FCI Pollock: Visiting, Inmates, Commissary

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

FCI Pollock at a glance

FCI Pollock is a medium-security federal prison for men in Pollock, Louisiana, with an adjacent minimum-security satellite camp. It is the newer of the two federal prisons at 1000 Airbase Road; USP Pollock, a high-security penitentiary, stands about a quarter of a mile away. As of September 2026 it held 1,710 people: 1,450 at the main institution and 260 at the camp.

Official name	Federal Correctional Institution, Pollock
BOP code	POM · complex POX
Security level	Medium; men
Population	1,710 (as of September 2026) · 1,450 at the FCI, 260 at the camp
Visiting	Saturday, Sunday, and approved federal holidays, 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Inmate mail	FCI: Inmate Name & Register Number · FCI Pollock · Federal Correctional Institution · P.O. Box 4050 · Pollock, LA 71467 Camp: Inmate Name & Register Number · FCI Pollock · Federal Correctional Institution · Satellite Camp · P.O. Box 2099 · Pollock, LA 71467
Send money	Lockbox · Western Union (code city FBOP, DC) · MoneyGram (receive code 7932)
Phone	318-765-4400 · Fax 318-765-4476
Street address	1000 Airbase Road, Pollock, LA 71467 · Grant Parish
Judicial district	Western District of Louisiana, Alexandria Division
BOP region	South Central
Designated capacity	1,152 at the FCI · 256 at the camp
Housing	Three 512-bed housing units of four pods each · no single-cell units
Special Housing Unit	Yes · 96 segregation cells
RDAP	No · not at the FCI, the penitentiary, or the camp
UNICOR	Yes · textile products for the military, at the FCI only
Camp	Minimum-security satellite camp for men, adjacent to the FCI · see which institution it belongs to

It was built in 2007 and activated in April 2009, sits in Grant Parish about ten miles north of Alexandria, and falls under the Bureau’s South Central Region; our page on federal prisons in Louisiana covers the state’s other institutions. Confusing FCI Pollock with the penitentiary next door is the most common and most costly mistake made about this place.

There are two federal prisons at Pollock, and one camp

Two federal prisons, FCI Pollock and USP Pollock, and a minimum-security camp share one site at Pollock. Settle which one you need before you send or book anything. The Bureau’s own handbook counts the camp as a third institution — “FCC Pollock is a Federal Correctional Complex comprised of three (3) institutions, the United States Penitentiary (USP), the Federal Prison Camp (FPC), and the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI)” — but only two of the three have a facility code of their own, and the camp’s population is reported under the FCI’s.

They share a street address and one executive-assistant email box. They do not share a mailing box, a phone number, a security level, or a record. The table sets out what differs.

	FCI Pollock (this page)	USP Pollock	The camp
BOP code	POM	POL	Counted under POM
Security level	Medium	High	Minimum
Population, as of September 2026	1,450	926	260
Phone	318-765-4400	318-561-5300	318-561-5300
Inmate mail	P.O. Box 4050	P.O. Box 2099	P.O. Box 2099
Opened	Activated April 2009	Activated January 2001	Under the USP since the USP opened

The dangerous confusion is in the inmate locator, which prints “Pollock” for both and adds only the type: “Pollock FCI” is this institution, “Pollock USP” the penitentiary.

The camp is the harder question, and the Bureau does not answer it consistently. Its roster marks the camp as the FCI’s, and as of September 2026 its population report counts the camp’s 260 residents under POM. But the Bureau’s own page for USP Pollock describes “a high security U.S. penitentiary with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp” and publishes a camp mailing address; the January 2023 handbook says the camp “is under the authority of the USP”; and the camp’s post office box is the penitentiary’s box, not the FCI’s. All four records are current.

For a family the practical answer is simpler than the org chart: the box number routes the mail. Camp mail goes to P.O. Box 2099 marked “Satellite Camp,” whichever institution name the Bureau prints above it.

Richard Lee McNair’s April 2006 escape, inside a mail cart, was from the penitentiary, not from FCI Pollock. FCI Pollock did not exist in 2006: construction finished in March 2007 and it was activated in April 2009.

What is the security level at FCI Pollock?

FCI Pollock’s main institution is medium security; the satellite camp beside it is minimum security. They share a commissary list, a handbook, and a set of chaplains, and are different places to serve a sentence.

The FCI is built as three housing units of 512 beds each, every unit divided into four pods. No one at Pollock is housed alone: the 2026 PREA audit counted 28 housing units across the complex and recorded no single-cell housing units at all — 26 multiple-occupancy cell units and two open dormitories. Every cell at the FCI and the penitentiary has a duress button, which the handbook describes as looking “somewhat like a doorbell”; pressing it without an emergency is a Code 319.

The FCI has 96 segregation cells for Special Housing Unit placements; the penitentiary has 70. The Bureau’s SHU rules govern both.

Whether someone lands at the FCI, the penitentiary, or the camp is decided before they arrive, under the Bureau’s security designation rules, by a security point score and by whether any Public Safety Factor applies. A Public Safety Factor overrides the point total: it keeps a person out of a camp no matter how low they score, and can hold someone at a medium when their points say low. A Management Variable does the opposite. All three are arguable, in writing, with documents — and that work nearly always has to be done before the designation is made rather than after. See federal prison designation and how to prepare for prison.

The 2026 PREA audit gives FCI Pollock a designated capacity of 1,152; as of September 2026 the Bureau’s population report puts 1,450 men in it. That is 126 percent. The camp is at 102 percent and the penitentiary at 104. Within this complex the medium is the crowded part.

Three capacity figures are in circulation: the handbook says the FCI was built “with a capacity to house 1,884 inmates”; the DC Corrections Information Council put it at 1,400 after a 2017 visit; the 2026 PREA audit gives a designated capacity of 1,152. Designed and designated capacity are not the same thing, and the Bureau has never explained the gap. The figure the auditors use now is 1,152.

Who are the notable inmates at FCI Pollock?

FCI Pollock’s best-known former prisoners are Enrique Tarrio, the former national chairman of the Proud Boys, released in January 2025, and Gene Gotti of the Gambino crime family, released in September 2018.

Name	Status at FCI Pollock	Case
Enrique Tarrio	Former — released January 21, 2025. Bureau records give the institution as FCI Pollock, register 98721-004	Former national chairman of the Proud Boys, convicted of seditious conspiracy and related offenses arising from the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in United States v. Nordean, No. 1:21-cr-00175 (D.D.C.), and sentenced to 22 years. He received clemency on January 20, 2025
Gene Gotti	Former — released September 14, 2018. Bureau records give the institution as FCI Pollock, register 04193-016	Gambino crime family figure, convicted in the Eastern District of New York in 1989 of running a heroin distribution operation and sentenced to 50 years

Richard Scutari, security chief of the white-supremacist group The Order, is often listed here, but no record places him at FCI Pollock: Bureau records show him released on January 21, 2025, from the Orlando Residential Reentry Management office — a community-corrections office, not a prison — under register 34840-080.

Gene Gotti was not held at FCI Pollock from 1989, as some listings say: this institution was activated in April 2009. The Bureau’s records show that FCI Pollock is where his sentence ended, on September 14, 2018.

How do I find someone at FCI Pollock?

Use the Bureau’s free public Inmate Locator. Search by the eight-digit register number if you have it — the number is the reliable key, because the locator matches the committed name on the judgment. It 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.

Read the result carefully. The locator shows a short name and a facility type, and at Pollock that name covers two prisons. “Pollock FCI” is this institution; “Pollock USP” is the penitentiary next door. If you are told “he’s at Pollock” and nothing else, you do not yet know which prison, which visiting room, or which post office box.

If the locator shows nothing, the usual reasons are state rather than federal custody, pretrial detention under the U.S. Marshals Service, or a committed name spelled differently from the one you use. Our guide to how federal register numbers work explains how the number is assigned.

How do I write to someone at FCI Pollock?

Write to someone at FCI Pollock at P.O. Box 4050, Pollock, LA 71467, or at P.O. Box 2099 for the satellite camp; the FCI and the camp use different post office boxes. Put the committed name and register number on the first line: mail without a register number is returned, and the mail room will not recognize a nickname or a religious name.

For someone at the FCI	For someone at the satellite camp
Inmate Name & Register Number FCI Pollock Federal Correctional Institution P.O. Box 4050 Pollock, LA 71467	Inmate Name & Register Number FCI Pollock Federal Correctional Institution Satellite Camp P.O. Box 2099 Pollock, LA 71467

Those are the blocks the Bureau publishes on its own page for this institution. The handbook prints the camp’s address differently again — “FCC POLLOCK, Satellite camp, P.O. Box 2099” — and asks for the housing unit in parentheses after the box. All of them arrive. What matters is the box number and the register number.

Use the plain ZIP code 71467. The handbook prints the ZIP+4 as 71467-4050 on all three of its address blocks, which can only be right for Box 4050, and the Bureau’s own address record carries no ZIP+4.

The mail room runs Monday to Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and the handbook says: “There is no mail service at this institution on weekends and holidays.” General correspondence reaches the units after the 4:15 p.m. count; legal and special mail is delivered daily by mail room staff.

General correspondence is opened, inspected, and may be read. Legal mail is opened unread in the recipient’s presence only if the sender is clearly identified as an attorney and the front is marked “Special Mail — Open only in the presence of the inmate”; otherwise it is opened and read as ordinary mail, and the Bureau puts the burden on the incarcerated person to tell their lawyer to mark it. See the Bureau’s correspondence rules, attorney–client communication in the Bureau of Prisons, and writing to someone in federal prison.

One rule trips up families: what you may send depends on which prison the person is in. At the FCI and the penitentiary, softcover books, magazines, and clippings may come only from a publisher, book club, or bookstore; at the camp, softcover publications other than newspapers may come from any source. Hardcovers are publisher-only everywhere. Magazines may be kept 90 days, newspapers seven, and no more than five magazines may accumulate in a locker.

Never put money in a letter. Funds enclosed in correspondence are rejected and returned to the sender.

How do I send money to someone at FCI Pollock?

Send money to someone at FCI Pollock through the Bureau’s national lockbox in Iowa, Western Union, or MoneyGram, never to the prison’s address. All three need the committed name and eight-digit register number on the instrument itself.

Route	Where it goes	How fast it posts
Postal money order (or cashier’s check)	Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate’s Name Inmate’s Register Number P.O. Box 474701 Des Moines, Iowa 50947-0001	U.S. postal money orders and government checks post without a hold. All non-government checks and non-postal money orders are held 15 days, foreign instruments in U.S. dollars 45 days; personal checks are refused
Western Union Quick Collect	City code FBOP, state code DC	Two to four hours for funds sent between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Eastern; otherwise by 7:00 a.m. Eastern the next day
MoneyGram	Receive code 7932, company name Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC	Same as Western Union

A caution on that last row: the Pollock handbook lists only the lockbox and Western Union and does not mention MoneyGram. MoneyGram is a national route under the current Trust Fund manual and it works; the local document is out of date. If a MoneyGram transfer does not appear, the other two are the routes this institution’s own staff document.

No cash and no personal checks. Withdrawals run on form BP-199 through TRULINCS, and only an Associate Warden may approve a charitable contribution or a withdrawal over $500. Our guide to sending money to a federal prisoner compares every route and its cost.

Two things before you send a large amount. There is a ceiling on what it can buy — $460 a month, below — so the rest sits in the account. And if the person is in “IFRP refuse” status for declining payments under the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program, this complex caps their commissary spending at $25 a month, bars them from UNICOR and from performance pay above maintenance level, and denies them a lower bunk without a medical pass. Money sent to someone in that status buys very little.

What are the visiting hours at FCI Pollock?

Visiting at FCI Pollock runs 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays, and approved federal holidays, at the FCI, the penitentiary, and the camp alike, and the last visitor is processed into the room at 2:00 p.m. Arrive at 2:15 on a Saturday and you will not get in, even though the room stays open another 45 minutes.

That schedule comes from the complex’s Admission & Orientation handbook, revised January 2023. The Bureau publishes no visiting supplement for FCI Pollock, and its facility page links only the handbook, the commissary list, and the PREA audit. Call 318-765-4400 before you travel.

Who can visit, and how many

• No more than five visitors at one time — lower than at many institutions.
• Immediate family means mother, father, stepparents, foster parents, brothers and sisters, spouse, and children.
• The incarcerated person mails a Visitor Information Form out; the visitor completes it and mails it back to Unit Team, which runs an NCIC check. Untruthful information on the form means denial.
• Reasons a visitor is refused a place on the list: an incomplete or inaccurate application; refusing to sign the background-check authorization; false information; a conviction or period of incarceration in the past five years; being on probation, parole, or supervision without the supervising officer’s approval; no established relationship with the person before their incarceration; a previous denial and re-application inside a year.
• Reasons a visitor is turned away at the lobby: improper dress; not being on the approved list; not clearing the metal detector; failing the ION scan; refusing a search; no valid state or federal government identification; inappropriate behavior.
• When the room is crowded the Operations Lieutenant asks for volunteers to end visits early, approaching visitors who traveled the shortest distance first. If that is not enough the institution moves to “first in, first out,” so the earliest arrival leaves first.
• Special visits outside regular hours need the Warden’s approval. Religious Services supervises clergy visits.

For attorneys: no prior approval is needed on a regular visiting day if the attorney of record is on the visiting list, though the handbook asks for an advance appointment. Attorney visits are visually monitored. A reasonable quantity of legal material may be brought in with prior approval and passed through staff, subject to search.

What visitors can wear and bring

Prohibited: hats; open-toe sandals; low-cut shirts and blouses; halter tops; transparent or sheer clothing; overalls; sleeveless tops and dresses; shorts; miniskirts; culottes; Capri pants; spandex. Dresses may be no shorter than the top of the knee and may not have a slit above it. Nothing may reveal the midsection or carry a derogatory, sexually suggestive, or gang-related logo. All visitors must wear undergarments, and female visitors must wear a bra. No bare feet, babies excepted.

Nothing may resemble what the people inside wear — at Pollock, khaki and gray sweats — judged on the day by the Operations Lieutenant or Institution Duty Officer. Children under twelve may be allowed shorts, at the same discretion.

You may bring $20.00 in coins only for the vending machines. Bring quarters; a $20 note will not help you. For an infant: two diapers, one baby blanket, two containers of baby food, and two clear full baby bottles, in a clear container. Nothing may be handed over or left behind, and anything bought from the machines has to be eaten before the visit ends.

The person you are visiting may bring four things into the room: a wedding band, religious headwear, a religious medallion, and prescription eyeglasses. Once seated they may not move around, and seating may be assigned.

Identification and screening

Bring valid state or federal government photo identification. A visitor who cannot clear the walk-through metal detector is not admitted; the hand-held wand is used only to locate metal, and only where the visitor has current, valid medical documentation for an implant.

Randomly selected visitors also go through the ION drug scanner. The handbook cites Program Statement 5522.02 for it, which the Bureau no longer posts; visitor searches now run under Program Statement 5510.16 (2026). Failing that scan and being unable to complete the alternative processing is a listed reason to be turned away at the lobby. If it happens, ask what the processing options are rather than leaving. See federal prison visitation, the Bureau’s visiting regulations, and searches, shakedowns, and contraband.

Getting there

The complex is on Airbase Road, off U.S. Highway 165, about three miles west of the town of Pollock and roughly ten miles north of Alexandria. From the south, go north on Highway 165; after the town of Ball, watch for the signs for FCC Pollock and the airport, turn left on Airbase Road, and go about two miles to the front entrance. From the north, go south on Highway 165; after the town of Pollock, watch for the same signs, turn right, and go about two miles.

Pollock has no public transportation.

How do phone calls and email work at FCI Pollock?

Phone calls at FCI Pollock are placed by the person inside, to numbers on an approved list of up to 30; you cannot call in, and email runs through TRULINCS and CorrLinks. Across the Bureau people get 510 minutes a calendar month under the Bureau’s telephone regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, issued September 3, 2026. Anyone eligible for First Step Act telephone incentives gets 300 of them free, and anyone who uses up those 300 minutes, eligible or not, may buy the other 210. A single call should generally not exceed 15 minutes. The extra 100 minutes in November and December belonged to the 2008 policy and did not survive its rescission.

The handbook applies the national 30-minute gap locally: after a completed call the account is closed for 30 minutes, and consecutive calls are not permitted. Phones in the FCI and penitentiary units run Monday to Friday 6:00 to 7:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and from the moment the 4:10 p.m. count clears until 9:30 p.m.; Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays 6:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. One phone per pod stays on 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for people on a day off or an evening detail. Every phone goes dead 30 minutes before each official count, and there are five or six counts a day.

On arrival each person records a voiceprint on the TRUFONE system and must match it to place a call; the handbook warns the recording “will only be reset in rare and unusual circumstances.” Every call except a properly arranged legal call is recorded. See federal inmate phone calls.

An unmonitored attorney call is possible but narrow. The request goes by cop-out to Unit Team and is approved by the Unit Manager, and the handbook says such calls “will only be approved if a documented and compelling legal need exists such as an imminent court deadline.” The request must be in 24 hours ahead and the person inside pays. Counsel who need privileged telephone contact should ask in writing, early, with the deadline named.

Email runs on TRULINCS, which families reach through CorrLinks. At Pollock it costs five cents a minute, bought in blocks of 40, 100, 200, or 600 minutes — 600 for $30.00. Sessions are capped at 15 minutes with a 35-minute lockout before the next. Up to 100 contacts. Messages are text only, no attachments, 13,000 characters, held at least two hours each way, and purged after 20 days. Printing is 15 cents a page at the Education or Recreation station. People in the Special Housing Unit have no access to public messaging.

Because of the 20-day purge, anything worth keeping has to be printed or copied out before it disappears. Every session is monitored, and the handbook requires consent to that monitoring each time the system is used. Email with a lawyer is not privileged; privileged written communication goes by marked special mail. Our page on CorrLinks and TRULINCS explains the system and its costs.

What can people buy at the FCI Pollock commissary?

People at FCI Pollock can spend up to $460 a month at the commissary, the national ceiling under the Bureau’s trust fund rules. Program Statement 4500.13, issued May 7, 2026, records in its summary of changes that it “Increases spending limit from $360 to $460 per month.” The limit rises by $50 during the November and December holiday period, for no more than one validation period.

FCC Pollock’s own 2024 order form still prints the old figure: “Commissary spending limit is $180.00 weekly (not to exceed $360.00 monthly validation.)” The January 2023 handbook prints an older one still — $320.00 a month, $160.00 a week. Both figures are superseded.

What has not been superseded is the weekly pacing: the local form sets a weekly sub-limit inside a monthly validation, and no current Pollock document restates it against the $460 ceiling. Treat $460 as the month’s total and expect it to be metered across the weeks.

The list of what does not count against the limit has grown. The current exclusions are postage stamps; nicotine-replacement patches and lozenges; over-the-counter medications, medical products, and vitamin or mineral supplements; kosher and halal shelf-stable entrees for people in IFRP-refuse status; copy cards and copy paper; footwear including sneakers and safety shoes; mattresses; and a secured media device. Pollock’s own 2024 form exempts only stamps, copy cards, and over-the-counter medications.

The order slip has to be stamped and deposited the day before the shopping day — at the FCI, in the machine outside the commissary building. Nothing can be added once it is turned in, there are no substitutions for out-of-stock items, and once you leave the window all sales are final. Stamps are capped at one book of 20 a week and 60 in possession. Tennis shoes can be bought once, then not again for three months.

Category caps on the 2024 form: 24 soups and rice; 48 meat and fish; 16 crackers; five bags of chips; two ice creams; eight hair-care items; six over-the-counter medications; two twelve-packs of soft drinks. Kosher and halal items are labeled K and H. Religious items need the Chaplain’s approval and include a white kufi at $5.49, a Rasta crown at $10.95, prayer oil at $4.55, and a red bandana with a dark center at $2.95.

A Score 7c tablet is $123.50 and its cover another $17.45. Adidas shoes are $74.95 and Nike $64.95, and a high-dollar item can only be bought once every three months. And a typewriter ribbon is still stocked at $27.25, with lift-off tape at $12.70. Our page on the federal prison commissary covers the national rules and what the money buys.

What programs are available at FCI Pollock?

FCI Pollock offers drug education and non-residential drug treatment but no RDAP, along with GED and ESL classes, Sewing and Carpentry vocational training, apprenticeships, a UNICOR textile factory, religious services, and the Release Preparation Program.

Drug treatment, and why there is no RDAP here

There is no Residential Drug Abuse Program at FCI Pollock, at the penitentiary, or at the camp.

Three Bureau documents say so. The complex handbook: “The RDAP is available in many Bureau institutions, however, RDAP is not available at FCC Pollock.” The Bureau’s written response to the DC Corrections Information Council in February 2023: “FCC Pollock does not have a Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP).” And the Bureau’s RDAP location list inside its First Step Act Approved Programs Guide, updated June 2026 and recording 57 programs at 50 locations, names no facility at Pollock — nor anywhere in Louisiana.

Without RDAP on site, the sentence reduction of up to a year that 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e) allows people convicted of non-violent offenses who complete the program requires a transfer, started early. The Bureau’s own account of the route, given to the Council, is that the person submits a written request, is screened against the Bureau’s drug treatment rules, Program Statement 5330.11, and if eligible the Drug Abuse Program Coordinator notifies the Unit Team to initiate a transfer to an institution that runs the program and matches their custody and security needs. The handbook adds that interviews ordinarily happen 24 to 42 months before release — which is why a designation request made at sentencing is worth more than a transfer request made three years in.

Pollock does offer the Drug Abuse Education course and the Non-Residential Drug Abuse Treatment program, a twelve-week cognitive-behavioral group run by Psychology Services. Drug Abuse Education is not optional for everyone: failing to take it when required costs performance pay above maintenance level, bonus and vacation pay, and any Federal Prison Industries assignment. The Challenge Program, a twelve-month residential unit paying $60 an incentive phase to a total of $180, runs at USP Pollock only.

Education and vocational training

GED and English-as-a-second-language classes, with the Bureau’s 240 mandatory instructional hours; Adult Continuing Education on a rotating schedule; a parenting program; and post-secondary correspondence courses, which the Post-Secondary Education Coordinator must approve and which staff open and review before handing over. Completing the GED, ESL, or a vocational course may earn a $50 First Step Act incentive award.

Vocational training is short and split by institution: Culinary Arts; Recycling at the penitentiary and camp; Automotive at the camp; and, at the FCI, Sewing and Carpentry. Apprenticeship training is offered, ending in a journeyman’s certificate from the U.S. Department of Labor. See prison education, vocational training, and the Bureau’s literacy and GED rules.

The law library sits in Education and holds the United States Code Service, the Federal Reporter, the Supreme Court Reporter, Bureau program statements, and institution supplements. The electronic law library needs an account: a cop-out to the Assistant Supervisor of Education, then a call-out to sign the rules and collect a password. No notary is kept on site — the Unit Counselor arranges an outside contract notary, paid from the inmate account — though most federal filings can be signed under 28 U.S.C. § 1746 without one. The Bureau’s legal-activities rules govern access.

UNICOR runs at the FCI only. The factory “manufactures textile products for the military”; the penitentiary has none, as the Corrections Information Council also recorded in 2022. Hiring runs off four waiting lists — Priority, Financial Responsibility Program, a pre-release list for people within two years of release, and the regular list — and anyone in IFRP-refuse status is ineligible.

Faith-based and reentry programming

Three full-time chaplains serve the complex. Religious Services runs worship, counseling, ceremonial meals, holy-day observances, and the religious diet program — entry requires an integrity interview, and participants are then barred from the mainline and hot bar. The Council found a recruitment problem: all volunteers were Christian and there were no Islamic volunteers, in a population whose most-cited faiths were Sunni Islam and the Nation of Islam. The Bureau replied that “due to USP Pollock’s geographic location, it is difficult to recruit qualified volunteers.”

The Bureau’s two flagship faith-based reentry programs are not here. The handbook says: “The Life Connections and Threshold Programs highlight our faith-based reentry priorities, but is not available at FCC Pollock.”

The Release Preparation Program runs in six core topic areas, one class in each needed for credit. Halfway house referrals are evaluated by the Unit Team and signed by the Warden. The January 2023 handbook says U.S. Parole Commission hearings are held at FCC Pollock on a seventeen-week cycle by video conference — a reminder that some people at Pollock still serve sentences that carry parole eligibility.

One caution about program lists. The Bureau’s First Step Act approved-programs guide records what is approved to be offered. Approval is not delivery: whether a class is running this month, and how long the list is, is a question for the unit team.

What is daily life like at FCI Pollock?

Daily life at FCI Pollock is organized around counts, and there are more of them than at most institutions. The table is the shape of a weekday and a weekend, from the complex handbook; schedules change, so treat it as the shape of the day rather than a guarantee.

	Weekdays	Weekends and holidays
Wake-up	6:00 a.m.
Official counts	12:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m., 5:00 a.m., 4:10 p.m., 9:00 p.m.	Same, plus a 10:00 a.m. count
Breakfast	About 6:00 a.m.	Coffee hour 7:00 a.m.
Lunch	About 10:00 a.m.	Brunch after the 10:00 a.m. count clears
Dinner	After the 4:10 p.m. count clears
Uniform required	7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., and any time outside the unit	—
Sanitation inspections	From 7:30 a.m.	—
Telephones	6:00–7:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., and from the 4:10 p.m. count to 9:30 p.m.	6:00 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Cell doors secured	From 8:45 p.m.
Quiet hours, lights off	10:00 p.m. – 6:00 a.m.

The handbook gives two times for the evening stand-up count. One page puts it at 9:00 p.m., after doors are secured at 8:45; another says “Formal Stand-up Counts are conducted at 4:10 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.,” and the phone schedule on that page runs to 9:30.

Counts are stand-up counts with the lights on, and the handbook requires that “human flesh” be visible even on the overnight rounds, waking people if necessary. At the camp people stand on yellow lines painted in the dorms. A bed-book count uses photographs, and each person states their name and register number through the door.

Movement between counts comes in two forms: a five-minute one-way move and a ten-minute move, the second with two two-minute warnings, the first announced as “No further out bound inmate movement.” Red lines on the housing-unit floor mark where people wait, and staff will not unlock the door until everyone is behind them. In an emergency an automated system announces “Halt! Get on the ground!” and movement resumes only on an all-clear — from the Operations Lieutenant at the FCI, from the Tower 8 officer at the penitentiary.

Which unit eats first is decided by sanitation: the Institution Duty Officer scores each of the four pods weekly, the scores are averaged per unit, and the memo sets the mainline rotation for the week beginning Sunday. At the FCI, UNICOR and Facility orderlies eat first at noon and get thirty minutes.

Small rules with real consequences: two chairs per cell, assigned by number, never left outside, and never under the upper tier, because that is where staff run in an emergency. Prayer rugs go in the locker or folded at the foot of the bed. Active legal paperwork goes in the unit’s legal storage closet by arrangement with the Counselor, and holding another person’s legal work in your cell is a disciplinary matter. No more than three people may gather in an activity room. The complex is tobacco-free.

Recreation, under the Bureau’s recreation rules, covers intramural sports, physical fitness, wellness education, music classes, and band practice. Hobby craft is narrower than at most institutions: complex supplement POX-5370.11E allows only ceramics (FCI only), leather, painting and drawing, crochet, knitting, and origami. Only drawing and crochet may be done outside the hobby-craft shop, with a housing unit craft permit and within limits of 48 pencils, markers, or pens, ten skeins of yarn, and six hooks. Finished projects must be mailed home at the maker’s expense within 30 days, and anyone who neither buys supplies nor mails a project out for 60 days can be dropped.

Health services carry a $2.00 co-pay for any visit the person requests, waived if they are indigent — never having held $6.00 in the account in the past 30 days — and waived whenever staff initiate the appointment. Sick-call triage sign-up at the FCI begins at 6:05 a.m. during the five-minute morning move; Wednesday is the Special Housing Unit’s day. Pill line runs from the breakfast mainline through 7:30 a.m. and again at the evening mainline. First contact with a psychologist in Psychology Services ordinarily comes within 14 days of arrival, a requested individual appointment within 14 working days.

Medical staffing is pooled across the three prisons, which is why an appointment slips. On the Corrections Information Council’s 2017 visit the complex had three nurse practitioners and three physician assistants moving between the penitentiary, the FCI, and the camp, and two physicians rotating weekly between the penitentiary and the FCI to run the Chronic Care Clinic. FCC Pollock runs a Utilization Review Committee that reviews every course of treatment weekly, and hospitals are within about twenty miles. See medical care in federal prison for how to escalate when care is not happening, and the Bureau’s patient-care rules.

What do inspectors say about conditions at FCI Pollock?

Every on-site inspection that reaches FCI Pollock has covered the whole complex or the penitentiary next door: the Inspector General’s unannounced 2024 food-service inspection and the PREA audits of 2023 and 2026 covered the FCI as a member institution, and both DC Corrections Information Council inspections went to the penitentiary.

The audits reach inside this building, and FCC Pollock is one of the few Bureau institutions the Inspector General has inspected unannounced. Read each finding for the part of the complex it names.

The 2024 Inspector General inspection

Between June 4 and 6, 2024, the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General carried out unannounced, simultaneous inspections of food service at six Bureau institutions, one per region. FCC Pollock was the South Central Region’s. The report, E&I Report 25-062, was published on June 17, 2025, and notes that “Since 2023, the OIG has conducted such inspection visits at 13 BOP institutions”; the Inspector General’s May 2026 report on USP Canaan puts the figure at 14.

The headline finding was favorable: “we found food areas under control of the Food Service Department to be clean and did not identify any obvious indications that the food served to inmates was unsafe.” That week the complex held 1,526 at the FCI, 985 at the penitentiary, and 156 at the camp.

The criticisms were specific.

• Knife control. Multiple keys had been issued for the secure knife cages, against a policy requiring one per cage. The Food Service Administrator agreed, and told the inspectors before they left that it was fixed.
• No cameras in the warehouse. The food warehouse had no interior cameras, which the OIG said created “greater opportunities to potentially commit misconduct, including the diversion of food or facilitating the introduction of contraband.” The Bureau answered that policy does not require them there and the workers are minimum-security; the OIG kept the finding.
• Temperatures. Of six freezers and eleven refrigerators inspected, five freezers and two refrigerators were outside Bureau standards: freezers at 16.8, 16, 12.1, 8.4, and 6 degrees Fahrenheit against a standard of zero or below, refrigerators at 54.7 and 46 against 41 or below. A condenser leak was later repaired and the Bureau installed TempTrak software for real-time monitoring.
• Heat. The air conditioning in the penitentiary’s kitchen was inoperable and the food preparation area was 86 degrees. An employee told the inspectors the kitchen was “extremely hot” and the inmates were “working in brutal heat.” It was repaired on July 26, 2024, with new chilled water coils, and FCC Pollock then wrote a Heat Stress Prevention Procedure.
• Floors and wiring. Floor tiles were damaged and missing in the dishwasher area and around the cook kettles, and several employees said staff had been hurt slipping on the uneven wet tiles. Wall-mounted electrical boxes were uncovered with wires exposed in the kitchen and the secure cafeteria serving area. Both were repaired by April 2025.
• Feeding people in their cells. Heating components were broken on nine of the complex’s fifteen mobile food carts — the carts that feed people when the dining hall closes during a disruption. New components were installed.

Food Service was staffed at 96 percent — 27 of 28 authorized posts filled — yet three of those employees were on limited duty after workplace injuries, and the acting Complex Warden told the inspectors that running the department with the staff available “had been a challenge.” A department nominally at 96 percent and functionally short is the ordinary condition of a federal prison, and it is why a call-out gets canceled or a medical appointment slips.

The 2026 PREA audit

FCC Pollock was audited under the Prison Rape Elimination Act on March 31 to April 2, 2026, by an independent auditor, Lynni O’Haver of Corrections Consulting Services. The final report is dated May 12, 2026. The complex passed: 45 standards met, none exceeded, none unmet, no corrective action.

The audit’s profile of the complex:

Buildings	79
Inmate housing units	28 — none single-cell; 26 multiple-occupancy cell units and 2 open dormitories
Segregation cells	96 at the FCI, 70 at the penitentiary
Designated capacity	FCI 1,152 · camp 256 · penitentiary 891
Population at the audit	FCI 1,460 · camp 199 · penitentiary 870
Average daily population, prior 12 months	FCI 1,504 · camp 187 · penitentiary 890
Age range	FCI 19 to 67 · camp 22 to 74 · penitentiary 21 to 66
Average length of stay	FCI 491 days · camp 323 days · penitentiary 636 days
Staff who may have inmate contact	557, of whom 44 were hired in the prior 12 months
Contractors / volunteers on site	32 / 17
Accreditation	ACA. The audit form’s boxes for NCCHC and CALEA are not ticked

Two of those rows disagree and the report does not reconcile them: the per-institution populations add to 2,529, while the audit’s own count of everyone in the complex on day one is 2,562. Thirty-three people fall between two fields of one document.

Of the 2,562 people held here on day one, 52 had disclosed prior sexual victimization at risk screening, 58 had a cognitive or functional disability, 19 were limited English proficient, five had a physical disability, and two each were blind or low-vision and deaf or hard of hearing. No one was in segregated housing because of a risk of sexual victimization. Sexual assault forensic examinations are done at a local hospital, not at the prison.

In the twelve months before the audit the complex recorded 18 allegations of inmate-on-inmate sexual abuse — two unfounded, fifteen unsubstantiated, one still open — and none at all of staff-on-inmate sexual abuse. On sexual harassment there were nine allegations, one of them substantiated. None of the abuse matters was investigated criminally. The audit records that the Bureau employs 253 staff who conduct administrative investigations of sexual abuse and harassment agency-wide, and that this facility employs no criminal investigators — criminal investigation being a matter for a Justice Department component.

Two limitations travel with that result. The auditor reviewed 13 sexual-abuse investigation files and answered “No” when the form asked whether the selection included a cross-section of investigations by findings and outcome. And the interview sample was 39 people chosen at random plus 12 targeted, out of 2,562 — one person in fifty.

The audit also records a change in how these audits are now run, in its own words: “Per BJA Memorandum dated December 2, 2025, in alignment with Executive Order 14168, targeted interviews with transgender or intersex inmates are no longer applicable to a compliance finding and therefore, were not interviewed under the targeted category.” Two provisions of standard 115.15, on cross-gender viewing and searches, are likewise marked no longer applicable. That describes the audit, not the prison: the categories of prisoner most exposed to sexual abuse in custody were not separately interviewed.

The 2023 PREA audit, and what changed

FCC Pollock’s previous PREA audit was conducted on May 2–4, 2023, by Marc L. Coudriet, an independent auditor subcontracted by PREA Auditors of America, final report May 25, 2023. It passed too: 43 standards met, two exceeded — cross-gender viewing and employee training — and none unmet.

The two audits compare as follows.

	May 2023 audit	March–April 2026 audit
Complex population at the visit	3,068 on day one	2,562 on day one
Average daily population, prior year	2,884	2,581 (890 + 1,504 + 187)
Designated capacity	2,299	2,299
Standards met / exceeded / unmet	43 / 2 / 0	45 / 0 / 0
Random inmate interviews	26	39
Sexual abuse allegations, prior 12 months	11 — eight inmate-on-inmate, three staff-on-inmate	18 — all inmate-on-inmate
Outside consultation	The complex’s own chief psychologist	Just Detention International

The complex has shed roughly 500 people in three years and is still above its designated capacity. And in 2023 the auditor’s answer to the question about consulting a community-based organization or victim advocate was the prison’s own chief psychologist; in 2026 the auditor went to Just Detention International, an outside advocacy organization. The audit with the weaker outreach is the one that awarded two “exceeds standard” findings.

The following counts are small and self-reported. On day one in May 2023 the complex recorded three people who identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual and ten who identified as transgender or intersex. On day one in March 2026: none, and one.

What the DC inspections cover, and what they do not

The District of Columbia Corrections Information Council inspects Bureau prisons because DC residents are held in federal custody. It has been to Pollock twice and both times went to the penitentiary. Its 2019 report says so in terms: “This report reflects information gathered from an inspection conducted solely on the USP facility.” Nothing in either report is a finding about FCI Pollock.

They still bear on the FCI: the two prisons share water, laundry, and medical staff, and the Council’s reports give the FCI’s size at each visit — a capacity of 1,400 in 2017 and 1,640 people in 2022.

The first inspection was on December 14 and 15, 2017, reported in July 2019. Of the 48 DC residents at the penitentiary, 14 answered the survey. The facility reported 16 lockdowns in the twelve months to October 2017, and mail was delayed up to four months — the Council’s own mail, sent in December 2017, had still not arrived by March 2018. On water, the report records that “the water inside of an inmate’s cell turned the color of both a Q-tip and an inmate’s toilet bowl to blue and green.” The Council also recorded being made to leave at 3:30 p.m. rather than 5:00 on both days, and DC residents in the Special Housing Unit held in indoor cages, shackled hand and foot, for more than six hours while waiting to be interviewed.

The second inspection was on September 28 and 29, 2022, reported in February 2023; the Council wrote that “the June and July 2022 deaths of two D.C. residents” made safety its priority, though the Bureau’s inmate locator dates both deaths to July. Of 54 DC residents, 37 responded. The penitentiary had been on lockdown since June 2022 and on “modified operations” since August, and the Council “observed no distinguishable differences between standard lockdown operations and ‘modified operations’.” Of those 37: 23 said staff do not communicate major facility changes; 28 reported no access to legal materials; 24 were dissatisfied with medical care and 22 said sick call is not answered within 48 hours; 27 did not feel comfortable reporting violence to staff. Residents in one block reported no hot water and in another water that was “green and unusable.”

Read those counts with the denominator in front of you: 37 volunteers out of 54 DC residents out of 1,180 people, and 14 out of 48 out of 907 five years earlier. They are the views of a small, self-selected group of DC Code offenders.

The Bureau’s written responses are published alongside both reports and contain facts that apply to the FCI as much as the penitentiary. FCC Pollock runs a centralized laundry — clothes washed twice a week, linen exchanged once a week, cleaning supplies handed out weekly. The Town of Pollock is the complex’s contracted water distribution agent and runs its own treatment plant, testing annually. And the complex had asked for funding for a new boiler system.

FCI Pollock in the news

Recent news about FCI Pollock centers on a June 2026 drone-smuggling indictment, a March 2026 staff sentencing, and three deaths in custody between October 2024 and February 2025; older items concern a 2023 drug-conspiracy sentencing and a 2018 staff bribery conviction. Ramadhan Jaabir Justice, who died after a fight on April 24, 2025, was held at USP Pollock, not FCI Pollock: both the Bureau’s notice, as reproduced by KLAX-TV, and its inmate locator record, register 66820-056, place him there. Items about this institution rather than the complex generally, newest first:

• June 2026 — drone smuggling indictment. An indictment unsealed in the Middle District of Georgia, No. 5:26-cr-00026, charged twelve people in what the Justice Department called the largest federal prosecution to date involving coordinated drone operations to smuggle into prisons. It alleges that between September 2023 and May 2026 six drones dropped contraband at least 38 times into ten federal prisons, FCI Pollock among them. An indictment is an allegation; everyone charged is presumed innocent.
• March 2026 — staff conviction. Charles Humphreys, a former correctional officer assigned to FCI Pollock, was sentenced in the Western District of Louisiana to three years’ probation for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances in a federal correctional complex. Per the factual basis for his guilty plea, from 2022 he smuggled cigarettes, K2, and paper laced with naloxone and buprenorphine into the prison, and admitted receiving about $4,000 a delivery for three men inside. Investigated by the Inspector General’s Houston office.
• February 2025 — a death in the early hours. Artavius Burnett, 26, was found unresponsive at about 12:15 a.m. on February 18 and pronounced dead by paramedics. He was serving an aggregate 180 months from the Western District of Tennessee and had been at FCI Pollock since September 2024. His aunt told a local station the family learned of his death from a news report and that only the chaplain called; the Bureau replied that the institution did notify the next of kin, and that it is the incarcerated person’s responsibility to name in writing who should be told.
• November 2024 — Javier Fraire-Martinez, 42, found unresponsive at about 12:50 a.m. on November 8. He was serving 58 months from the Western District of Texas for illegal reentry and had been at FCI Pollock since March 2024.
• October 2024 — Jacob Ryan Scribner, 37, found unresponsive at about 6:00 a.m. on October 22. He was serving 48 months from the Northern District of Oklahoma and had been at FCI Pollock since May 2024. The Bureau said no staff or other incarcerated people were injured.
• October 2023 — drug conspiracy run from inside. Two men were sentenced in the Western District of Louisiana, one to 157 months and one to 120, after an investigation begun in January 2021 into a federal prisoner at FCI Pollock believed to be coordinating large-scale drug distribution using contraband phones smuggled in to reach cartel contacts outside.
• April 2018 — staff bribery conviction. A federal jury convicted Byron A. Wyatt, 38, a corrections officer at the Federal Correctional Complex in Pollock, on two counts of bribery for taking thousands of dollars from a prisoner in 2014 in exchange for smuggling contraband. He was sentenced in August 2019 to two years. The Justice Department’s release names the complex, not the FCI.

Three of those entries are deaths at this institution inside four months, between October 22, 2024, and February 18, 2025, and all three men were found unresponsive in the early morning, between about 12:15 and 6:00 a.m. This page gives no cause of death for any of them and does not speculate. FCI Pollock has its own record, separate from the penitentiary’s, and the Bureau’s practice is to announce a death and refer the matter to the FBI.

Frequently asked questions about FCI Pollock

Problems at FCI Pollock: where we can help

The problems that recur at Pollock start with the complex itself: mail and money sent to the wrong one of three prisons on one site, a medium that runs at 126 percent of its designated capacity, and no drug program on the ground to enroll in. These are the issues that come up here, and they run on deadlines that are easy to miss:

• The missing RDAP year. There is no residential drug program at any Pollock institution, and there is none anywhere in Louisiana. Getting the § 3621(e) year means a transfer, and the transfer takes time the Bureau will not give back. The work is a written request, a diagnosis in the record, and a designation or transfer request that names the receiving institution.
• Designation and transfer. Whether someone is at the FCI, the penitentiary, or the camp turns on security points, Public Safety Factors, and a Management Variable, all of which are arguable with documents. So does a nearer-release transfer. See our guide to federal prison transfers.
• Medical care that is not happening. Care here is delivered by a small staff shared across three prisons, and outside consults run through a regional review. The escalation path is a written request to staff, then the administrative remedy process, which has a clock on every rung — and, where negligence has caused injury, a Federal Tort Claims Act claim on Standard Form 95 to the South Central Regional Office in Grand Prairie, Texas.
• First Step Act time credits — whether they are being earned, calculated, and applied correctly, and whether a program someone is enrolled in actually counts. See First Step Act time credits and our First Step Act credit services.
• Halfway house and home confinement placement, and how long it lasts. See halfway houses, home confinement, and our early-release work.
• Disciplinary proceedings. A great deal here is written up: a lock on anything but a locker, boots off the detail site, a chair left outside a cell. Each incident report can cost good conduct time. See inmate discipline proceedings and Special Housing Unit placements that outlast their justification.
• Sentence computation and compassionate release. A petition about the calculation of a sentence, good conduct time, or time credits by someone held here is filed against the warden in the Western District of Louisiana, Alexandria Division, wherever the sentence was originally imposed. See compassionate release and the Bureau’s reduction-in-sentence rules.
• Challenges to the conviction or sentence itself, through a direct appeal or a § 2255 motion.

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Sources and currency

Bureau of Prisons documents

• FCI Pollock, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Address, contact details, mailing blocks, and posted documents.
• USP Pollock, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Penitentiary and camp addresses.
• F.C.C. Pollock Commissary List, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FCC Pollock, 2024. Spending limit, category caps, and prices.
• FCC Pollock Inmate Admission & Orientation Handbook, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FCC Pollock, 2023. Visiting, mail, money, telephones, commissary, programs, schedule, counts, and directions.
• Trust Fund/Deposit Fund Manual, Program Statement 4500.13, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Spending limit, exclusions, deposit routes, and holds.
• Inmate Telephone Regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Monthly minute allowance and call rules; replaced Program Statement 5264.08 (2008).
• Psychology Treatment Programs, Program Statement 5330.11, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2016. RDAP screening and transfer.
• Searching, Detaining, or Arresting Visitors to Bureau Grounds and Facilities, Program Statement 5510.16, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Visitor searches, including ion spectrometry.
• First Step Act Approved Programs Guide, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Reentry Services Division, 2026. Includes the RDAP locations list, which supersedes the Bureau’s standalone January 2025 list.

Audits and inspections

• PREA Audit Report: Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) Pollock, Corrections Consulting Services, LLC, 2026. Auditor Lynni O’Haver; covers the whole complex.
• Inspection of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ U.S. Penitentiary Canaan (Report 26-055), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2026. Includes the Inspector General’s count of institutions inspected since 2023.
• Concurrent Inspections of BOP Food Service Operations (Report 25-062), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2025. Findings from the June 2024 inspection at FCC Pollock and the Bureau’s responses.
• PREA Facility Audit Report: Final, FCC Pollock, PREA Auditors of America, LLC, 2023. Auditor Marc L. Coudriet; superseded by the 2026 audit.
• USP Pollock: Report on Findings and Recommendations, District of Columbia Corrections Information Council, 2023. Inspection of the penitentiary on September 28–29, 2022, with the Bureau’s responses.
• USP Pollock Inspection Report, District of Columbia Corrections Information Council, 2019. Inspection of the penitentiary on December 14–15, 2017.

Court records

• Twelve Indicted in Alleged Drone Smuggling Conspiracy at Ten Prisons, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Georgia, 2026. The indictment in No. 5:26-cr-00026.
• Former BOP Correctional Officer Sentenced to 3 years’ Federal Probation for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Controlled Substances in a Federal Correctional Complex, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2026. Charles Humphreys’s sentence.
• Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Operations Lead to Lengthy Federal Prison Sentences for Two Men, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Louisiana, 2023. The October 2023 sentences.
• Federal jury finds former Pollock detention facility corrections officer guilty of bribery, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Louisiana, 2018. Byron A. Wyatt’s bribery conviction.

News and other sources

• Alexandria, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, 2026. Parishes served and courthouse location.
• Death at USP Pollock, KLAX-TV, 2025. Reproduces the Bureau’s notice of the April 24, 2025, death of Ramadhan Jaabir Justice.
• Federal Bureau of Prisons Responds to Death of Pollock Inmate, KALB, 2025.
• ‘They Failed Us’: Family of Deceased FCI Pollock Inmate Seeking Answers, KALB, 2025.
• Another Death Reported at FCI Pollock, KALB, 2025. The death of Artavius Burnett.
• Ex-Proud Boys Leader Enrique Tarrio Back Home After Trump’s Jan. 6 Clemency, NBC News, 2025.
• Inmate Dies at FCI Pollock, KALB, 2024. The death of Javier Fraire-Martinez.
• Inmate at FCI Pollock Dies, KALB, 2024. The death of Jacob Ryan Scribner.
• 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e), Imprisonment of a convicted person, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 28 U.S.C. § 1746, Unsworn declarations under penalty of perjury, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 28 U.S.C. § 2241, Power to grant writ, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).

Sources reviewed September 2026.

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