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Season Three Research Files
Episode Four
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates institutions of several different security levels to house a broad spectrum of offenders. Security levels are based on such features as the presence of external patrols, gun towers, security barriers, detection devices and the staff-to-inmate ratio. Each facility is placed in one of five groups of security -- minimum, low, medium, high, and administrative.
The real Metropolitan Detention Center is located in downtown Los Angeles. It is considered administrative because it handles a variety of security levels. The MDC would house pre-trial and holdover inmates, such as Salazar.
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