenced for execution by the federal courts. These male inmates were transferred from other facilities, like state and federal prisons, for engagement in the Special Confinement Unit. Terre Haute USP opened this SCU on July 13, 1999.

While the other divisions of prisons are important too, a maximum security prison, also known as administrative segregation, is the most important prison available. If inmates are being held at a maximum security prison, they are most likely at high risk for altercations with other inmates. Inmates considered high risk are immediately placed in a secure wing with more rules and supervision. These prisons are restricted segregation, which involves a twenty-three hour cell lock for troubled inmates. The extra hour in the schedule is used for a thirty minute lunch and a thirty minute yard time.

Segregated housing not only gives an inmate time to reflect, it also gives them time to feel psychotic thoughts, hopelessness, and regret. These situations are dangerous because of the label a prison can get if a suicide is carried out inside a segregated housing unit. Most suicides happen when an inmate is punished with segregated housing. Inmates feel like there is no way out and drive themselves to insanity. Not all segregated housing leads inmates to depression or suicide.

When determining which inmate goes into which housing branch, judges use a point system. This helps federal law employees to determine who goes to which facility and which housing unit they deserve. Another method to determine housing is the admission committees. In prisons, multiple people come together to determine which housing unit an inmate belongs in. People like the case manager, psychologist, and social worker have a voice in what their inmate deserves.

For minimum security, a male must be between zero and eleven points, while a female must be between zero and fifteen. If a male has between twelve and fifteen points and a woman has sixteen to thirty points, then they are sent to a low security facility. Since medium security prisons are for men only, men must have between sixteen and twenty-three points on their record. Men with twenty-four points or higher and women with thirty-one points or higher are sent to maximum security prisons to serve their time. Administrative Segregation prisons contain males and females who have reached their maximum amount of points.