List Of U.S. Federal Prisons
This is a list of United States federal prisons managed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
The Bureau of Prisons divides facilities into various security levels ranging from ADX Maximum Security (supermax), through High, Medium, Low, and Minimum, to Community Corrections Centers. Examples are the ADX facility in Florence, Colorado; High security such as Lewisburg and Atlanta, and numerous other lower level facilities throughout the United States. A list of all the various facilities within the BOP system is at BOP website.
Although the more common BOP facilities mentioned in the media are the High and Medium ones, the minimum-security facilities, commonly referred to as Federal Prison Camps, are usually the most famous ones.
Federal prison camps are now more commonly referred to as Federal Prison Camps ("FPC") or Satellite Prison Camps ("SPC"). The FPCs are usually stand-alone facilities that are self-contained and, more often than not, found adjacent to a military or other government installation. The SPC is usually co-located with a higher security BOP facility (ADX-High) and is designed to provide the workforce to assist in maintaining the infrastructure of the entire facility—providing landscaping, repair services, and a host of other daily duties.
This list does not include military prisons, state prisons, jails, or prisons operated under contract to BOP by private companies or local governments. It also does not include detention centers and facilities and processing centers run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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