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Federal Correctional Complex, Tucson

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Location
  
Tucson, Arizona

Status
  
Operational

Federal Correctional Complex, Tucson

Security class
  
High, medium and minimum-security

Population
  
2,500 (two facilities and prison camp)

Managed by
  
Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Correctional Complex, Tucson (FCC Tucson) is a United States federal prison complex for male inmates in Arizona. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.

The complex consists of two facilities:

  • Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson (FCI Tucson): a medium-security facility.
  • United States Penitentiary, Tucson (USP Tucson): a high-security facility with a satellite prison camp for minimum-security inmates.

    • History and facility

    About 520 employees are required to staff the entire federal complex with additional labor provided by the minimum-security camp. The opening of the U.S. Penitentiary in February 2007 worsened a local shortage of prison officers, drawing some staff away from the nearby state prison complex operated by the Arizona Department of Corrections, also on Wilmot Road.

    References

    Federal Correctional Complex, Tucson Wikipedia
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