This is a guide to a prison. In the United States, the total number of 1566 State Prisons, 102 Federal prisons, 2,850 Local Jails, 1550 local juvenile correctional facilities, 82 Indian country jails, military prisons, civil confinement centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons located in other US territories. We will do our best to cover each of these facilities in our articles under this tag. Read about every possible state, federal, local, and military prisons here.