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

Federal prisons in Florida at a glance

The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates 8 institutions in Florida, three of them with a satellite camp, holding 10,605 people as of September 2026. Four stand on one campus at Coleman, and all of them sit in the Bureau’s Southeast Region, run from Atlanta.

InstitutionType and securityHoldsPopulationCamp or satelliteCityJudicial district
USP Coleman IU.S. Penitentiary · HighMen1,175—SumtervilleMiddle District of Florida
USP Coleman IIU.S. Penitentiary · HighMen1,025—SumtervilleMiddle District of Florida
FCI Coleman MediumFederal Correctional Institution · MediumMen1,518—SumtervilleMiddle District of Florida
FCI MariannaFederal Correctional Institution · MediumMen and women865Camp: 259MariannaNorthern District of Florida
FCI Coleman LowFederal Correctional Institution · LowMen1,607Camp: 508SumtervilleMiddle District of Florida
FCI MiamiFederal Correctional Institution · LowMen796Camp: 188MiamiSouthern District of Florida
FCI TallahasseeFederal Correctional Institution · LowMen and women1,257—TallahasseeNorthern District of Florida
FDC MiamiFederal Detention Center · AdministrativeMen and women1,407—MiamiSouthern District of Florida
Total8 institutions9,650955
Federal Bureau of Prisons facility roster and population statistics, September 2026.

One Florida page here is not a Bureau institution and is not in the count above: FPC Pensacola came off the Bureau’s roster after its camp closed, and this site keeps its page as a record of a closed facility.

How many federal prisons are in Florida?

Eight on the Bureau of Prisons roster. Two are high security, USP Coleman I and USP Coleman II; two medium, FCI Coleman Medium and FCI Marianna; three low, FCI Coleman Low, FCI Miami and FCI Tallahassee; one administrative, FDC Miami. Three carry a minimum-security satellite camp, counted inside that institution’s row. Four share one campus in Sumter County that the Bureau lists as FCC Coleman, and no other federal complex holds as many people. Our guide to security levels explains what they mean, and the Bureau of Prisons directory gives the national picture. A former Florida camp keeps a page here too, in the closures section below.

What is each federal prison in Florida like?

All eight, in the table’s order.

USP Coleman I

The first of two high-security penitentiaries at Coleman, for men, with no camp. Of the sixteen penitentiaries the Bureau runs, fourteen are the only high-security prison at their address; the two exceptions stand side by side here, so a filing that says only “USP Coleman” names neither. See USP Coleman I.

USP Coleman II

The second penitentiary on that campus, also high security for men. It runs a Reintegration Housing Unit, one of only three the Bureau activated: a residential alternative to the Special Housing Unit for men who cannot safely live on an ordinary yard. See USP Coleman II.

FCI Coleman Medium

Medium security for men, the third prison on the campus and the only one of the four housed in two-person cells rather than open dormitories. It has no camp. See FCI Coleman Medium.

FCI Marianna

Medium security for men in Jackson County, in the panhandle and on Central time, with a satellite camp beside it holding women. It is a Sex Offender Management Program institution, so people with sexual-offense histories are designated here deliberately and assessed whether or not they seek treatment. See FCI Marianna.

FCI Coleman Low

Low security for men, and the only one of the four Coleman prisons with a satellite camp. It is one of two on the campus running the Residential Drug Abuse Program, so a man at the Medium who wants that program has to be moved. See FCI Coleman Low.

FCI Miami

Low security for men in the far southwest of Miami-Dade County, with a satellite camp, and the one institution for men in the federal system where the Residential Drug Abuse Program is delivered in Spanish, as its own handbook says. See FCI Miami.

FCI Tallahassee

A low-security institution for women in the state capital, with a detention center for men on the same grounds under the same facility code. The Inspector General inspected it unannounced in May 2023, only the second such inspection anywhere in the Bureau. See FCI Tallahassee.

FDC Miami

The Bureau’s detention center in downtown Miami, holding men and women, few of them serving a sentence: people awaiting trial or sentencing in the Southern District of Florida, and sentenced people waiting to be moved. Since February 2025 it has also held immigration detainees for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. See FDC Miami.

Which federal prisons in Florida hold women?

Three of the eight. FCI Tallahassee is the only Florida institution where women are the sentenced population rather than an adjacent camp. The camp at FCI Marianna holds women on the fence line of a men’s prison and has no Special Housing Unit of its own. FDC Miami holds men and women, nearly all unsentenced. Our guide to women’s federal prisons sets out how those placements are made.

Which Bureau of Prisons regional office oversees Florida?

The Southeast Regional Office, in Atlanta, Georgia. Every Florida institution on the roster belongs to that region, which also takes in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Puerto Rico. The region is the second rung of the administrative remedy ladder: Program Statement 1330.18 allows someone dissatisfied with the Warden’s answer 20 calendar days to appeal to the Regional Director on form BP-10, at pp. 6–7, and warns at p. 7 that “These deadlines specify the date of the Appeal’s receipt in the regional office or the Central Office.” The rung below is our guide to filing a BP-9.

Which RRM office handles halfway-house placement from Florida?

Two offices, overlapping in the middle of the state. Florida is divided into three judicial districts, the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, under 28 U.S.C. § 89. The Bureau’s page for RRM Orlando prints Northern Florida and Middle Florida; its page for RRM Miami prints Southern Florida and Middle Florida, along with Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. bop.gov therefore lists the Middle District under both offices rather than dividing it.

Placement turns on the district a person is going home to, not on where the prison stands. Program Statement 7310.04 tells the Warden, where there is significant doubt about a referral, to consider “contacting the Chief USPO in the release district,” at p. 12. A woman leaving FCI Tallahassee for Fort Lauderdale is a Southern District matter although the prison is in the Northern. Our page on federal halfway houses explains when the referral is made.

How do I find, write to, visit or send money to someone in a Florida federal prison?

Four steps, none of them peculiar to Florida, though the Coleman complex changes three of them.

What you needHow it works, and what is different here
Find someoneThe inmate locator searches the whole system by register number or by name. Here it also settles which Coleman prison holds a person, because the screen names the institution and not the complex.
WriteUse the address block the institution itself publishes. The four Coleman prisons use four different post office boxes, with the camp on a fifth, and a letter sent to the wrong box has gone to a different prison. See writing to someone inside.
VisitEach institution runs on its own visiting supplement rather than a state-wide rule, and each Coleman prison has its own visiting room. Read the facility page before booking travel. See visitation.
Send moneyNational channels only: a lockbox by mail, Western Union Quick Collect or MoneyGram. Program Statement 4500.13 states at p. 79 that “Ordinarily, funds sent to an inmate via the Western Union Quick Collect/MoneyGram Program are posted to the inmate’s account within two hours of the transfer, if it was initiated between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. EST.” See sending money.
Practical steps for a family with someone in a Florida federal prison.

Which federal prisons in Florida are closing or have closed?

None of the eight is closing: Florida was not named in the Bureau’s July 1, 2026 closure announcement.

FPC Pensacola, the closed minimum-security camp, is off the roster and is not one of the eight. The Associated Press reported on December 5, 2024 that the Bureau was shuttering the camp and that its buildings, owned by the Navy, were in “significant disrepair” and would be demolished once those held there and the staff had been relocated. The Bureau’s later environmental finding, signed July 13, 2026, returns the camp to the Navy “with no upgrades, alterations, new construction or building demolitions planned.” Our explainer on major federal prison closures sets out the wider pattern.

How many federal prisons does the Bureau of Prisons run in Florida?

Eight on the Bureau’s roster: two high-security penitentiaries, two medium-security prisons, three low-security prisons and one detention center. Three of the eight also carry a minimum-security satellite camp, counted inside that institution rather than as a prison of its own, and four stand together at Coleman.

What is the largest federal prison in Florida by population?

FCI Coleman Low, which held 1,607 people as of September 2026. Its satellite camp is printed as a separate row, with a further 508, so the site holds more than the institution figure alone shows. Coleman Low is the largest Florida institution either way.

Does Florida have a high-security federal penitentiary?

Two, side by side. USP Coleman I and USP Coleman II are both United States Penitentiaries for men on the Coleman campus in Sumter County, and Coleman is the only address in the federal system with two of them. They share a complex warden and little else.

Where are women held in federal custody in Florida?

At three of the eight. FCI Tallahassee holds women serving sentences, with a detention center for men on the same campus. The camp at FCI Marianna holds women beside a medium-security prison for men. FDC Miami holds both, nearly all of them unsentenced.

Where are pretrial federal detainees held in Florida?

Mostly at FDC Miami, which takes people awaiting trial or sentencing in the Southern District of Florida along with sentenced people waiting to be moved. A second detention center for men shares the FCI Tallahassee campus and takes Northern District cases.

Which reentry office handles halfway-house placement for someone releasing to Florida?

RRM Orlando or RRM Miami, depending on the district the person is going home to. The Orlando page prints Northern Florida and Middle Florida; the Miami page prints Southern Florida and Middle Florida. Because the Middle District appears under both, a family in Tampa may deal with either.

Can someone ask to be designated to a federal prison in Florida?

A request can be made and the sentencing judge may recommend one, but the decision belongs to the Bureau. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(b) it “shall designate the place of the prisoner’s imprisonment” and, subject to the factors the statute lists, place the person “in a facility as close as practicable to the prisoner’s primary residence.”

How can a federal defense firm help a family with someone in a Florida federal prison?

Three problems recur at Florida institutions, each documented on the facility pages. Identity: four prisons share one address at Coleman, and mail, deposits and visits sent to the wrong one are not carried across the campus. Programming: FCI Marianna is a Sex Offender Management Program institution and FCI Miami runs the drug program in Spanish, so where someone lands decides what is open to them, which is where First Step Act time credit and early release disputes begin. Scale: inspectors at Coleman recorded long waits for medical care and for classes, among the problems we work on inside.

Elizabeth Franklin-Best, P.C. is a federal criminal defense and post-conviction firm based in Columbia, South Carolina, practicing nationwide. Mentions of Florida places on this page do not imply an office or a lawyer there.

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