FCI Victorville Medium II: Visiting, Mail, Programs

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

FCI Victorville Medium II at a glance

FCI Victorville Medium II is a medium-security federal prison for men in Victorville, California, one of three prisons at Federal Correctional Complex Victorville and one of the federal prisons in California. It held 1,327 people as of September 2026 and has no camp of its own.

Official name	Federal Correctional Institution, Victorville Medium II
BOP code	VVM · complex VIX
Security level	Medium; men · at times, U.S. Marshals Service pretrial and holdover detainees
Population	1,327 (as of September 2026)
Visiting	Saturday, Sunday, Monday and federal holidays, 8:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m. · see visiting hours
Inmate mail	Inmate Name & Register Number · FCI Victorville Medium II · Federal Correctional Institution · P.O. Box 3850 · Adelanto, CA 92301
Send money	Lockbox · Western Union (code city FBOP, DC) · MoneyGram (receive code 7932)
Phone	760-530-5700 · Fax 760-530-5706
Street address	13777 Air Expressway Boulevard, Victorville, CA 92394 · San Bernardino County
Judicial district	Central District of California
BOP region	Western
Housing	Two-person cells
Special Housing Unit	Yes
Medical care level	Level 2
Mental health care level	Level 2
RDAP	No
UNICOR	No
Camp	No · see why the camp’s mail goes through Medium II

The complex stands on the grounds of the former George Air Force Base in San Bernardino County, about 97 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the Bureau’s Western Region; its other two prisons are FCI Victorville Medium I and USP Victorville. What sets this institution apart is a second job: when the U.S. Marshals Service needs bed space in Southern California, it holds pretrial and holdover detainees for the Southern District of California, and its visiting supplement builds a separate legal-access regime around them.

Three federal prisons share one address in Victorville

Three separate federal prisons operate at 13777 Air Expressway Boulevard in Victorville, each with its own warden, its own telephone number and its own post office box. They are not interchangeable, the Bureau’s public tools do not always make that obvious, and a mix-up can send a letter back or money to the wrong account.

The three institutions, their codes and their post office boxes

Institution	Code	Security	Population (September 2026)	Phone	Inmate mail
FCI Victorville Medium II (this page)	VVM	Medium	1,327	760-530-5700	P.O. Box 3850, Adelanto, CA 92301
FCI Victorville Medium I	VIM	Medium	1,595, camp included	760-246-2400	P.O. Box 3725, Adelanto, CA 92301
USP Victorville	VIP	High	1,001	760-530-5000	P.O. Box 3900, Adelanto, CA 92301

Two details in the table trip people up. The first is the city: the prisons stand in Victorville, their mail goes to Adelanto next door, and the ZIP code changes with it. The second is how close the three box numbers are — 3725, 3850, 3900. A transposed digit does not bounce; it delivers to a different prison.

As of September 2026 the Bureau counts 3,923 people on the campus: 3,697 men in the three prisons and 226 women at the camp. The complex runs on consolidated staffing — a Complex Captain and a Complex Case Management Coordinator with a deputy at each institution, seven chaplains shared across the campus, one commissary operation for all of it. That is why so much of the paperwork says “FCC Victorville” rather than naming the individual prison, including the admission and orientation handbook, which the Bureau publishes as the same file under all three facility pages.

The camp, and why its address sits under Medium II

There is also a minimum-security satellite camp at Victorville, and it holds women. It does not belong to this institution — but the Bureau’s own records do not agree on that, and the confusion decides where a family’s mail goes.

• The Bureau’s facility roster marks Medium I, not this institution, as having a camp.
• The Bureau’s address listing for this institution includes an “Inmate Mail/Parcels – Camp” address: P.O. Box 5300, Adelanto, CA 92301. Medium I’s listing has no camp address at all, and the Bureau’s page for this institution publishes that camp block under the heading “FCI Victorville Medium II … Satellite Camp.”
• The March 2022 complex visiting supplement lists the camp’s telephone number as 760-530-5700 — this institution’s number — and heads its lactation-room paragraph “Nursing Mothers (FCI II Victorville – SCP).”
• The camp’s own commissary order form is approved by the acting warden of Medium I. The order form posted for this institution has signed approval lines for the complex warden and both medium wardens, N. T. McKinney and J. Doerer.

The practical rule follows the Bureau’s published mail addresses: a letter to a woman at the Victorville camp goes to P.O. Box 5300, whichever institution administers her; a letter to a man at this institution goes to P.O. Box 3850. To reach the camp by telephone, call 760-530-5700, the number both documents give.

Reading a result from the Inmate Locator

The Bureau’s Inmate Locator reports a facility by short name, and at Victorville those names are one character apart: “Victorville Medium II” is this prison, “Victorville Medium I” the other medium across the road, “Victorville USP” the penitentiary. Behind them sit the codes VVM, VIM and VIP, which the underlying record carries alongside the name; a slip between the two mediums is how a man held at Medium I ends up described elsewhere as being here.

Read the result twice and count the Roman numerals before addressing an envelope or booking a flight. The difference between VIM and VVM is one letter and two prisons, and California’s federal roster carries several other name collisions, which our guide to federal prisons in California sets out in full.

What is the security level at FCI Victorville Medium II?

FCI Victorville Medium II is a medium-security institution on the Bureau’s roster, and the complex’s own handbook says so in terms: “The FCI Victorville I is a medium security institution. The FCI Victorville II is a medium security institution. The USP Victorville is a high security institution.”

Medium security here means a secured perimeter, cell housing rather than dormitories, and controlled movement. The DC Corrections Information Council, which toured this institution in May 2014, recorded twelve housing units of 64 cells each plus a 96-cell Special Housing Unit, general population built as two-person cells — and recorded that staff and prisoners both described three men living in some of those cells. That 2014 account remains the most detailed public description of this prison’s housing. The same report records medical care level 2 and mental health care level 2.

Whether a man is sent here rather than to a low, a penitentiary or a camp is decided before he arrives, at the Designation and Sentence Computation Center, from the security point score set out in the Bureau’s security designation and custody classification rules. A Public Safety Factor can hold a low-scoring man above camp level, and a Management Variable can pull the other way; both are decided on paper a defense lawyer can see and answer. Our guides to designation, the intake process and preparing for prison cover the first weeks after a designation lands.

Does FCI Victorville Medium II hold pretrial detainees?

FCI Victorville Medium II holds U.S. Marshals Service pretrial and holdover detainees at times, and no other institution at this complex does. The complex visiting supplement (2022) builds a separate legal-access regime around them, but treats the mission as conditional, repeating the phrase “while USMS inmates are housed at that facility,” so none of what follows is guaranteed to be running on the day you call.

When the institution is holding people for the Marshals, the supplement provides:

• Legal visiting “available seven days a week, to the extent practicable” — against the Saturday, Sunday, Monday and holiday schedule that governs social visiting across the whole complex, plus Tuesday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
• A single mailbox, VIX-LegalCallVisitUSMS-S@bop.gov, for legal visits and calls, paralegal and investigator clearances, court reporters and expert witnesses. Staff monitor it Monday through Friday, so a Friday-evening request is a Monday request.
• Two discovery computers in the visiting room, first come first served, bookable through that mailbox. Here a lawyer may carry electronic discovery in on a DVD, an external drive or a USB stick; everywhere else in the complex that needs advance approval.
• Video legal visits for detainees from the Southern District of California, scheduled by the Marshals Service rather than the prison and emailed to the institution the day before. A detainee who misses one is written an incident report.
• A legal-mail drop box in the front lobby, so an attorney can post compliant special mail to a client on the way out. Handing legal papers across a visiting-room table is prohibited here as everywhere else.
• An attorney may see several clients on one visit using the institution’s multiple-inmate request form, with no more than two waiting in the common area at once.

The trade-off falls on families. Under the same supplement, “visiting for inmates on Pretrial or Holdover Status at FCI II will be limited to immediate family members verified through the inmate’s Pre-Sentence Investigation Report or through certified records.” A long-term partner or a close friend will not get on the list while that status holds. Gather certified copies before the first visit request, not after it is refused.

One more sign of the detention mission sits in the supplement’s boilerplate: alongside the usual American Correctional Association prison standards it cites the ACA’s performance-based standards for adult local detention facilities, which federal prisons do not normally carry. The Bureau’s roster also marks this institution as an Institutional Hearing Program site, where immigration hearings are held.

Who are the notable inmates at FCI Victorville Medium II?

No well-known person is currently held at FCI Victorville Medium II, according to the Bureau’s records. Several names often attached to this institution belong elsewhere, and some of those people were never held here.

Name and register number	Where the Bureau’s records place them	Why the name is attached to Victorville
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 73079-065	FCI Sandstone, Minnesota. Projected release July 3, 2036	Convicted in the District of Oregon of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. A different man with a near-identical name, register 22868-298, was released from Victorville Medium I in November 2021
Miguel Ángel Caro-Quintero, 02921-748	Released July 19, 2019. His last recorded facility was Victorville Medium I, not this institution	Sonora Cartel figure; his drug-trafficking sentence ended in 2019
Fazliddin Kurbanov, 15148-023	USP Allenwood, Pennsylvania. Projected release June 3, 2052	He attacked the warden of this institution in 2016 — see the news section. He has not been held here since
Ayman Shahid, 19755-111	Released September 11, 2019 from a residential reentry office in Sacramento	Mortgage and bank fraud; the 46-month sentence is long finished
Samuel Bankman-Fried, 37244-510	FCI Lompoc II, California. Projected release May 3, 2044	Fortune reported in April 2025 that he had been moved to “a medium-security prison in Victorville” for about two days before going on to a low-security prison in Los Angeles. The reporting never said which of the two Victorville mediums, and the Bureau has not since placed him here

The register number is the only reliable key to where someone is held: names repeat, as the two men named Mohamed Osman Mohamud show.

How do I find someone at FCI Victorville Medium II?

Search the Bureau’s free public Inmate Locator, which covers everyone in federal custody since 1982: for someone still held it gives the facility and a projected release date, and for someone released it shows “Not in BOP Custody as of” and a date, with no facility. Search by the eight-digit register number where you have it; search by committed name where you do not, remembering that the Bureau matches the name on the judgment rather than the name the family uses. Our guide to how federal register numbers work explains how the number is built and why the last three digits identify the sentencing district rather than the prison.

A blank result usually means one of three things: the person is in state custody and not federal at all; he is a pretrial defendant in the hands of the U.S. Marshals and not yet designated, in which case the locator may show nothing even though he is physically inside a federal prison; or the committed name differs from the name you searched. The second is a live possibility here. If you believe someone is at this institution and the locator disagrees, call 760-530-5700 and ask for the Records Office.

How do I write to someone at FCI Victorville Medium II?

Mail for someone at FCI Victorville Medium II goes to P.O. Box 3850 in Adelanto, not to the prison’s street address in Victorville. The committed name and register number go on the first line.

For someone at this institution	For a woman at the Victorville satellite camp
Inmate Name & Register Number FCI Victorville Medium II Federal Correctional Institution P.O. Box 3850 Adelanto, CA 92301	Inmate Name & Register Number FCI Victorville Medium II Federal Correctional Institution Satellite Camp P.O. Box 5300 Adelanto, CA 92301

The handbook’s rule about spelling the institution’s name out in full covers mail the men send out, not letters coming in (FCC Victorville handbook, p. 43).

The local mail rules are stricter than most in the system, and they reject more family mail than anything else here:

• Incoming general correspondence must be in a white envelope and written on white paper. Colored paper, card stock, or anything drawn in crayon or marker is rejected — a child’s drawing in color does not arrive.
• Address labels are not accepted, for the sender or the recipient. Both must be written in ink or applied with an address stamp.
• Anything sprayed with perfume or cologne is rejected.
• Homemade greeting cards are rejected outright. Commercial greeting cards are photocopied and the copy delivered — the card itself never reaches the person it was sent to.
• Envelopes from attorneys are photocopied too, and the original envelope is not delivered.

Legal mail is opened only in the presence of the person it is addressed to, and it is not read, but only when it carries the special-mail marking the Bureau’s correspondence rules require: “Special Mail — Open only in the presence of the inmate.” Here, legal and certified mail is accepted Monday through Friday during the noon meal, and outgoing legal mail must be handed to mail room staff during open house and sealed in front of them; it cannot go in the unit box. Our guides to writing to someone in federal prison and attorney-client communication in the Bureau of Prisons cover what gets rejected and why the marking matters.

One more local rule: writing to someone in another prison is limited to immediate family and to co-defendants with a live criminal case, and the handbook adds that because common-law marriage is not recognized in California, a common-law partner is not immediate family for this purpose.

Never put money in a letter: cash or an instrument enclosed in correspondence is rejected and goes back to whoever sent it.

How do I send money to someone at FCI Victorville Medium II?

Money for someone at FCI Victorville Medium II goes through the Bureau’s national lockbox, Western Union or MoneyGram, not to Adelanto or Victorville, and every route needs the committed name and the eight-digit register number.

Route	Where it goes	What the handbook says
Postal money order, cashier’s check, government check or business check	Federal Bureau of Prisons Committed Name Eight-Digit Register Number Post Office Box 474701 Des Moines, Iowa 50947-0001	No personal checks, no cash. Funds sent to the institution are returned with the lockbox address enclosed
Western Union Quick Collect	Code city FBOP, DC	Fees are charged by the service, not the Bureau
MoneyGram Express Payment	Receive code 7932, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC	Same

Visitors may not hand over money: funds are not received locally from visitors, and a man inside may not touch currency in the visiting room at all. Our guide to sending money to a federal prisoner sets out what each route costs and how long it takes.

Two timing points. A man transferring in from another federal prison should have his funds available within 24 hours; one arriving from a state or county jail may wait three to four weeks and should ask unit staff to chase the money. Before sending a large sum, read the commissary section below.

What are the visiting hours at FCI Victorville Medium II?

Families can visit FCI Victorville Medium II on Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and all federal holidays, 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Monday is unusual and easy to miss: most federal prisons visit on weekends only, and this complex adds a third day. The source is complex supplement VIX 5267.09 of March 1, 2022, which rescinded the October 2015 version and applies identically at both mediums and the penitentiary; the Bureau’s national visiting rules sit behind it.

The cut-off matters more than the closing time. Social visits are not processed before 8:30 a.m. or after 2:00 p.m., so arriving at 2:15 on a Saturday means no visit at all, whatever the 3:00 p.m. figure suggests. One caution: the body of the supplement and its social-visiting handout say 8:30 a.m.; the legal-visiting handout attached to the same document says 8:00 a.m. The supplement does not say which controls. Call 760-530-5700 before you travel.

The 2022 supplement is the only visiting schedule the Bureau publishes for this institution; its facility listing gives no visiting days.

People in the Special Housing Unit here and at Medium I visit by non-contact video, on the same days but from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and ordinarily in two-hour blocks, unless they are on visiting restriction. At the penitentiary, by contrast, SHU visits happen in person in a non-contact room. Nowhere in the complex is a SHU visitor processed after 1:00 p.m. Contact legal visits can still be scheduled in advance for someone in the SHU here.

Who can visit, and how many

• Up to 20 people may be on the approved list, and a person inside may ask to change it at any Unit Team open house, as often as he likes; our guide to federal prison visitation covers the application.
• Four approved visitors at a time, exceedable by up to three children under ten who do not occupy a seat — a child who takes a chair counts as an adult. The 2021 handbook sets that age at two; the 2022 supplement is later.
• Anyone under 16 must be accompanied by a responsible adult, and visiting is ordinarily for people who knew the prisoner before he came in, though the Warden can make exceptions.
• The Unit Manager approves or denies each visitor and tells the prisoner, who has to tell the visitor; the prison does not call visitors.
• A minister of record, added through the Chaplain, does not count against the 20 and does not use up a social visit.
• A man convicted of a sex offense involving a minor has that annotated in the visiting program, is seated where staff can watch him, and may not enter the children’s play area at any time.

What visitors can wear and bring

The dress rule that catches visitors here is about color, not modesty. Forest green is the uniform at both mediums, so no green pants, shirts, jackets or coats — and nothing a prisoner can buy in the commissary either, which rules out sweatpants and plain white T-shirts. Beyond that: no tank tops, see-through fabric or visible cleavage; hems no shorter than two inches above mid-knee for anyone over ten; no skin-tight fabric, leggings or jeggings unless the lower body is covered; no holes in pants; closed-toe shoes only; no hats or head wraps except religious headwear; no hoods and no sunglasses in the room.

You may carry in a clear bag no larger than eight by twelve inches, up to $20 in coins for the vending machines, your photo ID, and essential medication — an inhaler or nitroglycerin, held by the officer, who will not hand it out. The 2021 handbook adds that insulin and syringes are barred but an insulin pump may come in. Everything else, handbags and all electronics included, stays in the car. A short list of infant items is allowed per child, and a mother who needs to breastfeed may use an attorney-client room; the prisoner does not go with her.

Inside the room: one embrace and kiss at the start and end and nothing after, seated facing each other. He may not approach the vending machines or the restrooms, handle money, or cover his hands or face.

Identification, screening and the visiting point system

Everyone needs a valid state or government photo ID — license, state card, military ID or a current passport. The supplement is explicit that consular identification cards and foreign identification other than a passport will not be accepted, which bites at a complex whose December 2023 audit counted 1,337 people with limited English proficiency. Visitors pass a walk-through metal detector, so avoid metal-heavy clothing; a breathalyzer, urinalysis or pat search needs the Warden’s approval. On the way out visitors are identified three times — at the visiting room desk, at the door, and again at the Control Center — while prisoners’ clothing and shoes go through a Scanmax scanner, and out-processing stops 30 minutes before visiting ends.

Visits here are also rationed by points. Under the 2021 handbook each man receives 40 points on the first day of every month. Two points come off for each hour or part hour visited on a weekend or federal holiday and one point per hour on a weekday, and unused points do not carry over — so a weekends-only pattern is about twenty hours a month, and the Monday costs half as much. Ask the unit team to confirm the current allocation before planning a trip around it.

Getting there

The complex sits on the old George Air Force Base in the High Desert, about 97 miles northeast of Los Angeles by the Inspector General’s reckoning, and the two Bureau documents give different routes in. The 2022 supplement, the newer, sends you off Interstate 15 at the “D” Street exit — left onto Highway 18 northbound, right southbound — then along Route 66/Highway 18 to Air Expressway Boulevard, left there, and left again at George Boulevard onto complex property. The 2021 handbook leaves Interstate 15 at Mojave Drive instead, then Village Drive to Air Expressway; both end at the same gate. Without a car, the supplement lists Greyhound, Amtrak and local taxi service.

How do phone calls and email work at FCI Victorville Medium II?

Calls from FCI Victorville Medium II go out, never in. Under the Bureau’s telephone regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, issued September 3, 2026, a person here gets 510 minutes a calendar month: 300 free for anyone eligible for First Step Act telephone incentives, and 210 more that anyone, eligible or not, may buy after using up the first 300. A single call should generally not exceed 15 minutes. The September 2021 handbook resets minutes on each man’s commissary revalidation date and requires 30 minutes between completed calls, now also the national minimum under PS 5264.09, which leaves any longer interval to the Warden.

Before the first call a person has to register a voice print; the approved list holds up to 30 numbers, and every personal call is recorded. Our guide to federal inmate phone calls covers the national allowance, the phone account and what a call costs.

Email runs on TRULINCS, reached from the outside through CorrLinks. It is text only and charged by the minute: when the DC inspectors were here it was 50 cents a minute to read or write, and a long-distance call to Washington cost 21 cents a minute.

Email with a lawyer is not privileged. Privileged writing has to go by marked special mail, and privileged calls have to be arranged through the unit team — or, while the Marshals Service population is here, through the dedicated legal mailbox described above. Our page on CorrLinks and TRULINCS sets out how a family gets on the list in the first place.

What can people buy at the FCI Victorville Medium II commissary?

The national monthly spending limit is $460: the Bureau’s Trust Fund/Deposit Fund Manual, Program Statement 4500.13, issued May 7, 2026, raised it from $360. The limit rises by $50 during the November and December holiday period, for no more than one validation period. Postage stamps, over-the-counter medications and a few other items are excluded from it.

The institution’s own documents give different figures. The commissary order form the Bureau posts for FCI Victorville Medium II, approved by the complex warden and both medium wardens, is dated May 15, 2023 and prints “SPENDING LIMIT $180” with no period stated — half the national ceiling then in force. The 2021 handbook for the complex gives $360 a month and $90 a week. Both predate the current program statement, which permits a warden to set local controls below the national ceiling. Before sending several hundred dollars, ask the unit team in writing what the monthly limit is here, and keep the answer.

The shopping rules are strict. Sales are final once you leave the window; nothing may be added or changed there; unclaimed purchases go back after three calls; and anything perishable stays behind when a man transfers. Someone on commissary restriction is held to $25 a month for hygiene and medication only. Special Purchase Orders — the route for unusual shoe sizes, religious medallions and hobby craft supplies — run one a month, with the quarterly ceiling raised from $300 to $600 by the 2026 program statement and a 30 percent markup on everything but religious articles.

The list is complex-wide, marks kosher and halal items, and runs from a $1.00 photo ticket and a $7.15 copy card up to a $131.30 tablet with a $1.95 mailer to ship it home. Purchases are collected by fingerprint, and the revalidation date is not the first of the month: take the fifth digit of the register number, multiply by three, add one. Our page on the federal prison commissary explains what a trust fund account actually pays for.

What programs are available at FCI Victorville Medium II?

FCI Victorville Medium II offers education, vocational certification and non-residential drug treatment, but not residential drug treatment, and the Bureau’s current programming guide no longer lists the BRAVE unit here. Both gaps change what a person should be asking his unit team for.

Drug treatment, and why there is no RDAP here

Three independent Bureau sources agree that the Residential Drug Abuse Program does not run here. The complex’s own handbook has psychology staff make an “assessment for and referral to the residential drug abuse program (RDAP) at another institution, when appropriate.” The RDAP locations list inside the Bureau’s August 2026 First Step Act Approved Programs Guide, updated June 4, 2026 and totaling 57 programs at 50 locations, names no Victorville institution — the Western Region entries are Herlong, Lompoc, Phoenix, Safford and Sheridan. And the guide’s programs-by-institution table leaves the residential drug treatment and dual-diagnosis rows unmarked here.

Completing RDAP can cut up to twelve months from a sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e) for people convicted of non-violent offenses, and a man who wants it here has to be moved to get it. Eligibility and the interview wait list follow the Bureau’s national RDAP rules; our page on RDAP and early release explains the timing.

What does run here is the 15-hour drug education class, the non-residential drug abuse program, Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Within 45 days of arrival the unit team assigns everyone a drug-education status, and a man coded as needing the class who declines it goes into “required-declined,” which drops him to the lowest performance pay grade and blocks community programs, including halfway house placement.

On the BRAVE unit — the Bureau Rehabilitation and Values Enhancement program for young men serving a first federal sentence — the records conflict. The September 2021 handbook for this complex says “The Bureau Rehabilitation and Values Enhancement (BRAVE) Program in FCI – II institution is a unit-based residential treatment program,” and the DC inspectors who toured the BRAVE treatment unit here in May 2014 called it a best practice, noting that Victorville was then one of only two federal prisons running it. The Bureau’s August 2026 guide names six institutions for BRAVE and this is not one of them: its program-detail entry lists Beckley, Greenville, El Reno, Williamsburg, Yazoo City Low II and Victorville Medium I, and its programs-by-institution table, read by column position, marks the same five without Yazoo City Low II. Neither half marks this institution. Ask the unit team which is current before anyone counts on it. Eligibility, where it runs, is now 40 or younger, a first Bureau commitment, at least 36 months left to serve and within the first 18 months of sentence — broader than the 32-and-under, 60-month rule the 2021 handbook printed.

Psychology Services screens everyone at intake, or within 14 to 30 days for anyone missed at receiving and discharge, and a written request ordinarily produces an appointment within five working days. There is a contract psychiatrist and tele-psychiatry at each institution; psychologists cannot prescribe, so medication questions go through sick call.

Education, college and vocational training

Education runs long hours by federal standards: 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, to 3:30 p.m. Friday and Sunday, closed Saturdays. Sunday is the one to plan for — a man who wants to study then has to be in the department and on the out-count by 7:45 a.m., because the list goes to the Control Center at 8:00 and cannot be added to afterward.

Anyone without a high school diploma or GED must complete 240 instructional hours of literacy programming or earn the credential, whichever comes first, and promotion beyond entry-level pay in any institution job depends on it. Limited-English speakers sit the CASAS test and attend ESL until they reach a reading score of 225 and a listening score of 215; completing either carries a $25 incentive. People sentenced under the District of Columbia code for offenses before August 5, 2000 can also earn DC educational good time at five days a month — a real sentence reduction that turns on paperwork the unit team sets up in advance.

College is through Coastline Community College, toward an associate degree in liberal arts or specialized business. The funding has changed: when the DC inspectors visited in 2014 the State of California was subsidizing tuition and two men here had gone on toward bachelor’s degrees; the 2021 handbook says the student pays tuition, books and fees. Ask the Supervisor of Education which applies now, before enrolling. The library runs inter-library loan through the San Bernardino County Library System and its thirty-plus branches, and typewriters are still stocked for legal work only.

The vocational catalog is broad, and one course runs nowhere else in the complex: the handbook records wheelchair and bicycle repair as “offered solely at the FCI II,” with every repaired chair and bicycle donated to community programs. The DC inspectors described the same work as a partnership with the charity Joni and Friends, shipping refurbished wheelchairs abroad. Alongside it: building trades to National Center for Construction Education and Research standards; horticulture with hydroponics; recycling tied to a complex-wide plant that employed 56 men when the inspectors counted; solar installation to a NABCEP certification; Microsoft Office; ServSafe and ManageFirst; culinary arts; and forklift certification to California OSHA requirements. Department of Labor apprenticeships cover plumbing, HVAC, electrical work and dental assistant. Our guides to prison education and vocational training set out how a certificate earned inside is treated outside.

There is no UNICOR factory at this institution. The complex runs a vehicular component operation rebuilding trailers, forklifts and military vehicles for the Defense Department, Homeland Security and the Forest Service — but the 2021 handbook puts the two factories at Medium I and in an annex at the penitentiary. A man who wants that work here is asking for a transfer within the complex, not a job down the corridor.

Faith-based and reentry programming

Religious Services here served 17 different faith groups when the DC inspectors counted, with a chapel, an outdoor worship area, a locker for each group’s items and services in English and Spanish. Seven chaplains cover the whole complex, supported by between 100 and 350 volunteers depending on the season. The Threshold program — values-based, non-residential, taught by chaplains and volunteers over six to nine months — is marked for this institution in the Bureau’s August 2026 guide; the residential Life Connections program is not. Religious medallions and approved headwear come through the Special Purchase Order route, capped at $100 a purchase.

Reentry work here has unusual outside partners. Ready-To-Work runs quarterly as a four-hour session taught by United States Probation officers, covering resumes, interviews and how to answer a question about a criminal record. Representatives of the Department of Veterans Affairs and of the Mexican Consulate come in for seminars — the consulate connection matters at a complex where more than a quarter of the population was recorded as limited English proficient. For people sentenced from the District of Columbia, the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency runs a quarterly Community Resource Day by videoconference for anyone within 90 days of release.

A note on First Step Act programming. The Bureau’s August 2026 guide records which programs are approved to be offered. Approval is not delivery, and whether a class is running this month is a question for the unit team — when the Inspector General reviewed the Release Preparation Program in 2016, visiting this complex among others, it found “the quality of RPP classes was inconsistent in content, length, and format.” Release preparation here was a ten-hour class when the DC inspectors measured it; the Bureau’s release preparation rules set the national program.

What is daily life like at FCI Victorville Medium II?

Daily life at FCI Victorville Medium II runs on six counts, one more than most federal prisons run, and on a mainline schedule that differs by half an hour from the institution next door. The complex’s September 2021 handbook sets out the day.

	Weekdays	Weekends and holidays
Lights on / lights out	5:30 a.m. / 10:00 p.m.
Counts	Midnight, 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.; stand-up counts at 4:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., plus 10:00 a.m. on weekends and holidays
Breakfast	6:00 a.m. until the last unit is called	7:00 a.m. until the last unit is called
Lunch	10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	After the 10:00 a.m. stand-up count
Dinner	Immediately after the 4:00 p.m. count clears
Beds made, cells inspection-ready	By 7:30 a.m.; 7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.	When the person gets up
Education and libraries	7:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. Monday–Thursday; to 3:30 p.m. Friday	Sunday to 3:30 p.m.; closed Saturday
Sick call sign-up	6:45 – 7:15 a.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday	Wednesdays are reserved for the Special Housing Unit

The unit rules are specific. No visiting between cells and none between units. Beds military-made, nothing hanging from the frame. No boxes, paper bags or cardboard in a cell, all of it contraband. No window coverings at any time. Three rolls of toilet paper per person. One eight-by-ten framed photograph and one book or religious item on top of the locker, and nothing else. Legal material has to fit in the locker unless the Unit Manager approves separate locked storage, and then only for live litigation.

One rule catches lawyers as often as clients: at this complex a person may not possess a copy of his own presentence report, statement of reasons, criminal docket or transcripts. Sending a client a PSR here creates a disciplinary problem, not a resource.

Laundry runs by register number — the last two digits of the first five decide Mondays and Wednesdays or Tuesdays and Thursdays, with no exchange on Fridays or during the first full week of a month. Recreation is unusually deep for a medium — fitness classes, art, and a music program taught in English and Spanish — and one part of it is particular to this side of the complex: ceramics is offered here and at the camp but at neither Medium I nor the penitentiary. Hobby craft runs on enrollment and a project authorization form, and a finished piece must be mailed out within 30 days to someone on the visiting list, and no completed project may be kept inside. Photographs with visitors need a $1.00 ticket bought in advance from the commissary; there is no other way to pay.

What do inspectors say about conditions at FCI Victorville Medium II?

Independent inspectors have visited FCI Victorville Medium II only once: the District of Columbia’s Corrections Information Council inspected it on May 1, 2014, and the Bureau ended that inspection early too. The DOJ Office of the Inspector General has not conducted an on-site inspection of this facility. The Prison Rape Elimination Act audit that covers it was an audit of the whole complex, not of this prison. Public information about conditions here therefore rests on a one-day visit in 2014 and on the institution’s own paperwork.

The 2014 inspection, and the one that was terminated

The Corrections Information Council is a congressionally mandated body that inspects prisons holding people sentenced under the District of Columbia code. Its inspectors came to Victorville for three days — the penitentiary on April 30, 2014, this institution on May 1, Medium I on May 2 — and published all three reports on January 7, 2016, twenty months later. Everything they describe is a 2014 picture.

They never got through the third day. The Medium I report records: “On May 2, 2014, the CIC was unable to complete its scheduled inspection of FCI Victorville Medium I because FCC Warden Richard Ives terminated the inspection prior to its completion.” The inspectors had toured from 9:30 to 11:30 that morning; at the closeout session the warden told them the inspection was over, and three scheduled interviews with DC residents were lost. The Council recorded that it had completed inspections of 13 federal prisons before coming to Victorville and that this “is the first time the CIC was forced to leave a facility prior to fully completing its inspection,” that it had met “a level of unprofessionalism and lack of transparency that was both surprising and disappointing,” and that it was “unable to issue a full report on the conditions of confinement at FCI Victorville Medium I.” The Bureau’s written answer called it “a miscommunication [that] resulted in the inspection being completed at noon rather than 5:00 p.m. on the final day.”

The day before, the same thing happened here on a smaller scale. Footnote 5 of this institution’s report records that the Council had asked for 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., that “[p]rior to 4:00 PM, however, the CIC was asked to leave the facility,” and that as a result “the CIC was unable to complete one inmate interview in the SHU.” The body adds that “it was apparent throughout the inspection that members of the executive staff at the complex level had a timeframe for the inspection that did not reflect the inspection request submitted by the CIC.”

The report is the only independent account of this prison. Its sample is small and self-selected: 13 people here were serving DC code sentences, 0.9 percent of the population; the Council interviewed 10 of them and received about 60 written concerns. By July 2015 only five DC residents remained, the Bureau having offered the others transfers closer to home.

• Crowding. 1,382 men against a rated capacity of 1,152 — 120 percent, with three men in some two-person cells. Medium I, the next day, was at 135 percent.
• The Special Housing Unit. Designed for 96, holding 162 on the day of the visit — 168.8 percent of capacity. Most were in administrative detention rather than under punishment, and most of those in protective custody. The average stay over the preceding year was 73 days.
• Violence. Bureau figures for April 2013 to March 2014 recorded 31 assaults on prisoners without a weapon and one with a weapon, 14 assaults on staff without a weapon, 18 uses of force, five institution lockdowns and 95 incident reports forwarded to Central Office. The Council concluded that this “indicates relatively high levels of violence for a medium security level institution.”
• Mental health. “The facility has one psychologist for over 1,300 inmates.” At the time 50 to 60 men were taking antipsychotic medication and 100 to 110 were on anti-anxiety or antidepressant medication. The Council said the department “must be immediately expanded.”
• Medical and dental. About 1,200 chronic care patients; complex health services had 15 vacancies against 76 authorized positions as of July 2015; this institution had one dentist and one hygienist, and staff said it took up to a year to get dentures.
• Grievances and appeals. Of 68 medical grievances filed here in the year to February 2014, six were granted; of 73 appeals reaching the Bureau’s Central Office in the four largest categories, none were.

The Bureau answered this report, in a section headed “FBOP Response” on page 19: “The Bureau reviewed all the inmate concerns and is working toward making improvements as appropriate… Safety and security measures are steadily improving. The Medical and Psychology departments at FCI II are actively recruiting staff to fill the current vacancies.”

One caution travels with any citation of that report: its table of disease indicators — HIV, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, suicide attempts — is sourced in the report itself to an American Correctional Association audit of March 2011 using 2010 statistics for the entire complex. Those numbers are not this institution’s and they are not from 2014.

The Council came back to Victorville in September 2021, but inspected the penitentiary only, publishing its report in July 2022. There has been no independent inspection of FCI Victorville Medium II since May 1, 2014.

What the Inspector General has and has not done here

The DOJ Office of the Inspector General has not conducted an on-site inspection of this facility. It has, once, made this complex the subject of its own audit, on dental care.

Report 17-20, published March 30, 2017, audited the Bureau’s contract with Spectrum Services Group for four dental assistants at FCC Victorville — one each at the penitentiary, Medium I, this institution and the camp. The auditors found that “for 25 of the 46 months from August 2012 through May 2016, or approximately 54 percent of the time, one of the four Dental Assistant positions specified in the contract was vacant,” and that from December 2012 through March 2014, when the complex “generally housed over 5,000 inmates,” it ran with four dental officers and, for an extended period, three assistants. The auditors wrote: “We concluded that these staffing shortages have had measurable consequences at the institution. As of May 2016, one out of every four inmates at FCC Victorville was on the national waiting list for routine dental care, totaling a backlog of nearly 1,000 inmates. Some FCC Victorville inmates have been on this Routine List awaiting routine dental care since 2008.”

The same audit found that comparing contractor sign-in logs against timesheets produced “numerous discrepancies and inaccuracies” amounting to “a serious physical access control issue that could affect the security of FCC Victorville facilities.”

Beyond that, the Inspector General’s staff have been on this campus as one stop among several on Bureau-wide reviews — inmate health care in 2008, the furlough program in 2010, release preparation in 2016, and colorectal cancer screening in 2025, whose report carries a case study of a man at FCC Victorville sent to three separate pre-colonoscopy evaluations after a positive result. None is an inspection of this prison. Where the Inspector General has published Victorville numbers — 120 incidents of prisoners sexually harassing staff in a 2023 review, 480 uses of restraints and nine deaths in later ones — the figures belong to the complex or to the penitentiary, not to this institution.

The 2023 PREA audit of the complex

FCC Victorville was audited under the Prison Rape Elimination Act on December 19–21, 2023, by Valerie Wolfe Mahfood, an independent auditor subcontracted by PREA Auditors of America, with the final report dated February 6, 2024. It passed: six standards exceeded, 35 met, none unmet, and ten more met at agency level. The auditor recorded access to every area, interviewed 25 randomly selected and 26 targeted prisoners, toured the Special Housing Unit and contacted Just Detention International and San Bernardino Sexual Assault Services.

In the twelve months before the audit the complex logged 24 allegations of sexual abuse: 17 prisoner-on-prisoner and seven staff-on-prisoner. All seven criminal investigations into staff conduct were still open, none referred for prosecution. Of the administrative outcomes on prisoner-on-prisoner allegations, 13 were unsubstantiated and one substantiated. Sexual harassment allegations for the whole complex that year: zero, although the auditor’s narrative describes “twenty-five (25) sexual abuse or sexual harassment allegations” received, against a table that totals 24.

The audit is also the fullest recent description of the campus, and every number in it is complex-wide: designed capacity 4,864; 4,389 people on the first day of the on-site; 41 housing units; 877 staff; 21 contractors and 150 volunteers, though only one volunteer was present during the audit. On that day 1,337 people across the complex had limited English proficiency, 1,089 had a physical disability, 35 identified as transgender or intersex, and 198 disclosed prior sexual victimization at risk screening. Do not divide any of it by three to get this institution’s share; the three prisons are different sizes and hold different populations.

Staffing, and what the Bureau’s own staff said

One dataset reports this institution by name rather than folding it into the complex: the Inspector General’s pandemic survey of Bureau staff, published on September 28, 2021, with interactive results broken out by institution. It gives percentages and no respondent count.

What staff answering reported	Medium II (this institution)	Medium I	USP Victorville
Experienced increased stress or anxiety at work	82.3%	73.7%	80.9%
Required to perform tasks outside normal duties	74.2%	73.7%	59.6%
Took leave to manage increased demands at home	43.5%	23.7%	17.0%
Contracted COVID-19 and believed it came from work	40.3%	31.6%	38.3%
Considered leaving the Bureau of Prisons	37.1%	34.2%	38.3%
Became more confident in their work skills	12.9%	34.2%	19.1%

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Report 21-126, interactive survey results.

Staff here reported more stress, more denied leave and less confidence in their own work than staff at either neighbor. That is a 2021 snapshot of a workforce, not a measure of conditions today. Staffing shortfalls show in the findings above: a dental waiting list reaching back to 2008, and one psychologist for more than 1,300 men when the Council visited.

FCI Victorville Medium II in the news

Recent news about FCI Victorville Medium II centers on a February 2025 death in custody and Sam Bankman-Fried’s brief stay in Victorville; older items concern a 2023 murder verdict for a 2013 killing, deaths reported in 2021 and 2022, the 2016 attack on the warden and staff prosecutions at the complex.

• April 2025 — Fortune reported that the Bureau had moved Sam Bankman-Fried to “a medium-security prison in Victorville” before sending him on to a low-security prison in Los Angeles at the end of the same week. The reporting did not say which of the two mediums, and the Bureau’s own records now place him at FCI Lompoc II.
• February 2025 — death in custody. Thomas O’Hara II, 58, was found unresponsive in his cell at about 7:30 a.m. on February 19 and pronounced dead; the FBI was notified, Victor Valley News Group reported. He had been here since October 16, 2024, serving 330 months imposed in the District of Colorado for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
• January 2023 — a murder conviction nine years after the killing. A federal jury found three men guilty of second-degree murder in what the Justice Department described as “the beating death of another inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution II in Victorville.” The victim, a 38-year-old identified in court papers as “J.S.”, was escorted to the recreation yard on October 1, 2013 and attacked there, dying of blunt force trauma to the head. The significant-incident figures the Bureau gave the DC inspectors for April 2013 through March 2014 record no inmate homicides here, although October 1, 2013 falls inside that window. How the death was classified at the time is not on the public record; among the inmate concerns the same inspectors published is the line “Inmate was stomped to death.”
• January 2021 and March 2022 — the Bureau posted two news releases reporting the deaths of people held at this institution, which the releases call FCI Victorville II (Medium) and FCI Victorville Medium II; the Bureau’s releases are listed on its press release page.
• August 2018 — an attack on the warden. Fazliddin Kurbanov, already serving 25 years for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, was sentenced to a further 20 years, consecutive, for attempted murder of a federal officer. He had admitted, in the Justice Department’s words, “making and using a prison-made knife to attack the warden at the Federal Correctional Institute-II in Victorville on May 31, 2016, and attempting to slit his throat.” The warden was seriously injured, recovered, and moved to another Bureau facility.
• 2017 to 2024 — staff prosecutions at the complex. The Inspector General’s public record for FCC Victorville includes an officer who pleaded guilty in 2017 to kicking a restrained female prisoner in the head, one sentenced in 2019 to two years for sexually abusing female prisoners, one sentenced in 2021 for taking bribes to smuggle contraband, and a senior officer specialist arrested in August 2024 on two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law. The Inspector General files each under the complex, though the U.S. Attorney’s releases place the first “at the women’s prison camp in Victorville.”

Frequently asked questions about FCI Victorville Medium II

Problems at FCI Victorville Medium II: where we can help

The problems that recur here are visible in this institution’s own record: a Special Housing Unit at 168.8 percent of capacity holding mostly men in protective custody; one psychologist for 1,300 people; a dental waiting list the Inspector General traced back to 2008; six of 68 medical grievances granted at the institution and none at all on appeal; and a programming record in which the two things people transfer for, RDAP and BRAVE, are not or may no longer be delivered here. These are the issues a family is most likely to face:

• Medical and dental care that is not happening. A written request to staff, then the administrative remedy process, which has a clock on every rung: 20 days to file at the institution, 20 to the region, 30 to the Central Office. See medical care in federal prison and, where neglect has caused injury, Federal Tort Claims Act claims.
• Long stays in the Special Housing Unit. When the SHU here was inspected the average stay was 73 days and most of the men in it had asked to be there. Protective custody that outlasts its justification, and separation requests that go unanswered, are both reviewable under the Bureau’s special housing unit rules.
• Transfer out for a program this prison does not run — residential drug treatment above all, where the § 3621(e) year turns on being interviewed early enough and at the right institution; see RDAP and early release.
• Designation to a medium at all, where a Public Safety Factor or a Management Variable is doing the work rather than the point score, and transfer requests that go unanswered.
• First Step Act time credits — whether they are earned, calculated and applied, and whether a programming assignment made in the first 45 days is quietly blocking community placement; see our time-credit review.
• Disciplinary proceedings under the Bureau’s discipline program that threaten good conduct time, including incident reports written for missing a Marshals Service video legal visit.
• Halfway house and home confinement placement, errors in the Bureau’s sentence computation (see our sentence computation review), and compassionate release under the Bureau’s reduction-in-sentence rules; our early-release practice covers each.
• Legal access for a pretrial detainee held here — confidential calls, discovery review and attorney visits all run through one institution mailbox, and an unanswered request is a record worth building.
• 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 Victorville Medium II, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The Bureau’s page for the institution, with its addresses, phone numbers and posted documents.
• FCC Victorville Commissary Shopping List, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex Victorville, 2023.
• Camp Victorville Commissary Shopping List, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex Victorville, 2023.
• Visiting Regulations, Complex Supplement VIX 5267.09, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex Victorville, 2022. Replaced the October 2015 supplement.
• FCC Victorville Inmate Handbook, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex Victorville, 2021.
• Trust Fund/Deposit Fund Manual, Program Statement 4500.13, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Sets the commissary spending limit and the Special Purchase Order ceiling.
• Inmate Telephone Regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Replaced Program Statement 5264.08 (2008).
• First Step Act Approved Programs Guide, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Reentry Services Division, 2026. Includes the list of residential drug program locations.
• Send Money, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The Bureau’s instructions for the lockbox, Western Union and MoneyGram.
• Press Releases, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2022. Includes the January 2021 and March 2022 releases reporting deaths at this institution.

Audits and inspections

• Audit of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Oversight of the Use of Restraints (Report 25-070), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2025.
• Evaluation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Colorectal Cancer Screening Practices for Inmates and Its Clinical Follow-up on Screenings (Report 25-057), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2025.
• Evaluation of Issues Surrounding Inmate Deaths in Federal Bureau of Prisons Institutions (Report 24-041), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2024.
• PREA Facility Audit Report: Final, FCC Victorville, PREA Auditors of America, 2024. On-site audit of December 19–21, 2023, by Valerie Wolfe Mahfood, an independent auditor subcontracted by PREA Auditors of America.
• Evaluation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Efforts to Address Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Committed by Inmates Toward Staff (Report 23-034), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2023.
• USP Victorville Inspection Report, District of Columbia Corrections Information Council, 2022. Covers a September 2021 visit to the penitentiary.
• Staff Perceptions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Management of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Follow-Up Survey of BOP Staff (Report 21-126), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2021.
• Report 21-126: results by institution, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2021.
• Audit of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Contract No. DJBP0616BPA12004 Awarded to Spectrum Services, Inc., Victorville, California (Report 17-20), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2017.
• Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Release Preparation Program (Report 16-07), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2016.
• FCI Victorville Medium II Inspection Report, District of Columbia Corrections Information Council, 2016. Covers the May 1, 2014 inspection.
• FCI Victorville Medium I Inspection Report, District of Columbia Corrections Information Council, 2016. Covers the May 2014 inspection that the complex warden ended early.
• Audit of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Furlough Program (Report 10-44), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2010.
• The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Efforts to Manage Inmate Health Care (Report 08-08), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2008.

Court records

• BOP Correctional Officer Indicted and Arrested for Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2024. Erik Salgado’s indictment.
• Three Prison Inmates Found Guilty of Murder for Beating Fellow Prisoner to Death at Victorville Federal Prison, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, 2023. The verdict against Aurelio Patino, Christopher Ruiz and Jose Villegas.
• Ex-Federal Correctional Officer Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison for Taking Over $15,000 in Bribes and Smuggling Contraband for Inmates, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, 2021. Paul James Hayes II’s sentence; published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General.
• Correctional Officer at Federal Prison Facility in Victorville Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Sexually Abusing Female Inmates, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, 2019. Apolonio Gamez’s sentence.
• Idaho Man in Custody on Terrorism Charges Sentenced to an Additional 20 Years for Attacking Federal Prison Warden, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, 2018. Fazliddin Kurbanov’s sentence.
• Federal Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Offense for Kicking Inmate in Head and Lying about Incident, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, 2017. Cynthia Flores’s guilty plea.
• Federal Correctional Officer Arrested on Charges of Assaulting Inmate, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, 2016. Cynthia Flores’s arrest for the June 2013 assault at the women’s camp.

News and other sources

• Sam Bankman-Fried Sent to ‘Notoriously Hard’ Prison in California, Then Low-Security Facility in LA, Fortune, 2025.
• Inmate Serving 330-Month Sentence for Drug Distribution Dies at FCI Victorville Medium II, Victor Valley News Group, 2025.
• 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e), Imprisonment of a convicted person, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).

Sources reviewed September 2026.

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