The United States Penitentiary, McCreary (USP McCreary) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Kentucky. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent minimum-security satellite camp for male offenders. USP McCreary is located approximately north of Knoxville, Tennessee, south of Lexington, Kentucky and south of Cincinnati, Ohio.