Location Tallahassee, Florida Population 1,100 | Status Operational Phone +1 850-878-2173 | |
Security class Low-security (with adjacent administrative detention center) Managed by Federal Bureau of Prisons Address 501 Capital Cir NE, Tallahassee, FL 32301, USA | ||
The Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee (FCI Tallahassee) is a low-security United States federal prison for female inmates in Florida. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent detention center that houses administrative security level male inmates.
FCI Tallahassee is located 3 miles (4.8 km) east of downtown Tallahassee on US Highway 319.
2006 shootings
On June 21, 2006 at 7:42 a.m. local time, Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General agents attempted to arrest six correctional officers in connection to a corruption investigation into correctional officers trading drugs and other contraband for sex with female inmates. One of the officers, Ralph Hill, used a personal handgun and opened fire on the agents. He killed William "Buddy" Sentner, an agent with the DOJ Office of Inspector General. Hill was also killed. A lieutenant with the Federal Bureau of Prisons was injured in the shooting and transported to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.
The shooting began in the lobby of the building and moved into the courtyard near the US 319 highway. Federal officers were unarmed at the time and the officers were to have been unarmed as well. Michael Folmar, the FBI's special agent in charge in Jacksonville, said "This arrest situation was done in a manner to be very controlled ... where nobody would have any weapons, and we could take this down so there wouldn't be any violence, and this is exactly how it would be handled normally across the United States." The officers to be arrested, Alfred Barnes, Gregory Dixon, Alan Moore and E. Lavon Spence, were transported to Wakulla County Jail south of Tallahassee. Vincent Johnson, the last officer named in the indictment, was not involved in the sexual misconduct, but was alleged to have illegally influenced the prisoners to engage in the behavior.