FCI Allenwood Low: Visiting, Mail, RDAP and Immigration

By Elizabeth Franklin-Best, Esq., and Christopher Zoukis, JD, MBA

FCI Allenwood Low at a glance

FCI Allenwood Low is a low-security federal prison for men on U.S. Route 15 in central Pennsylvania, holding 1,037 men as of September 2026. It is one of three prisons on the Federal Correctional Complex at Allenwood, with FCI Allenwood Medium and USP Allenwood, and the only one of the three that opens its visiting room on Fridays. It is also an immigration hearing site.

Official name	FCI Allenwood Low · also LSCI Allenwood
BOP code	ALF · complex ALX
Security level	Low; men
Population	1,037 (as of September 2026)
Visiting	Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and federal holidays, 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Inmate mail	Full committed name and register number · FCI Allenwood Low · Federal Correctional Institution · P.O. Box 1000 · White Deer, PA 17887
Send money	Lockbox · Western Union (code city FBOP, DC) · MoneyGram (receive code 7932)
Phone	570-547-1990 · Fax 570-547-0343
Street address	Route 15, 2 miles north of Allenwood, Allenwood, PA 17810
Judicial district	Middle District of Pennsylvania
BOP region	Northeast
Designated capacity	988
Housing	Four dormitory-style units
Special Housing Unit	Yes
Medical care level	2
Mental health care level	2
RDAP	Yes
UNICOR	Office-furniture and seating factory
Camp	None

The Low is one of the federal prisons in Pennsylvania and falls under the Bureau’s Northeast Region. Because it is an immigration hearing site, the way home for a man who is not a U.S. citizen runs through an immigration courtroom as well as a unit team.

Which Allenwood prison is FCI Allenwood Low?

FCI Allenwood Low is the complex’s low-security prison, code ALF, which the Bureau also calls LSCI Allenwood. Three separate prisons share the complex, each with its own post office box and telephone number, and an Inmate Locator result names which of them holds a man. Our Pennsylvania guide lists the state’s other federal prisons.

The three prisons, with populations as of September 2026:

Code	Prison	Security	Population	Inmate mail	Main number
ALF	FCI Allenwood Low (this page)	Low	1,037	P.O. Box 1000, White Deer, PA 17887	570-547-1990
ALM	FCI Allenwood Medium	Medium	1,070	P.O. Box 2000, White Deer, PA 17887	570-547-7950
ALP	USP Allenwood	High	351	P.O. Box 3000, White Deer, PA 17887	570-547-0963
ALX	FCC Allenwood, the complex	—	2,458 in all	Not an inmate address	—

The Low’s two names cause mix-ups. The roster says FCI Allenwood Low; the Low’s own handbook, the complex supplement, federal prosecutors, and most judges say Low Security Correctional Institution, or LSCI, Allenwood. The District of Columbia’s inspectors noted in 2024 that the Bureau “uses the terms ‘LSCI Allenwood’ and ‘FCI Allenwood Low’ interchangeably.”

The Bureau’s State of the Bureau report for 1999 listed the Low at P.O. Box 1500, which is now the Low’s staff mailbox; prisoners’ mail goes to Box 1000. The roster entry for the whole complex shows a Box 1000 in Montgomery, PA 17752, and that is not an inmate address either.

There is no camp. The roster records none at the Low, and the old Allenwood Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, a separate institution, was one of four stand-alone camps the Bureau’s official timeline lists for closure in its 2004 cost-reduction program; PennLive reported that it closed on July 18, 2005.

Records disagree about the county. The Bureau’s address record and a November 2025 Middle District opinion about a man held here say Union County; a 2019 U.S. Attorney’s Office press release said Lycoming County, and the Census Bureau’s geocoder puts the map point on the Bureau’s roster entry for the Low in Brady Township, Lycoming County. If a form turns on the county, ask the institution. Both counties lie in the Middle District of Pennsylvania (28 U.S.C. § 118(b)), where a § 2241 habeas petition about a sentence being served here is filed.

What is the security level at FCI Allenwood Low?

The Bureau classifies FCI Allenwood Low as a low-security institution for men. The decision to send a man here is made in Texas, where the Designation and Sentence Computation Center in Grand Prairie scores him under the Bureau’s security designation rules, Program Statement 5100.08 (as amended in 2026); under its Table 5-2, a score of 12 to 15 points means a low and 16 to 23 a medium. Our guides to low-security prisons and to designation explain the scoring.

Eleven points or fewer ordinarily means a camp, unless a Public Safety Factor applies. Table 5-2 makes a low the floor for such a man when he carries a Deportable Alien, Juvenile Violence, Greatest Severity, Sex Offender, Serious Telephone Abuse, or Threat to Government Officials factor, or has more than ten years to serve. At an immigration hearing site the first matters most: a non-citizen “shall be housed in at least a Low security level institution,” unless immigration authorities or a judge have found deportation unwarranted, and the factor does not apply to a naturalized citizen.

The courts will not revisit the result. When a man at the Low asked in 2026 to be moved to FCI Danbury, as his sentencing court had recommended, Judge Mannion dismissed the petition, holding that 18 U.S.C. § 3621(b) puts the placement beyond the court’s review and that a challenge to a security classification cannot be brought in a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Gray v. Warden of FCI-Allenwood Low, No. 3:26-cv-01432 (M.D. Pa. Aug. 20, 2026)). The route that remains is administrative: classification reviews, a transfer request and the administrative remedy process.

What does the immigration hearing program mean at FCI Allenwood Low?

At FCI Allenwood Low, the Institution Hearing Program means a man who is not a U.S. citizen can have his removal case decided by an immigration judge while he serves his sentence, and that his citizenship then shapes his credits, his programs, and where he goes at the end. The roster marks all three Allenwood prisons as Institution Hearing Program sites. The District of Columbia’s 2024 inspection report says the Low “serves as an Institution Hearing Program (IHP) site,” and the immigration courts’ January 2018 fact sheet lists it by name. Our page on the Institution Hearing Program covers the national rules.

How a hearing works

The Low’s handbook tells a non-citizen designated here to expect an interview by Immigration and Customs Enforcement once ICE has his file. ICE then serves a Notice to Appear before an immigration judge, issues an administrative removal order, or reinstates an earlier order. The Inspector General’s September 2021 review of the program (Report 21-123) found that most hearings for federal prisoners are held by video teleconference, that an interpreter is supplied where needed, and that a judge’s order can be appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals within 30 days.

Finishing the case inside matters. The same review found that between fiscal 2013 and mid-2019, federal program participants who had a final order before entering ICE detention spent an average of 23 days there, against 89 days for those whose sentence ended without one. Program Statement 5111.04, as amended in 2017, says “A representative is eligible to attend an IHP hearing” if unit staff get advance notice, with the Warden deciding who may enter, and the complex supplement says hearings are ordinarily held on non-visiting days.

Where a man goes after the hearing

Under the 2017 change notice, a man who is not ordered removed and has 18 months or less to serve ordinarily stays at the hearing site for release processing; one with more is referred for redesignation. The Low’s 2022 handbook still says a man ordered deported with more than 12 months left may be referred for transfer “to an appropriate release site,” but the program statement’s own summary of the 2017 changes says “All references to release sites have been removed.” If a move is proposed on that basis, ask the case manager in writing which rule is being applied.

Time credits, halfway houses and detainers

A final removal order ends the use of First Step Act time credits: under 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(E)(i), a prisoner subject to one “is ineligible to apply time credits.” Judges in the Middle District have applied that bar to men at the Low, among them a Cambodian national (Ath v. Greene, No. 3:24-cv-02187 (M.D. Pa. Sept. 22, 2025)) and a Cuban national who argued that he could not be removed to Cuba (Guerrero v. Greene, No. 3:24-cv-01836 (M.D. Pa. Oct. 9, 2025)).

A detainer without a final order is contested ground. A Justice Department memorandum of January 30, 2025, as a court later quoted it, canceled pending credit-based pre-release placements for “all non-U.S. citizens with active detainers,” including cases “where a final order of deportation has not been issued.” A lawful permanent resident returned to custody from a Baltimore halfway house after that memorandum was moved to FCI Allenwood Low on March 28, 2025. That May, Judge M. Hannah Lauck of the Eastern District of Virginia granted his habeas petition, holding that the statute bars only a prisoner subject to a final order of removal, that the Act’s command to transfer eligible prisoners still covered him, and that reincarcerating him without notice or explanation violated due process; “each day Mr. Adepoju spends in FCI Allenwood Low,” she wrote, “constitutes irreparable harm” (Adepoju v. Scales, 782 F. Supp. 3d 306 (E.D. Va. 2025)). The ruling does not bind the courts in Pennsylvania.

Halfway-house and home-confinement placement itself stays with the Bureau. When a man at the Low argued in 2025 that he had been denied home confinement because of his immigration status, the court held that placement under 18 U.S.C. § 3624(c) is the Bureau’s decision and dismissed the petition (Cummings v. Greene, No. 1:25-cv-01867 (M.D. Pa. Nov. 17, 2025)).

The drug-program sentence reduction has its own bar. The Bureau’s rule excludes “Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees” from early release (28 C.F.R. § 550.55(b)(1)), and the Bureau’s early-release procedures, Program Statement 5331.02, treat a detainer that would prevent completion of the program’s community treatment as disqualifying for early release. Immigration consequences left unexplained before a guilty plea are a separate question, covered in our page on Padilla claims.

Treaty transfer and consular visits

A man from a treaty country may be able to serve the rest of his sentence at home; the handbook counts “approximately 84 countries” with treaties, and consular visits are arranged through the unit team or the IHP coordinator. When the Inspector General reviewed the International Prisoner Transfer Program in 2011 (E&I Report I-2012-002), LSCI Allenwood was one of five prisons its team visited, and “case managers initially would not speak to our team without union representation.” Our treaty transfer guide explains the process.

Who are the notable inmates at FCI Allenwood Low?

The best-known man at FCI Allenwood Low today is Ippei Mizuhara, the former Japanese-language interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani. The Bureau’s Inmate Locator shows him at FCI Allenwood Low with a projected release date of December 18, 2028. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California reports that he was sentenced on February 6, 2025, to 57 months for bank fraud and subscribing to a false tax return, with restitution of $16,975,010 to Ohtani and $1,149,400 to the IRS.

Other names on the usual lists belong to men who have left, as their locator records show:

Name	Public record	Locator record
Charles Tanner	360-month sentence from the Northern District of Indiana, commuted to time served in October 2020; the warrant says he was “presently incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution—Allenwood Low”	Released from ALF, October 21, 2020
Giuseppe “Joe” Giudice	41 months, imposed in New Jersey in October 2014, for conspiracy, bankruptcy fraud, and failing to file a tax return; told by the court that he faced deportation afterward	Released from ALF, March 14, 2019
Alex van der Zwaan	30 days, imposed in Washington, D.C., in April 2018, for false statements to FBI agents in the Special Counsel’s investigation; pardoned December 22, 2020	Released from ALF, June 4, 2018
Martin Shkreli	A January 2021 court order in FTC v. Vyera Pharmaceuticals said he was “currently incarcerated at the Allenwood Low Security Federal Correctional Institution”	Released September 14, 2022, last listed under the New York reentry office
Giles Darby	Former NatWest banker sentenced in 2008 to 37 months in the Enron-related Bermingham case; due to surrender to the Low on May 7, 2008	Released November 26, 2008, facility listed as “IN TRANSIT”

Jeb Stuart Magruder was held at the Allenwood Federal Prison Camp, the separate camp that closed in 2005, not at the Low, as PennLive’s reporting on the camp records. No record places Kifah Jayyousi at the Low: the D.C. Circuit’s decisions on his challenge to his placement trace his time through the Communications Management Units at Terre Haute and Marion and then Marion’s general population, without mentioning Allenwood, and his locator record lists his release on September 15, 2017, under the Detroit reentry office.

How do I find someone at FCI Allenwood Low?

To find someone at FCI Allenwood Low, search the Inmate Locator by register number, or by first and last name together; a man held here appears as “Allenwood Low FCI.” The name search can miss hyphenated and compound surnames, so try each part, and treat an empty result as a reason to search again rather than proof of release. A result reading Allenwood Medium FCI or Allenwood USP means a different prison with a different mailbox and different visiting days. Put the eight-digit register number on every letter and form; our page on inmate number searches explains the other identifiers.

How do I write to someone at FCI Allenwood Low?

Letters to a man at FCI Allenwood Low go to the White Deer post office box, addressed as the Bureau’s address record gives it:

Full committed name and register number
FCI Allenwood Low
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 1000
White Deer, PA 17887

White Deer is the post office; the Allenwood street address, ZIP code 17810, is for visitors and deliveries. Our guide to writing to a federal prisoner covers enclosures.

The Low’s admission and orientation handbook reprints the Northeast Region’s strict incoming-mail rules. Letters must come in white envelopes on white paper; other colors, glitter, stickers, lipstick, stains, or an oily substance can get mail rejected under the Bureau’s correspondence rules, Program Statement 5265.14, and staff may remove the stamps. A man at a low may receive softcover publications other than newspapers from any source and keep 3 magazines, 5 books, and 2 newspapers at a time. Mail is handed out after the 4:00 p.m. count clears.

A lawyer’s letter must identify the sender and be marked “Special Mail — Open only in the presence of the inmate.” Outgoing legal, certified, insured, and registered mail must be carried by the prisoner to the Correctional Systems office between 7:30 and 7:40 a.m. on a weekday, and all other outgoing mail needs a TRULINCS mailing label. Our page on attorney-client communications covers legal mail.

How do I send money to someone at FCI Allenwood Low?

Money for a man at FCI Allenwood Low goes through the Bureau’s national system, not the prison. The Bureau’s Send Money page gives three ways:

• By mail to the lockbox: Federal Bureau of Prisons, the man’s committed name, his eight-digit register number, Post Office Box 474701, Des Moines, Iowa 50947-0001. Money orders, government checks, certified and cashier’s checks, and bank drafts are accepted; personal checks, cash, and anything else in the envelope are not. Money orders other than postal ones, and checks other than government checks, are held for 15 days, and foreign instruments for 45.
• Western Union, online, through the Send2Corrections app, or at 1-800-634-3422 (option 2), with the code city FBOP, DC and, as the account, the register number without spaces followed by the last name.
• MoneyGram, with Receive code 7932, company “Federal Bureau of Prisons,” city Washington, DC, and the same account format; online transfers are capped at $300.

Transfers sent between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Eastern post within two to four hours, and later ones at 7:00 a.m. the next day; deposit questions go to 202-307-2712. See our guide to sending money.

Spending is capped separately: the Low’s posted list allows $90 a week at commissary. The handbook adds that a man who refuses the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program is held to $25 a month there and to maintenance pay of $5.25 a month, and that only an associate warden can approve a withdrawal over $500.

What are the visiting hours at FCI Allenwood Low?

Visiting at FCI Allenwood Low runs Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and federal holidays, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., under complex supplement ALX-5267.09C, Visiting Regulations, of March 15, 2024. The supplement governs all three Allenwood prisons and gives the Low a day the others lack: “The LSCI is open from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and all federal holidays.” The Medium and the penitentiary open on weekends and holidays only.

No one is processed in after 2:00 p.m.; from then visitors leave in arrival order, in groups of no more than ten, so the room is empty by three. Visitors must arrange their own transport both ways and may not linger on the grounds. The supplement is the schedule; before a long drive, call 570-547-1990. The Bureau’s visiting regulations and our visiting guide cover the national rules.

Visiting points and who can come

The Low allows 12 visiting points a month, against 8 at the Medium and the penitentiary. Each Friday, Saturday, or Sunday visit costs two points however long it lasts, which makes six ordinary visits. Federal holidays cost nothing, and neither do legal, Minister of Record, or Prison Visitation and Support visits. A man who leaves the room before another visitor arrives the same day is charged for a second visit, and extra points need advance written approval from the designated associate warden, “only when there is a significant need.”

The Low’s 2022 handbook charges one point for a Friday and two for a holiday, and leaves children two and under out of the five-visitor limit. The supplement is two years newer and counts children within the five; plan by it, and if the visiting room applies the handbook, ask which document it is following.

The supplement’s other rules for visitors:

• Five visitors at a time, children included; more needs written approval in advance, and a same-day request will be denied.
• Up to 25 immediate family members and 10 others on the list, all background-checked, and ordinarily known to the man before his incarceration; the Warden can make exceptions.
• A felony conviction for drugs or violence in the past three years ordinarily brings a staff memo recommending denial, and a visitor under federal, state, or local supervision needs a letter from the supervising agency authorizing the visit; “Only the Warden has the authority to deny a visitor from being added to an inmate’s visiting list.”
• The visitor form attached to the supplement, BP-A0629, asks for a Social Security or alien registration number and warns that a false answer is a crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1001.

One handbook rule matters to the man inside. After a disciplinary finding for possessing a cell phone (code 108), for introducing, using, or possessing drugs or alcohol (codes 111, 112, and 113), or for sexual acts (code 205), he visits only in the non-contact cells for six months after his visiting privileges are restored, or from the finding if visits were never taken away, and from arrival if he was transferred in on those charges. Men in the Special Housing Unit visit without contact for one hour under the supplement; the handbook’s two hours is out of date.

What visitors can wear and bring

Skirts, dresses, and shorts may end no more than one inch above the knee, slits included. Barred: tight, stretchy, or see-through clothing, which includes revealing white; hoodies and sweatpants; halter, midriff, and low-cut tops and bare shoulders; flip-flops and open-toe or open-back shoes; hats other than religious headwear; any watch, sunglasses, or scarf; camouflage and professional-sports or gang marks. A bra is required, and a plain white T-shirt may not be the only shirt.

The body of the supplement bars anything resembling the khaki uniform or the “green inmate jackets,” listing brown, light brown, beige, khaki, tan, and green, while the handout at the back leaves green off. Follow the longer list.

In a clear plastic purse or zip-lock bag a visitor may carry identification, life-sustaining medication, two sanitary items, one car key, and up to $50 per adult in quarters or $1 and $5 bills for the vending machines; the man you visit may not handle the money, and nothing bought may leave the room. For a baby: three diapers, three bottles no more than three-quarters full, one sealed container of baby food, a sippy cup, a spoon, a clear tote, wipes, one change of clothes, and a blanket no larger than two feet by three. Strollers, carriers, and breast-pump supplies stay outside.

One rule decides where a driver’s phone goes: “Visitors who arrive in personal or rented vehicles will not be allowed to place items in a locker located in the Front Lobby area.” The lockers are for people who came by public transport. If you drove, your phone and everything else you cannot carry in stay locked in the car, and once you have checked in you may not go back to it.

Identification and screening

Everyone 16 or older needs government photo identification showing photograph, name, date of birth, sex, height, eye color, and address, a passport with a U.S. visa stamp or I-94, or a military ID. Refused: passports without a visa stamp, consular IDs, border-crossing cards, bank, business, school, and check-cashing cards, anything altered or expired, and any card marked “Federal Limits,” “not valid Federal Identification,” or “not for federal purposes.”

Visitors pass a walk-through metal detector; a hand-held one is used for a visitor with medical documentation “specifically describing the medical implant,” or when the walk-through is not working. Pat searches are random, and refusing one means no visit. Cars are registered and may be searched. Park only in the Low’s lot: a car in staff parking cancels the visit, no one may wait in a car, and a car left after visiting is towed at the owner’s cost.

Ion scanning is random, and the supplement sets its own ladder. Refusing the scan bars a visit for at least 48 hours; a first confirmed positive means denial with re-entry possible after 48 hours; a second suspends visiting for 30 days, a third for 90 and any later one for 180, and positives recorded at other prisons count. The national rule has since changed. Program Statement 5524.01 (2026), which replaced the ion-spectrometry statement the handbook still quotes, lets the Warden allow a first-time positive visitor into a controlled or non-contact visit once a pat or vehicle search comes back clean, keeps the 30-, 90-, and 180-day suspensions, and requires testing on every visit for a year after a positive. A visitor who is turned away gets form BP-A0732 and may appeal in writing to the Warden, then the Regional Director, then the Central Office. See our pages on ion spectrometry screening and searches and contraband.

Getting there

From Interstate 80, the Low’s handbook says to take exit 210B (formerly 30B) north onto U.S. Route 15 and drive about five miles; the prison is on the left at the traffic light. From Williamsport, the supplement says to come south on Route 15 and turn right at the red light.

The handbook puts the Low 11 miles south of Williamsport and 12 north of Lewisburg; the supplement’s mileages differ. In 2013 the District of Columbia’s inspectors put it 196 miles, about three and a half hours by car, from downtown Washington.

The handbook and the supplement both say the area “has no public transportation (city bus service)” and recommend a car. The handbook names the Williamsport/Lycoming County Airport in Montoursville, Fullington Trailways (1-800-942-8287), and Amtrak into Harrisburg, about 70 miles south; the supplement gives a different Trailways number, 1-800-692-6314, and lists hotels in Lewisburg, New Columbia, Montgomery, Watsontown, and Williamsport. Both lists are years old, so call ahead.

How do phone calls and email work at FCI Allenwood Low?

Men at FCI Allenwood Low may use up to 510 telephone minutes a month, not the 300 the Low’s handbook still prints. The Bureau’s telephone regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, issued September 3, 2026, give 300 free minutes a calendar month to prisoners eligible for First Step Act telephone incentives; any prisoner who uses up those 300, eligible or not, may buy the other 210, and unmonitored legal calls do not count. A single call should generally not exceed 15 minutes, at least 30 minutes must pass between calls, and the new statement drops the extra 100 minutes a month that the 2008 statement ordinarily allowed in November and December.

The handbook describes four telephones on each side of every housing unit, a list of up to 30 numbers kept on TRULINCS, and a monthly reset staggered by the fifth digit of the register number; confirm the reset date with the unit team. The person called presses 5 to accept, or 77 to block future calls. A complex rule bars calls to hotels and motels, and an unmonitored call with a lawyer is arranged through the unit manager. See our guide to federal prison phone calls.

Email runs through TRULINCS, with up to 100 contacts, 30 of them email addresses, and a relative must accept a man’s invitation first. The handbook warns that email to a lawyer is monitored like any other, so nothing about a case belongs there. Our page on TRULINCS email explains the rest, including how families sign up.

What can people buy at the FCI Allenwood Low commissary?

Men at FCI Allenwood Low may spend up to $90 a week at commissary under the Low’s posted order form. The “LSCI Allenwood – Commissary List, January – March 2025,” signed by the complex warden, sets a “$90.00 Weekly Spending Limit” that does not count stamps, nicotine replacement patches, over-the-counter medication, or copy cards.

The national ceiling is $460 a month under the Bureau’s trust fund rules, Program Statement 4500.13, issued May 7, 2026; the limit rises by $50 during the November and December holiday period, for no more than one validation period. The 2022 handbook’s $360 a month, with a $180 cap every two weeks, is obsolete. Four weeks at $90 come to $360 and five to $450, inside that ceiling, but the form predates the national change by more than a year, so ask whether a newer one is posted.

A man shops once a week on his unit’s day and must be present when called, “or he will forfeit his shopping privileges for the week. NO EXCEPTIONS.” Nothing can be added once the list is in, and all sales are final. Caps include 24 soups, 14 shelf-stable meals, 5 bags of chips, 12 sodas, and 2 ice creams. See our guide to commissary items.

The form stocks typewriter ribbons at $8.45, correction tape at $2.60, and a $49.35 print wheel, all marked as local items; the handbook says the library’s typewriters are for legal work and that men provide their own materials. It sells a Score 7 tablet for $131.30 and, for central Pennsylvania winters, wool gloves, knit caps, and thermal underwear. Check before buying the form’s $55.85 Ironman watch: the handbook’s local property list allows a watch worth under $50, although Program Statement 5580.10 (2026) allows up to $100.

What programs are available at FCI Allenwood Low?

FCI Allenwood Low offers drug treatment, a UNICOR factory, GED and English classes, culinary training, apprenticeships, and a long list of shorter classes. The Bureau’s First Step Act Approved Programs Guide (August 2026) names FCI Allenwood Low in its own entries for Federal Prison Industries and FPI Lean Basic Training, and lists “FCI Allenwood – L” among its Residential Drug Abuse Program locations. For anything else, ask the unit team in writing.

Drug treatment

The Low runs a Residential Drug Abuse Program under the Bureau’s RDAP rules. The guide’s June 2026 location list counts “57 RDAPS at 50 Locations,” including both the Low and the Medium, and neither Allenwood entry carries the guide’s mark for a co-occurring disorders or Spanish-language program. The handbook describes a program of at least nine months, run half a day, and a reduction of up to a year under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e) for those who qualify; it also says “This institution does not have a Resolve Program.” When the District of Columbia’s inspectors visited in September 2013, the program had recently opened, with 96 places and 49 men waiting.

In Jenkins v. Warden Allenwood FCI, No. 25-2964 (3d Cir. Aug. 3, 2026), a non-precedential decision, a man serving 87 months for being a felon in possession of a firearm had enrolled in RDAP at the Low and been told he could not get early release. The Third Circuit summarily affirmed, holding that the Bureau’s categorical exclusion of prisoners whose current offense involved a firearm, 28 C.F.R. § 550.55(b)(5)(ii), remains valid under Lopez v. Davis, 531 U.S. 230 (2001), and that the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Loper Bright does not unsettle the earlier rulings. Our RDAP guide explains how denials are challenged.

School, trade training and UNICOR

Men below 225 on the CASAS test take English as a second language, and men without a verified diploma take GED classes; the handbook says a man cannot be paid above grade 4 until he has 480 hours of class or the GED. The Low’s vocational list is short: Introduction to Culinary Arts, Advanced Culinary Arts, and apprenticeships as a cook, a UNICOR quality control inspector, and a UNICOR upholsterer, each requiring a diploma or GED. The handbook adds correspondence courses, the National Parenting Program, and an annual Children’s Day. See our pages on education and vocational training.

UNICOR at the Low is an office-furniture and seating factory, with a product support operation that tests desks, tables, and chairs for eight other UNICOR factories. Pay in 2022 ran from 23 cents an hour in grade 5 to $1.15 in grade 1, with a premium grade at $1.35; men with UNICOR experience at another prison get hiring priority and start at grade 4. The Bureau told the District’s inspectors in 2024 that the Low’s factory posts an updated waiting list at its entrance every month. FPI Lean Basic Training, a 16-hour course, is assigned to ten institutions including the Low in the guide’s own entry, while its by-institution grid marks three more.

Faith, veterans and the wider First Step Act list

The guide’s by-institution grid marks the Low for dozens of programs that the guide’s own entries say may be offered at any Bureau institution, which is permission, not proof that a class is meeting. Its marks for the Low include Dialectical Behavior Therapy, the Aleph correspondence course, and the International School of Ministry, which the grid marks at only five institutions. The grid also marks the Low, and not the Medium, for three veterans’ programs: Soldier On, Veterans Resilience Support, and Redefining the Mission. Ask the unit team in writing whether they meet; see our page on veterans in federal prison. The handbook says religious services offer “No Flesh” and certified diets, and a Minister of Record may visit on a non-visiting day if asked two weeks ahead; our page on religious programs explains the approvals.

Legal work and the law library

The Bureau’s page for the Low links a document labeled “Inmate Legal Activities at FCI Allenwood Low,” but it is not a local rule: it is the national Program Statement 1315.07 (1999), a 33-page file that never mentions Allenwood, and that statement has been rescinded. Its replacement, the Bureau’s inmate legal activities rules, Program Statement 1315.08 (2026), ends the requirement for physical law libraries in favor of the Electronic Law Library, adds a form and guidance for reviewing electronic discovery, folds in the February 2024 attorney-visit amendments, and adds a dress code for legal visitors.

The 2022 handbook describes the older arrangement: “Typewriters are available in the library for inmate legal work,” and each man must supply his own materials. The library opens on weekdays and Saturdays, with Monday-to-Thursday evening hours, and is closed on Sundays except for a book cart. A notary is available on the second and fourth Thursdays, copies cost 15 cents a page, and the Special Housing Unit has a basic law library. See our law library guide.

Lawyers should call the case manager or counselor at least 48 hours before a legal visit. Legal visits are watched but not overheard. The handbook encourages lawyers to come during regular visiting hours, while the supplement says attorney rooms are ordinarily used on non-visiting days; either way, a lawyer may not hand papers to a client during the visit, and they go in a sealed staff envelope marked legal mail, or by mail afterward. Complaints go through the administrative remedy program: after informal resolution, a BP-9 to the Warden within 20 days, a BP-10 within 20 days of the answer, and a BP-11 within 30 days of the regional answer.

What is daily life like at FCI Allenwood Low?

Daily life at FCI Allenwood Low is dormitory life on a fixed clock. The District of Columbia’s inspectors recorded four dormitory-style housing units and a Special Housing Unit in February 2024, and the handbook’s rules assume cubicles: one version of its ID rule lets a man take off his lanyard card only in his own cubicle, and beds are made by 7:30 a.m. on weekdays. See our page on federal prison housing.

The day’s shape, from the Low’s 2022 handbook:

Time	What happens
12:00, 3:00, and 5:00 a.m.	Official counts
After the 5:00 a.m. count	Wake-up; breakfast from 6:00 to 7:00, units called in rotation
7:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.	Khaki uniform required
7:30 a.m. to 8:40 p.m. (weekdays)	Controlled movement, with ten-minute moves on the half hour
10:00 a.m. (weekends and holidays)	Standing count, then brunch
10:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (weekdays)	Lunch
4:00 p.m.	Standing count; mail call and dinner follow
10:00 p.m.	Standing count

The ten-minute moves can be tight: one 2013 complaint to the District’s inspectors was that “it’s hard to get from Brady to the law library, print what is needed, and get back all in ten minutes.” Meals follow the Bureau’s national menu, and no food leaves the dining hall. See our pages on controlled movement, counts, and prison food.

The gym and yard open on weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 8:15 p.m., with breaks, and the gym keeps shorter hours from May through September. The handbook lists hobby crafts, music classes, yoga, and sports leagues, including basketball for men 35 and over. See our guide to recreation.

Health care is at care level 2 for both medical and mental health on the Bureau’s 2024 care-level charts; the Bureau’s care-level rules explain the scale. A man’s primary care provider is assigned by the fourth and fifth digits of his register number and, the handbook says, cannot be changed. The handbook schedules a physical within 14 days of arrival for a new commitment, and a dental examination within 30 days. A health-care visit a man requests costs $2, except for an indigent man, one who “has not had a trust fund account balance of $6 for the past 30 days.” Our medical care guide explains sick call.

What do inspectors say about conditions at FCI Allenwood Low?

Inspectors have examined FCI Allenwood Low through an unannounced Inspector General food-service inspection in June 2024, District of Columbia inspections in 2013 and 2024, and a July 2025 sexual-abuse audit; federal allegation counts and court cases add to the record. Several cover the whole complex, so check whether a figure is for the Low or for all three prisons.

The Inspector General’s June 2024 inspection

On June 4, 2024, the Inspector General gave six federal prisons an hour’s notice that its teams were coming to inspect food service, and FCC Allenwood was one of them, chosen on the office’s risk-assessment scores and the volume and nature of complaints it had received. The report, Concurrent Inspections of BOP Food Service Operations (E&I Report 25-062, June 17, 2025), counted 1,002 men at the Low on June 4, 2024, and judged Allenwood favorably: “FCC Allenwood and MCC Chicago had the fewest deficiencies of the institutions we inspected.” It recorded food service staffed at 89 percent, 33 of 37 positions, ice at a freezer threshold, which the Bureau addressed with new gaskets, and a food warehouse without cameras, where “inmates did not work.”

One finding is easy to misattribute. The report says that “At FCC Allenwood, inmates routinely diverted large volumes of food and hid it, for personal use, in drop ceilings,” and places the discovery “In the FCI kitchen.” But it labels both of Allenwood’s non-penitentiary prisons as FCIs, “FCI #1: Medium Security” and “FCI #2: Low Security,” and never says which kitchen it meant, so the finding cannot be pinned on the Low or on the Medium. Allenwood’s visit was one of six in that food-service round, and Report 26-055 (May 2026) puts the office’s total at 14 Bureau institutions inspected since 2023.

An older report describes the Low itself. Criminal Calls, the Inspector General’s August 1999 review of prison telephone abuse, tells how Anthony Jones, a Baltimore drug dealer held at the Low, used a recorded Bureau telephone at Allenwood on February 21, 1997, to order the murder of his step-brother, who was shot dead five days later. It found that the Low’s investigative staff never entered Jones in the Bureau’s telephone-abuse category “despite two reminders from the BOP,” and called the Bureau’s handling of his case “inexcusable.”

What the District of Columbia’s inspectors found

The District of Columbia Corrections Information Council inspects federal prisons that hold D.C. Code offenders, and its findings rest on the few who agree to talk. For its complex-wide report (the Low was visited February 1, 2024; published June 27, 2024) it counted 15 D.C. residents at the Low and interviewed 11; at the Low it “only conducted interviews,” and it listed the Low’s rated capacity as 992 and its population as 1,001. Three men said they were held in the Special Housing Unit; the Bureau replied that none of the men interviewed was in the Low’s SHU, and the Council concluded that the three had probably misunderstood its survey question.

In its written answers, the Bureau reported that the complex had since hired two medical officers, four pharmacists, and five other health and psychology staff. When the Council urged unit teams to tell D.C. residents within 24 months of release about the District’s READY Center, reachable through CorrLinks at ready.center@dc.gov or at (202) 790-6790, the Bureau answered that the Public Defender Service’s Reentry Navigator books are kept in each Allenwood facility’s education department. On the staff-misconduct complaints, it said the Council had not given it specific information to investigate.

The Council’s earlier report is about the Low alone (visit of September 19, 2013; published November 3, 2014). It found a design capacity of 1,415 and an occupancy of 1,325, and nine D.C. prisoners, six of whom it interviewed and who raised 19 concerns. It praised the Low’s biweekly sentence-computation open house and urged the whole Bureau to copy it. The men’s concerns included waits of one and a half to two weeks for sick call, too little programming, “No place for a tradesman to work here,” and one man’s account that he had not reported a possible sexual-abuse incident for fear of being sent to the SHU; the facility answered that point by restating its zero-tolerance policy.

The 2025 PREA audit and allegation counts

Lynni O’Haver of Corrections Consulting Services audited FCC Allenwood under the Prison Rape Elimination Act on July 29–31, 2025, and her final report of September 10, 2025, found that the complex met all 45 standards. The Bureau’s page for the Low links this complex-wide report under the label “FCI Allenwood Low PREA Report.” See our page on PREA in federal prisons.

For the Low, the facility profile in the September 2025 report gives a designated capacity of 988, a current population of 1,032, and 895 admissions in the previous 12 months. Its average-length-of-stay entry for the Low reads 627.8 with no unit printed, against 337.9 days at the penitentiary and 536.2 days at the Medium. For the whole complex it recorded five allegations of sexual abuse and four of sexual harassment in the twelve months before the audit, every one naming another prisoner; the five abuse investigations were closed as unsubstantiated. The handbook lists Transitions of Pennsylvania in Lewisburg (1-800-850-7948) and the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800-656-4673) for survivors; see our page on sexual assault in prison.

The Government Accountability Office’s May 2026 report, Federal Prisons: Improvements Needed to Prevent, Detect, and Address Sexual Abuse (GAO-26-107343), counts allegations at the Low itself: for 2020 through 2024, 8 naming another incarcerated person and 10 naming Bureau staff, with the staff count at two, none, three, two, and three by year. Each is an allegation, not a finding; nationally, GAO found that most allegations from 2014 through 2022 ended as unsubstantiated, meaning there was not enough evidence to show whether the abuse did or did not occur, which is not the same as false. The two tables come from different Bureau systems and cannot be added together, and GAO did not adjust for population, so they cannot rank the Low against other prisons.

Care levels and staffing

The Bureau’s 2024 care-level charts rate the Low care level 2 for medical care and for mental health care, and the District’s January 2025 information sheet republishes both ratings. The Bureau’s report to Congress for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024 gives the complex a ratio of 6.8 prisoners per correctional officer as of September 30, 2024, and its shift table breaks out the Low: 14 officers on the weekday morning watch (midnight to 8 a.m.), 35 on the day watch, and 20 on the evening watch, against 13, 19, and 20 on weekends. The weekend day watch, which covers Saturday and Sunday visiting, had 16 fewer officers than the weekday one.

In court

Two Third Circuit decisions began here. In Moscato v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, 98 F.3d 757 (3d Cir. 1996), a camp prisoner disciplined after a 1993 hearing at LSCI Allenwood had procedurally defaulted his administrative appeal, and the court held that such a default bars habeas review unless the prisoner shows cause and prejudice. In Mammana v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, 934 F.3d 368 (3d Cir. 2019), a man at the Low alleged four days in a cold room under a light that never went off, without bedding or toilet paper and in paper-like clothing, on charges later expunged; the court held that the allegations stated an Eighth Amendment claim. His damages case still failed: on remand the district court held that the claim arose in a new Bivens context, and the Third Circuit affirmed in a non-precedential decision, over a dissent (Mammana v. Barben, No. 20-2364 (3d Cir. May 21, 2021)). See our pages on the Special Housing Unit and on discipline.

FCI Allenwood Low in the news

Recent news about FCI Allenwood Low centers on the September 2025 indictment of 16 complex prisoners over a 2023 fight; older items concern contraband prosecutions from 2019 to 2022 and a 2021 death at the Low.

• September 2025. A federal grand jury indicted 16 FCC Allenwood prisoners, alleging that on June 2, 2023, they conspired to attack other prisoners with locks and heavy objects tied to strings, belts, and socks. PennLive, covering the arraignments in October, placed the fight at the low-security prison. An indictment is only an accusation, and every defendant is presumed innocent (United States v. Abudeye-Perez, No. 4:25-cr-00252 (M.D. Pa.)).
• January 2022. A man at LSCI Allenwood pleaded guilty to possessing a cell phone that staff found in May 2021 in a pocket stitched inside his uniform; he was sentenced to two months.
• October 2021. The Bureau posted one news release reporting the death of a person held at FCI Allenwood Low; the Bureau’s releases are listed on its press release page.
• June 2020. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced a consecutive 12-month sentence for a man it placed at the Low, for possessing 120 Suboxone strips; its 2019 charging announcement had named FCI Allenwood and said the strips were found on him after a visit.
• May 2019. Federal prosecutors charged two men with conspiring in 2014 to smuggle oxycodone pills into LSCI Allenwood in balloons passed in the visiting room.

Frequently asked questions about FCI Allenwood Low

Where we can help at FCI Allenwood Low

The problems that recur in this prison’s own record turn mostly on paperwork and deadlines:

• Release planning for a man who is not a citizen: whether an immigration hearing here has produced a final order, what that does to his time credits, and how the January 2025 detainer memorandum is being applied to him.
• RDAP and the § 3621(e) reduction: the firearm and detainer exclusions applied to men at the Low, and the records an eligibility review turns on.
• Designation and classification: a Public Safety Factor such as Deportable Alien, or a request to move nearer home; courts will not review these decisions, so the administrative record decides them.
• Remedies and discipline: a missed deadline in the administrative remedy process can end judicial review, the rule set in a case from this prison, and a cell-phone or drug finding brings six months of non-contact visits here.
• Shortening the sentence through compassionate release under the Bureau’s reduction-in-sentence rules, a commutation petition, or other early-release options when a man’s health, family, or legal position has changed.
• Challenges to the conviction or sentence itself, through a direct appeal or a § 2255 motion.

Elizabeth Franklin-Best, P.C. handles federal criminal defense, appeals and post-conviction matters nationwide, and advises families on Bureau of Prisons issues at institutions across the system. Call (843) 620-1100 or contact us to talk through a specific situation.

Christopher Zoukis, JD, MBA, the firm’s Managing Director, writes and maintains the federal prison policy material on this site. He is not counsel of record; legal representation is provided by Elizabeth Franklin-Best.

Sources and currency

Bureau of Prisons documents

• FCI Allenwood Low, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The Bureau’s facility page, with address, contact details, population, and inmate-mail block.
• LSCI Allenwood Commissary List, January–March 2025, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FCI Allenwood Low, 2025. Items, prices, and the $90 weekly spending limit.
• Complex Supplement ALX-5267.09C, Visiting Regulations, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FCC Allenwood, 2024. Visiting days and hours, points, dress code, permitted items, and screening at the three Allenwood prisons.
• LSCI Allenwood Admission and Orientation Handbook, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FCI Allenwood Low, 2022. Mail, telephones, commissary, programs, the daily schedule, health care, and other local rules.
• Legal Activities, Inmate, Program Statement 1315.07, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 1999. The copy linked from the Bureau’s page for the Low; rescinded.
• Inmate Legal Activities, Program Statement 1315.08, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Replaced Program Statement 1315.07.
• Trust Fund/Deposit Fund Manual, Program Statement 4500.13, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Sets the $460 commissary spending limit.
• Inmate Security Designation and Custody Classification, Program Statement 5100.08, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2006, as amended in 2026. Security-level scoring and Public Safety Factors.
• Institution Hearing Program, Program Statement 5111.04, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2006, as amended in 2017.
• Inmate Telephone Regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Replaced Program Statement 5264.08 (2008).
• Correspondence, Program Statement 5265.14, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2011.
• Early Release Procedures Under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e), Program Statement 5331.02, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2009, as amended in 2026.
• ION Spectrometry Device Program, Program Statement 5524.01, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Replaced Program Statement 5522.02 (2015).
• Inmate Personal Property, Program Statement 5580.10, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026.
• First Step Act Approved Programs Guide, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Reentry Services Division, 2026. Program availability by institution, including RDAP locations.
• Send Money, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Lockbox, Western Union, and MoneyGram instructions.
• Historical Timeline, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Lists the camps marked for closure in the 2004 cost-reduction program.
• Inmate to Correctional Officer (CO) Ratio, FY 2024 Q4, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2025. Officer ratios and shift staffing for the complex.
• Institution Care Levels for Medical Assignment and Institutional Mental Health Care Levels, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2024. Released under Freedom of Information Act request 2024-03455 and published by the Washington Lawyers’ Committee.
• Press Releases, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2021. Includes the October 2021 release reporting a death at FCI Allenwood Low.
• State of the Bureau 1999, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 1999.

Audits and inspections

• Inspection of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ U.S. Penitentiary Canaan, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2026. Report 26-055, with the count of Bureau institutions the office has inspected since 2023.
• Federal Prisons: Improvements Needed to Prevent, Detect, and Address Sexual Abuse, U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2026. GAO-26-107343, with allegation counts for FCI Allenwood Low.
• PREA Audit Report: Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood, Corrections Consulting Services, LLC, 2025. Complex-wide audit by Lynni O’Haver, on site July 29–31, 2025.
• Concurrent Inspections of BOP Food Service Operations, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2025. Report 25-062, including the unannounced June 2024 inspection at FCC Allenwood.
• Federal Bureau of Prisons Institutions and Their Distance, Security, Health, and Mental Levels, District of Columbia Corrections Information Council, 2025. Republishes the Bureau’s care levels.
• FCC Allenwood Report on Findings and Recommendations, District of Columbia Corrections Information Council, 2024. Covers FCI Allenwood Low, FCI Allenwood Medium, and USP Allenwood.
• Review of the Institutional Hearing and Removal Program Expansion for Federal Inmates, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2021. Report 21-123.
• Inspection Report: FCI Allenwood Low, District of Columbia Corrections Information Council, 2014.
• Review of the Department of Justice’s International Prisoner Transfer Program, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2011. Report I-2012-002.
• Criminal Calls: A Review of the Bureau of Prisons’ Management of Inmate Telephone Privileges, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 1999.

Court records

• Gray v. Warden of FCI-Allenwood Low, No. 3:26-cv-01432 (M.D. Pa. Aug. 20, 2026), U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2026.
• Jenkins v. Warden Allenwood FCI, No. 25-2964 (3d Cir. Aug. 3, 2026), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2026. Non-precedential.
• Cummings v. Greene, No. 1:25-cv-01867 (M.D. Pa. Nov. 17, 2025), U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2025.
• Guerrero v. Greene, No. 3:24-cv-01836 (M.D. Pa. Oct. 9, 2025), U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2025.
• United States v. Abudeye-Perez, No. 4:25-cr-00252 (M.D. Pa.), U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2025. Docket.
• FCC Allenwood Inmates Indicted on Assault, Conspiracy and Weapons Charges, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2025. The indictment of 16 prisoners.
• Ath v. Greene, No. 3:24-cv-02187 (M.D. Pa. Sept. 22, 2025), U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2025.
• Adepoju v. Scales, 782 F. Supp. 3d 306 (E.D. Va. 2025), U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 2025. Docket, including the opinion.
• Former Interpreter Sentenced to Nearly 5 Years in Prison for Illegally Transferring Nearly $17 Million from Baseball Star’s Bank Account, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, 2025. Ippei Mizuhara’s sentence.
• Aref v. Garland, No. 20-5368 (D.C. Cir. Feb. 25, 2022), U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 2022. Docket.
• LSCI Allenwood Inmate Sentenced for Possessing Cellphone in Prison, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2022.
• Mammana v. Barben, No. 20-2364 (3d Cir. May 21, 2021), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2021. Non-precedential.
• FTC v. Vyera Pharmaceuticals, LLC, No. 1:20-cv-00706 (S.D.N.Y.), U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2021. Docket, including the memorandum opinion and order of January 8, 2021.
• Mammana v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, No. 4:17-cv-00645 (M.D. Pa.), U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2020. The decision on remand.
• Allenwood Inmate Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Drug Possession, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2020.
• Mammana v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, 934 F.3d 368 (3d Cir. 2019), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2019.
• Two Men Charged with Smuggling Oxycodone Pills into Federal Prison, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2019.
• Aref v. Lynch, 833 F.3d 242 (D.C. Cir. 2016), U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 2016.
• ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ Stars Sentenced to Prison for Conspiracy, Bankruptcy Fraud and Tax Offenses, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey, 2014. Giuseppe Giudice’s sentence.
• United States v. Bermingham, No. CR-02-00597 (S.D. Tex.), U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, 2008. Case page.
• Lopez v. Davis, 531 U.S. 230 (2001), Supreme Court of the United States, 2001.
• Moscato v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, 98 F.3d 757 (3d Cir. 1996), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1996.

News and other sources

• Details Revealed About Gang Fight at Federal Prison in Pa. That Led to 16 Indictments, PennLive, 2025.
• Pa. Prison Camp Once Called a ‘Country Club’ for Notable Inmates Goes on the Market, PennLive, 2021.
• Pardons Granted by President Donald J. Trump (2017–2021), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney, 2021. Includes Alex van der Zwaan.
• Executive Grant of Clemency: Charles Tanner, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney, 2020.
• Fact Sheet: Institutional Hearing Program, U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, 2018.
• Updated Guidance on Application of Federal Time Credits to Pre-Release Custody for All Non-U.S. Citizens with an Active Detainer, U.S. Department of Justice, 2025. Not publicly posted; quoted in the Adepoju case.
• 18 U.S.C. § 1001, Statements or entries generally, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 18 U.S.C. § 3621(b), (e), Imprisonment of a convicted person, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 18 U.S.C. § 3624(c), Release of a prisoner, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)(E)(i), Development of risk and needs assessment system, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 28 U.S.C. § 118(b), Pennsylvania, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 28 U.S.C. § 2241, Power to grant writ, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 28 C.F.R. § 550.55(b)(1), (b)(5)(ii), Eligibility for early release, Code of Federal Regulations (Legal Information Institute).

Sources reviewed September 2026.

Reviewed for legal accuracy by Elizabeth Franklin-Best, Esq., Principal Attorney·September 2026