*I agree that we need to be descriptive, as a great deal of Wikipedia is. I have held off editing the main page because I thought it more useful to have a conversation here first than the edit war that is in danger of developing. Being bold is not always the best way to make progress. It is not OR to find RS for the arrangements in individual countries, as I was able to do, and on which I based my remarks above. They can serve perfectly well and legitimately as the basis for a descriptive summary of the differences, which is wholly legitimate in the introduction. Please see WP:OR. Nor should we simply expect to copy a definition from somewhere, and I do not think that there is actually any dispute as to what a federal prison is. This does not seem to me a constructive discussion, and it is making a mockery of the AfD process. We are supposed to be making Wikipedia better.