FCI Terre Haute: Visiting, Mail, CMU History and Programs

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

FCI Terre Haute at a glance

FCI Terre Haute is the medium-security federal prison for men at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, and the minimum-security satellite camp on the same reservation is run under its code. It sits in Vigo County, roughly four miles south of the city; its main building dates from 1940 and was once the Terre Haute penitentiary.

Official name	Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute
BOP code	THA, for the FCI and the camp · complex THX
Security level	Medium at the FCI; minimum at the camp; men
Population	1,387 (as of September 2026)
Visiting	FCI: Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and federal holidays, 8 a.m.–3 p.m. · Camp: Saturday, Sunday, and federal holidays, 8 a.m.–3 p.m. · see visiting at the camp
Inmate mail	FCI: Inmate Name & Register Number · FCI Terre Haute · Federal Correctional Institution · P.O. Box 33 · Terre Haute, IN 47808 Camp: Inmate Name & Register Number · FCI Terre Haute · Federal Correctional Institution · Satellite Camp · P.O. Box 33 · Terre Haute, IN 47808
Send money	Lockbox · Western Union (code city FBOP, DC) · MoneyGram (receive code 7932)
Phone	812-238-1531 · Fax 812-238-3301
Street address	4200 Bureau Road North, Terre Haute, IN 47808 · Camp: 2501 West Bureau Road · Vigo County
Judicial district	Southern District of Indiana
BOP region	North Central
Housing	FCI: 10 active housing units, 2 air-conditioned · Camp: 8 housing units
Special Housing Unit	Yes, at the FCI
Medical care level	Level 3, FCI and camp
Mental health care level	Level 2, FCI and camp
RDAP	Yes, FCI only
UNICOR	Yes · see the programs section
Camp	Yes, minimum security

The population was 1,387 as of September 2026: 1,102 at the FCI and 285 at the camp. FCI Terre Haute answers to the Bureau’s North Central Region and sits within the federal Southern District of Indiana. Until 2025 it housed the Bureau’s first Communications Management Unit, whose closure is known from a federal court order.

FCI, camp or penitentiary: which Terre Haute prison is this?

FCI Terre Haute is the medium-security prison of the three federal facilities on the Terre Haute reservation, and the minimum-security camp there is run as part of it; the high-security penitentiary, USP Terre Haute, is a separate institution, listed with the other federal prisons in Indiana. Because the three share a post office box, an email address, and, in older documents, a name, the table shows how the Bureau tells them apart.

Facility	Code and security level	Street address and phone	What the Inmate Locator shows
FCI Terre Haute (this page)	THA, medium	4200 Bureau Road North; 812-238-1531	“Terre Haute FCI”
Satellite Prison Camp (this page)	Counted under THA; minimum	2501 West Bureau Road; 812-238-1531 (2020 supplement)	“Terre Haute FCI”
USP Terre Haute	THP, high	4700 Bureau Road South; 812-244-4400	“Terre Haute USP”
FCC Terre Haute	THX, the complex	—	The prefix on shared documents, such as supplement THX-5267.09D

Because the locator shows the FCI and the camp alike as “Terre Haute FCI,” ask him or his unit team which one he is in before you plan a visit; the two keep different visiting days.

Federal death row is not at the FCI. The Special Confinement Unit, which holds men under federal death sentences, belongs to the penitentiary, according to the December 2021 PREA audit and the complex’s visiting supplement, and the Bureau’s execution records place all thirteen federal executions of 2020 and 2021 “at USP Terre Haute, IN.”

The FCI is also the older institution. The 2021 auditor wrote that it “was built in 1940 and formerly as USP Terre Haute,” and that the present penitentiary opened in March 2005, so check the date of any older court opinion or news story that says “USP Terre Haute.”

What is the security level at FCI Terre Haute?

FCI Terre Haute is medium security, and its camp is minimum security. The Bureau’s security designation rules, Program Statement 5100.08 (as amended in 2026), place men with 16 to 23 security points at medium and 0 to 11 at minimum (chapter 1); our guide to the intake process explains the score.

Public Safety Factors override the points, and sentence length is one: a man with more than twenty years left “will be housed in at least a Medium security level institution, unless the PSF has been waived,” and one with more than ten years left goes to at least a low, which rules out the camp (PS 5100.08, chapter 5). A family asking why a man with few points is not at the camp should start there.

Care levels appear in the Bureau’s 2024 care-level charts, not on its facility pages: the FCI and the camp are medical care level 3 and mental health care level 2. See the Bureau’s care-level rules and how care levels work.

One limit appears in no designation table. Answering the D.C. Corrections Information Council in June 2017, the Bureau wrote that its Office of Medical Designations “is aware that the FCI and FPC are not handicapped accessible,” that men could be held here in a wheelchair “for short periods of time,” and that those “totally confined to a wheelchair for long term use would be referred for a transfer.” That statement dates from 2017, so ask the institution whether it still holds.

The 2021 auditor described the FCI’s “telephone style” design, with all ten housing units opening onto a long central corridor. The camp, built in 1960 with a rated capacity of 331, had eight housing units with cells holding “either two, eight or twelve men,” and shares its campus with the Bureau’s National Bus Center, “the central transportation hub for the entire United States.”

What happened to the Communications Management Unit at FCI Terre Haute?

The Communications Management Unit at FCI Terre Haute is closed. In an order of September 9, 2025, the Southern District of Indiana recorded that after one of the unit’s prisoners sued, the Bureau “closed the CMU at FCI – Terre Haute (and another at FCI – Marion in Illinois),” that “a new, single CMU was established” at FCI Cumberland in Maryland, and that government lawyers had told the court Cumberland “is now the only BOP prison with a CMU.” A man designated to a Communications Management Unit today goes to Cumberland, and our FCI Cumberland page explains how that unit runs.

Descriptions that still place a CMU at Terre Haute, where one operated for more than eighteen years, are out of date. The Bureau’s page for the FCI does not mention the unit, and no Bureau news release posted since September 2020 announces the closure.

What the unit was

Men in a Communications Management Unit live, eat, work, and worship inside it, so that their contact with the outside world can be limited “as necessary to achieve the goal of total monitoring” (28 C.F.R. §§ 540.200–.205). The 2021 PREA auditor described Terre Haute’s as “a single cell unit for inmates whose communications are all to be monitored,” including “verbal communications within the facility,” with “a small SHU of six cells within the unit,” which a federal judge in 2023 called “a unit of between six and eight cells.” The Bureau’s current CMU rules, Program Statement 5214.05 (2026), introduced three phases after this unit closed.

How it began, before there were rules

The Bureau dates the unit to December 2006: its January 2015 rule describes one CMU “at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC), Terre Haute, Indiana (established in December 2006)” and another at USP Marion from March 2008 (80 Fed. Reg. 3168). In the first lawsuit over them, the government argued that notice-and-comment rulemaking was not required for “the Marion and Terre Haute Institution Supplements that created the CMUs,” and the D.C. Circuit later observed that “both CMUs were opened before BOP established any written designation criteria.” The final rule took effect on February 23, 2015, after 733 comments on a 2010 proposal and 443 more in 2014, “almost a decade after the first CMU opened,” in the D.C. Circuit’s words.

The early limits were tighter. Before January 3, 2010, according to the prisoners’ complaint, men in the units had one four-hour visit or two two-hour visits a month, on weekdays, and one fifteen-minute call a week; by 2016 the D.C. Circuit described two fifteen-minute calls a week and two four-hour non-contact visits a month. The Terre Haute unit’s own supplement, which the court found “nearly identical” to Marion’s, is not among the documents the Bureau posts for this prison.

Men moved in and out. Daniel McGowan, released to general population at Marion in October 2010, was redesignated to the Terre Haute CMU in February 2011; the prisoners called the move retaliation for his protected speech, but the D.C. Circuit noted his request that his wife have his attorney send him law-enforcement sensitive documents, “an apparent attempt to circumvent communications monitoring,” and held the official who redesignated him entitled to qualified immunity. A federal court later found that Monzer al-Kassar “was confined in the CMU at FCI Terre Haute from 2011 until September 16, 2016.”

What the courts and the Inspector General found while it was open

In March 2011 the federal court in Washington let the prisoners’ procedural due process and retaliation claims proceed, dismissed their Eighth Amendment and discrimination claims, and turned away “four inmates at the Terre Haute CMU” who asked to join (Aref v. Holder, 774 F. Supp. 2d 147 (D.D.C. 2011)). In August 2016 the D.C. Circuit, calling it “admittedly a close call,” found the “duration and atypicality of CMU designation sufficient to give rise to a liberty interest” and remanded on whether the prisoners had received enough process (Aref v. Lynch, 833 F.3d 242 (D.C. Cir. 2016)). In September 2023, after a bench trial over a month al-Kassar spent in the unit’s segregation cells in 2016, the Southern District of Indiana accepted that “most of the building, including the CMU SHU, is not air conditioned” and that his cell “may have been uncomfortably warm,” but found the conditions not excessively hot, noisy, or unsanitary (al-Kassar v. Julian, No. 2:18-cv-00086 (S.D. Ind. Sept. 28, 2023)).

For a March 2020 audit of how the Bureau monitors terrorism-related prisoners’ communications, Inspector General staff visited FCC Terre Haute during fieldwork between June 2017 and February 2018. The auditors found that the Bureau’s ability to monitor certain conversations “at the BOP’s two Communications Management Units (CMU) was limited, despite the fact that CMUs were specifically designed for enhanced monitoring,” and that only 27 of 534 terrorism-related prisoners were in CMUs in May 2017. Of 9,327 calls by such prisoners at FCC Terre Haute between January 2015 and September 2017 in their analysis, 2,697 were only partly monitored (Audit Report 20-042, Table 3).

The unit’s visiting rules are still posted

The complex’s 2020 visiting supplement, still the one the Bureau’s page links, gives more than a page to “The Communication Management Unit (CMU) Visiting Procedures At The FCI”: Sunday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., booked at least a week ahead; no visit over four hours and no more than eight hours a month; non-contact booths, with the prisoner locked in first; live monitoring and recording “via TRUPHONE system”; English only unless arranged; and no more than four visitors. Those rules describe a unit that no longer operates here.

How the unit closed

It started with a refused legal call. In June 2024 a lawyer in upstate New York asked to speak with Dritan Duka, then in the unit, to prepare a compassionate release motion; the “SCU/CMU Case Manager” replied that “only imminent, urgent matters with an active case are appropriate for legal calls,” and prison counsel cited 28 C.F.R. § 540.204 (Duka v. Marshall, No. 1:25-cv-03111-BAH (D.D.C. Apr. 3, 2026), ECF No. 25, at 4–5). The Bureau’s national appeals administrator upheld the refusal on January 13, 2025, under Program Statement 5264.08, since rescinded, and on May 7, 2025, Duka sued in the Southern District of Indiana.

The rest is known only in outline. Duka was moved to FCI Cumberland “shortly after” he sued, and Abdulwali Abdukhad Muse, who told a New York federal court in August 2025 that he had spent five years “in the CMU program in Terre Haute, Indiana,” had been transferred to the Cumberland unit in June 2025, according to the District of Maryland. On September 9, 2025, the Indiana court recorded the closures, noted that Duka’s lawyer “did not dispute that the only CMU that BOP currently operates is at FCI – Cumberland,” and observed that if Duka were returned to Terre Haute “he would not be in a CMU” (Duka v. Rule, No. 2:25-cv-00224-JPH-MG (S.D. Ind. Sept. 9, 2025), ECF No. 15, at 1, 4–5). The rest of the case went to Washington, where in April 2026 a judge let Duka’s First Amendment challenge to the limit on unmonitored legal calls proceed, stating that “no view is provided on the ultimate merits” (Duka v. Marshall, at 13). The Inmate Locator now lists Duka at USP Canaan, Pennsylvania.

What is still not known

• The closing date. The Indiana order places it after the May 7, 2025, lawsuit, and the Maryland court dates one man’s move to Cumberland to June 2025.
• The reason; no published Bureau record gives one.
• How many men the unit held, and what the space is used for now.
• Whether the 2020 visiting supplement has been replaced by a version the Bureau has not posted.

For a letter or a court filing, “closed in 2025,” citing the Indiana order, is as precise as the public record allows.

Who are the notable inmates at FCI Terre Haute?

The best-known men connected with FCI Terre Haute are former prisoners of its Communications Management Unit, and none is held there now. Each entry gives the register number, so you can look the man up in the Inmate Locator yourself.

Name	Register number and Bureau record	Connection to FCI Terre Haute
Dritan Duka	61285-066; USP Canaan, Pennsylvania; serving life	A CMU prisoner “housed at the FCI in Terre Haute” when he sued in 2025 (D.D.C. 2026); convicted of conspiring to attack military bases, “particularly the United States Army Base at Fort Dix” (3d Cir. 2011)
Monzer al-Kassar	61111-054; FCI Florence, Colorado; projected release December 28, 2032	In the FCI’s CMU from 2011 to September 16, 2016 (S.D. Ind. 2023); convicted of conspiring to kill U.S. officers and to acquire and export anti-aircraft missiles, among other counts (2d Cir. 2011)
Abdulwali Abdukhad Muse	70636-054; FCI Cumberland, Maryland; projected release May 30, 2038	Told a court he had been in “the CMU program in Terre Haute”; moved to the Cumberland unit in June 2025; convicted in 2011 of hijacking and related offenses (D. Md. 2026)
Yassin Aref	12778-052; released October 3, 2018	In the Terre Haute CMU from May 2007 for eighteen months, then Marion (D.C. Cir. 2016)
Kifah Jayyousi	39551-039; released September 15, 2017	Sent to the Terre Haute CMU in June 2008 (D.C. Cir. 2016)
Daniel McGowan	63794-053; released June 5, 2013	Earth Liberation Front member sentenced in 2007 to seven years for arson; redesignated to the Terre Haute CMU in February 2011 (D.D.C. 2011)

Five other men appear on older lists of notable inmates here. No record places any of them at FCI Terre Haute, and the Inmate Locator shows none of them here.

Name	Register number and Bureau record	Why he appears on lists
Rezwan Ferdaus	94133-038; released June 26, 2026	Sentenced in 2012 for plotting attacks on the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol (FBI)
Farooque Ahmed	77315-083; FCI Schuylkill, Pennsylvania; projected release July 13, 2030	Sentenced to 23 years for plotting to bomb Washington-area Metrorail stations (Justice Department)
Stewart Nozette	25004-016; released November 13, 2020	Sentenced in 2012 to 13 years for attempted espionage, fraud, and tax offenses (Justice Department)
Aldrich Ames	40087-083; deceased January 5, 2026, with FCI Cumberland as his last facility	CIA officer arrested for espionage in February 1994, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life without parole (FBI)
Russell Wasendorf	12191-029; FCI Jesup, Georgia; projected release February 19, 2054	Peregrine Financial Group chief executive sentenced to 50 years for fraud and ordered to pay more than $215 million in restitution (U.S. Attorney, N.D. Iowa)

How do I find someone at FCI Terre Haute?

To find someone at FCI Terre Haute, search the Bureau of Prisons’ Inmate Locator, by register number if you have it. A man at this prison or its camp appears as “Terre Haute FCI,” and someone who has left federal custody appears with a release date instead of a location. Our register-number explainer shows how to read the number.

Name searches are less forgiving: the locator finds al-Kassar only as “Al Kassar,” not “Al-Kassar” or “Alkassar,” so an empty result means try another spelling or the number, not that someone has left custody.

How do I write to someone at FCI Terre Haute?

Letters to a man at FCI Terre Haute go to P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute, IN 47808, with his committed name and register number on the first line; for a man at the camp the Bureau adds a “Satellite Camp” line, and the handbook asks writers to add his housing unit. The address blocks below are the Bureau’s; the third is for freight addressed to a staff member.

Sending to	Address block
A man at the FCI	Inmate Name & Register Number FCI Terre Haute Federal Correctional Institution P.O. Box 33 Terre Haute, IN 47808
A man at the satellite camp	Inmate Name & Register Number FCI Terre Haute Federal Correctional Institution Satellite Camp P.O. Box 33 Terre Haute, IN 47808
Freight for a staff member	Staff Name FCI Terre Haute Federal Correctional Institution Attn: Warehouse 4200 Bureau Road North Terre Haute, IN 47808

Under the complex’s 2021 handbook, envelopes must be white with no labels or stickers and may not contain stamps or cash; a package over one pound needs advance approval on form BP-A0331 unless another policy covers it, as with legal material and books; and mail is forwarded for only 30 days after a transfer.

Because the FCI is medium security, the handbook allows softcover books there only from a publisher, a book club, or a bookstore. It lets minimum-security prisoners receive softcovers (other than newspapers) “from any source,” and the satellite camp is a minimum-security facility, so a paperback may be mailed there from home; hardcovers and newspapers still need a publisher, book club, or bookstore. See writing to someone in federal prison and the Bureau’s rules on incoming publications.

A lawyer’s letter is opened only in the prisoner’s presence if the envelope is marked as the Bureau’s special-mail rules require, including “Special Mail – open only in the presence of the inmate” on the front; otherwise, the handbook says, it “will be opened as general correspondence,” and it is the prisoner’s job to tell his lawyer. See attorney-client communication in the Bureau of Prisons.

How do I send money to someone at FCI Terre Haute?

Money for someone at FCI Terre Haute goes to the Bureau of Prisons, not to the prison: money orders and government checks go to the national lockbox in Des Moines, and transfers go through Western Union or MoneyGram. Visitors may not leave money at the prison. The details below come from the Bureau’s Sending Money page.

Method	What to enter	Timing and holds
Mail to the lockbox	Money order, U.S. government check, certified or cashier’s check, or bank draft, showing his committed name and register number, to: Federal Bureau of Prisons / Committed Name / Register Number / Post Office Box 474701 / Des Moines, Iowa 50947-0001. No cash or personal checks	15-day hold on money orders other than U.S. postal ones and on non-government checks; 45 days for foreign instruments
Western Union	Account: register number with no spaces or dashes, then last name. Attention line: full committed name. Code city: FBOP, DC. At an agent, in the Send2Corrections app, or at 1-800-634-3422, option 2	The Bureau says transfers made from 7:00 a.m. through 9:00 p.m. EST post within 2–4 hours, and later ones at 7:00 a.m. EST the next morning
MoneyGram	Company: Federal Bureau of Prisons. City and state: Washington, DC. Receive code: 7932. Beneficiary: full committed name. Online payments top out at $300, by Visa or MasterCard credit card only	Same posting windows as Western Union

Anything besides the payment in a lockbox envelope is thrown away. A transfer accepted under a wrong register number or name “may not be returned,” the handbook warns, and Terre Haute staff cannot trace a lockbox deposit; the Bureau answers deposit questions at 202-307-2712, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern. The handbook also makes it a prohibited act for a prisoner to take money from another prisoner’s family, so send money only for the man you know. Commissary spending is capped at $460 a month, as explained below. Our guide to sending money to a federal inmate compares fees.

What are the visiting hours at FCI Terre Haute?

At the FCI, visiting is 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays, and federal holidays, with no one admitted after 2 p.m.; at the camp, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays, and federal holidays, plus a Friday session only the handbook mentions. These hours come from Institution Supplement THX-5267.09D, “Visiting Regulations,” dated November 20, 2020, still the one the Bureau’s page for this prison links.

That supplement predates a 2023 change notice to the Bureau’s visiting rules requiring procedures for legal access after a disruption and for notifying families of visiting changes, and it contains neither; it also cites Program Statement 5510.15, on searching visitors, which the Bureau replaced in 2026 with new visitor-search rules. Call the institution at 812-238-1531 before a long drive. The 2021 handbook gives 812-244-4400 as “the telephone number to the institution,” but the Bureau’s roster lists that number for the penitentiary.

On weekend and holiday mornings, visitor processing stops at 9:00 a.m. and resumes once the 10 a.m. count clears, and from 9:30 until then prisoners may not enter or leave the visiting room. No one may enter the grounds before 7:50 a.m. or park or stand along Bureau Road. An FCI prisoner gets seven visits a calendar month, any part of a day counting as one and unused visits lapsing; camp prisoners are not charged or limited. If a disruptive event leads the prison to restrict visiting, the Bureau’s legal activities rules, Program Statement 1315.08 (2026), require staff to make “all reasonable efforts” to tell families by telephone, email, or the institution’s webpage.

Who can visit, and how many

His list may hold immediate family and up to ten friends or associates who knew him before prison. The complex also counts step-siblings raised with him, if that can be verified, and it accepts a common-law spouse only when the relationship was established in a state that recognizes that status. A friend proves the earlier relationship by mailing the unit team something like a co-signed lease, a utility bill, or a dated, signed letter, and every applicant returns a BP-S629 form authorizing an NCIC records check.

Five visitors may sit with him at once unless the unit manager approves more. Children under 16 need an adult who is also on the list, and from 16 a visitor must be listed personally and carry photo ID. The list changes no more than once every 30 days, and the handbook asks for additions three weeks ahead. Attorney visits, and one visit a month from his minister of record, do not count against the seven, and a man held here in transit may at first be limited to immediate family if no visiting list came with him.

What visitors can wear and bring

FCI visitors may not wear orange, camouflage, khaki, or yellow; FCI prisoners change into a yellow jumpsuit at the visiting room, and camp men visit in issued green clothing with a belt. The supplement also bars hooded tops, cargo pockets, jerseys, sweatpants, jogging suits, scrubs, yoga pants, sleeveless, low-cut, or see-through tops, bare midriffs, garments above the knee except on children 12 and under, and footwear that is open at the toe or back, flip-flop style, or higher than the ankle. Jewelry is limited to stud earrings and a wedding band.

Carry almost nothing: a clear plastic bag no larger than a large wallet (bigger for a baby’s things) and up to $20 in ones, fives, or coins for vending machines that take only $1 and $5 bills and refund nothing. Coats go on the rack, and the visiting room officer holds medication and feminine-hygiene items. No food, gum, toys, or packages, and nothing to hand to or show the prisoner. See federal prison visitation.

Identification, screening, and searches

Visitors 16 and older show a valid photo ID, which the front entrance officer keeps during FCI and camp visits; the 2021 handbook asks for two pieces of identification, one with a photo, and rejects birth certificates, so bring two. Every visitor signs the Notification to Visitor form, BP-A0224, with its Title 18 penalty warning, at the front entrance; pre-filled or photocopied copies are refused.

FCI screening combines a walk-through metal detector, random same-sex pat searches, and random ion-spectrometry drug tests, and a positive reading can mean the visit is denied; the handbook says every visitor is tested electronically. FCI prisoners are strip searched going into the visiting room and coming out, camp prisoners at random. A kiss and embrace are allowed at the start and end, after an officer checks both mouths with a flashlight. See searches, shakedowns, and contraband.

Visiting at the camp

The camp’s visiting days are recorded twice, and the records disagree. The 2020 supplement allows camp visits on Saturdays, Sundays, and federal holidays “during the following hours only,” 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and visitors are not let into the visiting room after 2 p.m. without the operations lieutenant’s or duty officer’s permission. The handbook, eleven months newer, says “additional visiting hours for Camp inmates are on Friday from 2 to 8 p.m.” Neither document says which schedule the camp keeps now, so confirm a Friday visit by phone before you travel.

The camp’s extra rules suit grounds without a fence. Visits take place in the visiting room or its outdoor area, where no one may sit on the ground or sunbathe, and never across the road or in the driveway; there is no greeting at the officer’s desk outside, on the front drive, or by a car; a camp prisoner may not walk visitors to the camp’s front entrance; and once a visit begins he may not leave the visiting area without the camp control officer’s approval. The supplement lists the camp at 2501 West Bureau Road.

Visiting a man in the FCI’s Special Housing Unit

A man in the FCI’s Special Housing Unit can have non-contact visits in the unit if the unit team and the captain approve each in advance, which the supplement says takes at least two weeks. Visits run on ordinary FCI visiting days, last up to two hours, admit two visitors, and total no more than four hours a month; visitors are not processed after 1 p.m., and the prisoner stays in handcuffs and leg irons. Space is short, and SHU visiting “could be restricted to one visit a month.”

Getting there

Both Bureau documents place the prison about four miles south of Terre Haute, west of Highway 63. Use the main entrance and follow the signs. No bus runs there from downtown Terre Haute; the supplement suggests a taxi from the bus station or Hulman Regional Airport. No one may wait in the parking lot or linger on the grounds, pets are banned from the reservation even inside a car, and once inside you may not return to your car without the front entrance’s permission.

How do phone calls and email work at FCI Terre Haute?

Men at FCI Terre Haute place outgoing calls, up to 510 minutes a calendar month, and send text-only messages through TRULINCS; you cannot call them. Under the Bureau’s telephone regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, issued September 3, 2026, the first 300 of those minutes cost nothing for a man eligible for First Step Act telephone incentives, and any prisoner who uses up the 300 may buy the other 210. A single call should generally not exceed 15 minutes, 30 minutes must pass between completed calls, and properly arranged unmonitored legal calls do not count against the limit. The complex’s 2021 handbook still says prisoners “may not exceed 300 minutes of ITS time in a month”; the 2026 program statement replaced that rule. See federal inmate phone calls.

Under the handbook, unit phones run “from 6 a.m. until lockdown each day,” money moves to the telephone account after 4 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends, and a man may keep 30 numbers, changed “at any time” through TRULINCS on one page and “up to two times a month” through the counselor on another, so ask the counselor. For an unmonitored call to his lawyer he must show the unit team why he needs one, an imminent court deadline being the handbook’s example, and the call is at his expense. Chapel emergency calls use the same system, so the handbook tells men not to use up “their entire monthly telephone minutes early in the month.”

Messages run through TRULINCS, which the handbook describes as text-only and charged by the minute; our CorrLinks and TRULINCS guide explains how contact is set up.

What can people buy at the FCI Terre Haute commissary?

The commissary spending limit at FCI Terre Haute is $460 a month, set nationally by the Bureau’s trust fund rules: Program Statement 4500.13, issued May 7, 2026, raised it from $360. Every Terre Haute document is older. The complex’s 2021 handbook permits “$180.00 every two weeks,” capped by “the National Spending Limit of $360.00 per month,” and its 2022 commissary forms still print “FCI/FPC/USP $180/BI-WEEKLY.” Neither figure is current.

The posted documents do not say how the $460 is now spread across the month. The handbook ties monthly revalidation to the register number: multiply its fifth digit by three and add one (12345-678 revalidates on the 16th). The forms print a two-week figure, and the program statement allows for weekly or bi-weekly validation, so ask the commissary. A man in refusal status under the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program is held to $25 a month.

Fans count against the limit, because they are not among the program statement’s exclusions, which reach only postage, nicotine patches and lozenges, over-the-counter medicine and supplements, footwear, mattresses, copy cards and paper, the secured media device, and kosher or halal entrees for men refusing IFRP payments. The general population form sells a “MASSEY 8 INCH FAN” for $34.00, limit one, under the heading “fan sold at FCI/Camp Only.” In a prison where the Inspector General found air conditioning in only 2 of the FCI’s 10 active housing units in July 2025, a fan comes out of the same $460 as food and soap. The limit rises by $50 during the November and December holiday period, for no more than one validation period, and special purchase orders are capped at $600 a quarter.

Shopping is once a week on the housing unit’s day, with no refunds or exchanges. The 2022 forms limit stamps to $11.60, soups to 24 and canned drinks to 48, allow one MP3 player at $88.40 and one pair of shoes or boots, up to $94.95 Wolverine boots, and stock a Swintec typewriter ribbon at $7.85 and a script wheel at $23.50; prices will have changed since. See federal commissary items.

What programs are available at FCI Terre Haute?

FCI Terre Haute’s two residential programs of note are the Residential Drug Abuse Program and STAGES, which the Bureau runs at only two prisons. In its August 2026 First Step Act Approved Programs Guide, the Bureau names FCI Terre Haute for those two and for Federal Prison Industries, and for no other program by name; most entries say only “May be offered at all BOP institutions,” which is permission, not proof that a program runs here. Ask the unit team in writing what is offered and how long the wait is.

RDAP and drug treatment

The Residential Drug Abuse Program is at the FCI: the guide’s 2026 list of “57 RDAPS at 50 Locations” includes “FCI Terre Haute (IN),” and the 2021 handbook heads its description “FCI only.” The 2021 PREA audit described a unit for up to 96 men in a nine-month residential program. Men are ordinarily interviewed 24 to 42 months before release, the handbook says, and 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e) lets the Bureau grant a nonviolent prisoner who completes the program up to a year off his term.

The camp is not on that list, although the guide names RDAP at other satellite camps, including Cumberland, Leavenworth, and Lewisburg, so a camp prisoner who wants the program should ask whether it would mean a transfer, and how that affects his timing.

STAGES

The guide lists STAGES at two locations, “FLP, THA”: USP Florence – High in Colorado, and this prison. It is a unit-based residential psychology program for people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, using a modified therapeutic community, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and skills training; its typical participant has a history of long restrictive-housing placements, repeated incident reports, or suicide watches. The 2021 audit rated the FCI’s unit for 48 men, and a 2017 Inspector General review described a program of 12 to 18 months in half-day sessions. A man with years in segregation can raise it with his unit team.

Education, vocational training, and UNICOR

The handbook requires a man without a high school diploma to attend literacy classes for at least 240 instructional hours or until he earns a GED, since good conduct time depends on it, and lists English as a second language, evening and weekend adult continuing education, a leisure library, and an electronic law library. The 2021 auditor recorded education and vocational areas at the FCI, including carpentry, and at the camp, where a diesel mechanic program built on camp men’s work at the National Bus Center and a dog program prepared puppies for assistance-dog training. The guide’s sixteen Pell-funded college sites do not include FCI Terre Haute. See education and vocational training.

The guide names FCI Terre Haute, and not the penitentiary, in its Federal Prison Industries location list, and the 2021 audit described “a UNICOR factory” at the FCI and a UNICOR warehouse at the camp. An August 2025 UNICOR solicitation on SAM.gov lists a “TERRE HAUTE TEXTILE MILL” at the FCI’s street address, but the D.C. Corrections Information Council placed a UNICOR textile factory at the penitentiary in 2016, so which building houses it now is unclear. The handbook warns that “a limited number of jobs are available in UNICOR.”

Faith-based and reentry programs

Life Connections, the Bureau’s 18-month residential faith-based program, is not one the guide places at the FCI; its five named sites include the penitentiary on the same complex, and the handbook says a man applies in writing through the chaplain’s office and a Central Office coordinator decides. See religious programs in federal prison.

The 2021 handbook says release preparation classes begin about 30 months before release, but the Bureau’s Release Preparation Program rules, Program Statement 5325.09 (2026), now enroll men 18 to 24 months before they leave the institution, so ask the unit team which timetable applies. First Step Act earned time credits depend on completing approved programs and productive activities, so get the unit team’s answer on availability in writing.

What is daily life like at FCI Terre Haute?

Daily life at FCI Terre Haute runs on a tight count schedule in a 1940 building that is hot in summer, since most housing units lack air conditioning; the camp keeps the same timetable.

The heat

While Inspector General staff were at the FCI from July 28–30, 2025, outside highs of 92 and 93 degrees Fahrenheit produced readings of 79 to 89 degrees in housing-unit common areas and cells, against a Bureau summer target of 76, with humidity from 62 to 94 percent. Only 2 of the 10 active housing units were air-conditioned, and the institution does not hand out the small fans some men had bought from the commissary.

The Bureau replied on September 29, 2025, that it had installed 40 more fans, issued a heat-stress bulletin, found “no heat related illnesses” reported at the FCI in 2025, and gives men at greater risk “priority placement in the G2 and G3 housing units,” which it described as climate controlled. The Inspector General closed its heat recommendation while warning that such temperatures could recur. A man whose health or medication makes heat dangerous should ask for G2 or G3 in writing.

The shape of the day

The complex’s 2021 handbook sets out the daily timetable summarized in this table.

When	What happens
5:30 a.m.	Wake-up; units locked since the 9:30 p.m. count reopen
6:00 a.m.	Unit telephones come on
Breakfast	Sick-call triage sign-up on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
Working hours	Work assignments, school, and call-out appointments
Non-working hours	Controlled movement: moves generally open ten minutes before the hour and close on the hour
10:00 a.m. on weekends and holidays	Standing count
4:00 p.m.	Standing count; the next day’s call-outs are posted afterward
Evening meal	Moves to recreation, education, the library, or the chapel
9:15 p.m.	Lockdown announced
9:30 p.m.	Standing count, then units locked until 5:30 a.m.
Overnight	Counts at about midnight, 3 a.m., and 5 a.m.

FCI men work in a brown T-shirt and khaki pants, camp men in green. A man may keep three magazines, five books, seven days of newspapers, 25 letters, one radio or MP3 player, and one watch; crocheting and sketching are allowed only in housing areas, and tobacco in any form is contraband.

Health care

FCI Health Services is in N-Building, and the camp’s is in the hallway east of Control. Sick-call triage opens four mornings a week, Wednesdays are for blood-pressure and blood-sugar checks, and requests cannot go through TRULINCS; a missed medical call-out can bring an incident report. A health services representative attends lunch every weekday at the FCI but only on Thursdays at the camp. A health care visit he asks for, such as sick call, costs $2, with exemptions such as chronic care and emergencies, and none is taken from a man whose account has not held $6.00 or more in the past 30 days.

The handbook says periodic physicals “are no longer required,” although its table of patient rights says a man may request a routine physical every two years before age 50 and yearly after that, so treat a physical as something to ask for. See medical care in federal prison and the Bureau’s patient care rules.

What do inspectors say about conditions at FCI Terre Haute?

The latest outside examination of FCI Terre Haute is the Inspector General’s memorandum of October 1, 2025, on heat, pests, and failing windows at the FCI. Before it come two Inspector General reviews with site work at the complex, a 2016 visit by the District of Columbia’s prison monitor, two PREA audits of the complex, and 2026 allegation counts from the Government Accountability Office.

The Inspector General’s October 2025 memorandum

The memorandum, Report 26-001, grew out of site work for the Inspector General’s evaluation of the Bureau’s use of lockdowns and modified operations, and it concerns the medium-security prison only. Besides the heat, the team found dry and canned food stored at 88 degrees, with insects and likely evidence of insect and rodent droppings, and window frames that the prison’s own records call “part of the original construction from 1940” and “so brittle that window panes fall out”; some had been patched with cardboard, tape, and a towel.

New windows would cost about $15.9 million, some 15 percent of a $108,035,000 list of major repairs for the medium-security prison alone, not counting the camp or the penitentiary, led by a $28 million tunnel infrastructure upgrade and a $23.5 million roof replacement. Of the three recommendations, on heat, pests, and temporary window repairs, the Inspector General’s report page listed only pest control as open as of September 2026, with the status “Resolved.” The memorandum calls the July 2025 trip a site visit; the Bureau’s reply also calls it “OIG’s inspection of FCI Terre Haute.” The lockdowns evaluation behind it was still listed as ongoing in September 2026.

Earlier federal and local reviews

For a July 2017 review of restrictive housing for prisoners with mental illness (Evaluation and Inspections Report 17-05), Inspector General staff visited FCC Terre Haute during site work between June and August 2015 and recorded that the complex “emphasized diverting inmates, including inmates with mental illness, from the SHU whenever possible.”

The District of Columbia Corrections Information Council visited the FCI on September 16, 2016, interviewed five D.C. residents and toured the drug-treatment and STAGES units, but its June 2017 report promises a summary “included in this addendum” that the published file does not contain. A federal court’s 2023 findings quote a June 2016 American Correctional Association audit that rated FCI Terre Haute’s sanitation “outstanding.”

The PREA audits

The current audit under the Prison Rape Elimination Act covers the whole complex. Lynni O’Haver of Corrections Consulting Services was on site from December 10–12, 2024, and issued her final report on December 24, 2024, finding 45 standards met and none exceeded or failed. In December 2024 the complex had a designated capacity of 2,110 and a population of 2,676, with 2,751 men housed on the audit’s first day, and two PREA compliance managers, one for the penitentiary and one for the FCI and camp. Over the twelve months before the visit the complex logged 17 sexual abuse allegations and 10 sexual harassment allegations, and the auditor examined the files on 14 of those 27.

The superseded 2022 audit report is still online, though the facility page no longer links it: Jennifer L. Feicht, an independent auditor subcontracted by PREA Auditors of America, was on site from December 7–9, 2021, and reported on April 4, 2022, finding one standard exceeded and 44 met. It is the main published source on the FCI’s layout and lists fixes made there during the audit, such as covers for G-Unit urinals that were open to view.

Allegation counts from the GAO

The Government Accountability Office’s May 2026 report GAO-26-107343 lists 13 allegations at FCI Terre Haute naming a prisoner as the perpetrator, for incidents in 2020 through 2024 (Table 7), and 68 naming a Bureau employee, by year reported (Table 8), 32 of them in 2023. The tables come from different Bureau systems and are never added together. These are allegations, not findings: GAO says most allegations nationally from 2014 through 2022 ended as unsubstantiated, meaning the evidence could not show whether the conduct happened, not that it did not. The counts are not adjusted for population and cannot rank prisons.

Staff prosecutions

• December 2019: Leon Perry III, formerly the camp’s reservation patrol officer, was sentenced to 30 months for bribery and escape-related crimes; prosecutors said he took cash, prescription medication, and other items to let camp men leave the grounds, have sexual encounters on the property and at nearby hotels, and bring in phones, drugs, and alcohol, and described the camp as having “no perimeter fencing.”
• October 2023: Shauna Boatright, a correctional treatment specialist at the Terre Haute complex who had been assigned to a man in its drug abuse program, was sentenced to a year and a day for bribery; the Inspector General said she had supplied contraband tobacco to prisoners for about $9,800 in electronic payments.
• July 2026: Trent Tinkle, a cook foreman supervisor at the FCI, was arrested on an indictment charging that on or about February 25, 2025, he deprived a prisoner of his rights by striking him and throwing him to the floor. An indictment is an accusation, and he is presumed innocent.

FCI Terre Haute in the news

Recent news about FCI Terre Haute centers on a staff member’s civil-rights indictment, a death at the FCI, the Inspector General’s heat memorandum, and the closure of the Communications Management Unit; older items concern COVID-19 deaths, a staff bribery sentence, the al-Kassar ruling, and a former camp officer’s sentence. Dated events, newest first.

• July 20, 2026: The Inspector General announces the arrest of an FCI cook foreman supervisor on a civil-rights indictment.
• February 9, 2026: The Bureau’s release “Death at FCI Terre Haute” reports that a 45-year-old man at the FCI, there since June 2025, was found unresponsive and later pronounced deceased by hospital personnel.
• October 2, 2025: The Inspector General releases its memorandum on heat, pests, and windows at the FCI.
• September 9, 2025: A federal court in Indiana records the closure of the FCI’s Communications Management Unit.
• October 31, 2023: A former correctional treatment specialist at the complex is sentenced for bribery.
• September 28, 2023: The Southern District of Indiana rules against al-Kassar after a bench trial over the CMU’s segregation cells.
• December 2020 to February 2021: The Bureau announces the deaths of three FCI prisoners who had tested positive for COVID-19.
• September 2020: The Bureau posted one news release reporting the death of a person held at FCI Terre Haute; the Bureau’s releases are listed on its press release page.
• December 5, 2019: A former camp officer is sentenced to 30 months.

Frequently asked questions about FCI Terre Haute

Problems at FCI Terre Haute: where we can help

The record at FCI Terre Haute points to recurring problems: summer heat, access for men who use wheelchairs, legal calls, the legacy of the Communications Management Unit, drug-treatment timing, and staff misconduct.

• Heat and health. Cells reached 89 degrees in July 2025, and the Bureau gives men at higher risk priority for G2 and G3, so document the medical reason in writing. If refused, the administrative remedy program expects the first formal request within 20 calendar days of the event, extended only for a valid reason.
• Disability and designation. The Bureau said in 2017 that the FCI and camp are not accessible for long-term wheelchair use, and placement turns on care levels and Public Safety Factors; see federal prison transfers and our federal prison consulting services.
• Reaching a lawyer. The Duka case began with a refused legal call, and the handbook allows unmonitored attorney calls only on a shown need; see the law library and legal access.
• Former CMU designations, for a man whose records still carry his time in the Terre Haute unit.
• Drug treatment timing. RDAP is at the FCI but not on the list for the camp, and interviews ordinarily come 24 to 42 months before release under the 2021 handbook, so the timing of admission can limit how much of any § 3621(e) reduction he actually receives. First Step Act time credits also turn on the programs he completes; see RDAP and early release and early release from federal prison.
• Staff misconduct and injury, including Federal Tort Claims Act claims, which the handbook sends to the North Central Regional Office in Kansas City, and disciplinary hearings that put good conduct time at stake.
• Compassionate release motions where age or illness is central to the case.
• 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 Terre Haute, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The Bureau’s page for the institution, with its addresses, phone numbers, and posted documents.
• General Population Commissary List, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute, 2022.
• Admission and Orientation Handbook, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute, 2021.
• Visiting Regulations, Institution Supplement THX-5267.09D, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute, 2020.
• Inmate Legal Activities, Program Statement 1315.08, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026.
• Administrative Remedy Program, Program Statement 1330.18, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2014.
• Trust Fund/Deposit Fund Manual, Program Statement 4500.13, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Sets the commissary spending limit.
• Inmate Security Designation and Custody Classification, Program Statement 5100.08, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2006. Amended in 2026.
• Communications Management Units, Program Statement 5214.05, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026.
• Inmate Telephone Regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Replaced Program Statement 5264.08 (2008).
• Visiting Regulations, Program Statement 5267.09, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2015. Amended in 2023.
• Release Preparation Program, Program Statement 5325.09, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026.
• Searching, Detaining, or Arresting Visitors to Bureau Grounds and Facilities, Program Statement 5510.16, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Replaced Program Statement 5510.15 (2013).
• Death at FCI Terre Haute, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. News release.
• Inmate Death at FCI Terre Haute, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2021. News release of February 2021.
• Inmate Death at FCI Terre Haute, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2021. News release of January 2021.
• Inmate Death at FCI Terre Haute, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2020. News release of December 2020.
• Press Releases, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2020.
• First Step Act Approved Programs Guide, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Reentry Services Division, 2026. Includes the Bureau’s RDAP locations list.
• Sending Money, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The Bureau’s instructions for the lockbox, Western Union, and MoneyGram.
• Federal Executions, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026.
• 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.

Audits and inspections

• Federal Prisons: Improvements Needed to Prevent, Detect, and Address Sexual Abuse, U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2026. Report GAO-26-107343.
• Notification of Concerns Regarding Conditions at Federal Correctional Institution Terre Haute, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2025. Management Advisory Memorandum 26-001.
• PREA Audit Report: Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) Terre Haute, Corrections Consulting Services, 2024. Lynni O’Haver’s audit of the whole complex.
• PREA Facility Audit Report: FCC Terre Haute, PREA Auditors of America, 2022. Jennifer L. Feicht’s audit; superseded by the 2024 audit.
• Audit of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Monitoring of Inmate Communications to Prevent Radicalization, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2020. Audit Report 20-042.
• USP Terre Haute Inspection Report, District of Columbia Corrections Information Council, 2017. Includes the Bureau’s 2017 response.
• Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Use of Restrictive Housing for Inmates with Mental Illness, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2017. Evaluation and Inspections Report 17-05.

Court records

• BOP Cook Foreman Supervisor Indicted and Arrested for Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2026. Trent Tinkle’s arrest on the indictment.
• Duka v. Marshall, No. 1:25-cv-03111-BAH (D.D.C.), U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2026. The docket, including the April 2026 opinion.
• Muse v. Warden, No. 1:25-cv-02884-ABA (D. Md.), U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 2026. The docket, including the June 2026 decision.
• Duka v. Rule, No. 2:25-cv-00224-JPH-MG (S.D. Ind.), U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, 2025. The docket, including the September 2025 order recording the closures.
• al-Kassar v. Julian, No. 2:18-cv-00086 (S.D. Ind.), U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, 2023. The docket, including the September 2023 decision after a bench trial.
• Former Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer Sentenced to A Year in Federal Prison for Accepting Bribes from Inmates to Smuggle Tobacco, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Indiana, 2023. Shauna Boatright’s sentence; reposted by the Inspector General.
• Former BOP Correctional Treatment Specialist Charged and Pleaded Guilty to Bribery of a Public Official, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2023. Shauna Boatright’s charge and guilty plea.
• Corrupt Terre Haute Federal Correctional Officer Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Indiana, 2019. Leon Perry III’s sentence; reposted by the Inspector General.
• Terre Haute Federal Correctional Officer Faces Multiple Bribery and Permitting Escape Charges, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Indiana, 2017. The charges against Leon Perry III; reposted by the Inspector General.
• Aref v. Lynch, 833 F.3d 242 (D.C. Cir. 2016), U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 2016.
• United States v. Duka, 671 F.3d 329 (3d Cir. 2011), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2011.
• United States v. Al Kassar, 660 F.3d 108 (2d Cir. 2011), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2011.
• Aref v. Holder, 774 F. Supp. 2d 147 (D.D.C. 2011), U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2011.

News and other sources

• Slide Fasteners, UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries), 2025. A solicitation on SAM.gov naming the Terre Haute Textile Mill.
• Communications Management Units, Federal Bureau of Prisons (Federal Register), 2015. The final rule.
• Peregrine Financial Group CEO Sentenced To 50 Years For Fraud, Embezzlement, And Lying To Regulators, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Iowa, 2013. Russell Wasendorf’s sentence.
• Man Sentenced in Boston for Plotting Attack on Pentagon and U.S. Capitol and Attempting to Provide Detonation Devices to Terrorists, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division, 2012. Rezwan Ferdaus’s sentence.
• Noted Scientist Sentenced to 13-Year Prison Term for Attempted Espionage, Fraud and Tax Charges, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, 2012. Stewart Nozette’s sentence.
• Virginia Man Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison for Plotting Attacks on D.C.-Area Metro Stations with People He Believed to Be Al-Qaeda Members, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, 2011. Farooque Ahmed’s sentence.
• Aldrich Ames, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Undated history page.
• 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e), Imprisonment of a convicted person, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 28 C.F.R. §§ 540.200–.205, Communications Management Housing Units, Code of Federal Regulations (Legal Information Institute).

Sources reviewed September 2026.

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