FCI Marianna: Medium Prison and Women’s Camp

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

FCI Marianna at a glance

FCI Marianna is a medium-security federal prison for men in Marianna, Florida, with a minimum-security satellite camp for women beside it. It held 1,124 people as of September 2026: 865 men at the fenced institution and 259 women at the camp. It sits in Jackson County in the Florida panhandle, about 75 miles west of FCI Tallahassee, and, unlike Tallahassee, on Central time.

Official name	Federal Correctional Institution, Marianna
BOP code	MNA
Security level	Medium; men · satellite camp: minimum; women
Population	1,124 (as of September 2026) · 865 at the FCI, 259 at the camp
Visiting	No current schedule published · see visiting hours
Inmate mail	FCI: Inmate Name & Register Number · FCI Marianna · Federal Correctional Institution · P.O. Box 7007 · Marianna, FL 32447 Camp: Inmate Name & Register Number · FCI Marianna · Federal Correctional Institution · Satellite Camp · P.O. Box 7006 · Marianna, FL 32447
Send money	Lockbox · Western Union (code city FBOP, DC) · MoneyGram (receive code 7932)
Phone	850-526-2313 · Fax 850-718-2014
Street address	3625 FCI Road, Marianna, FL 32446 · Jackson County
Judicial district	Northern District of Florida
BOP region	Southeast
Designated capacity	1,113
Housing	Seven units: one single-cell, four multiple-occupancy cell, two open dormitory
Special Housing Unit	50 segregation cells at the FCI · none at the camp; women go to FCI Tallahassee
RDAP	Yes, at the FCI · camp not listed
Sex offender treatment	Sex Offender Management Program site · non-residential program (SOTP-NR)
UNICOR	Yes
Camp	Minimum-security satellite camp for women

It is one of the federal prisons in Florida and falls under the Bureau’s Southeast Region. In June 2024 the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General inspected it unannounced; its report, published a year later, found that Marianna and USP McCreary had the greatest number of deficiencies of the six institutions inspected that week.

One fence line, two prisons: the camp here holds women

FCI Marianna is one address with two prisons on it: the fenced institution holds men at medium security, and the satellite camp next to it holds women at minimum security. Almost every other question about a stay here depends on that split. The two share a mailing town, a commissary list, a warden and a phone number, and are otherwise different places to serve a sentence.

The Inspector General’s June 2025 food-service report describes “a medium-security institution for male inmates with an adjacent minimum-security camp for female inmates.” The auditor who inspected this facility in May 2026 under the Prison Rape Elimination Act wrote that “[t]his institution houses female inmates at the SCP (Satellite Prison Camp).” The Bureau’s facility page lists the inmate sex as “Male and Female Offenders.” And a 2018 Inspector General review named FPC Marianna among the institutions where “BOP housed female and male inmates in buildings separated by fences.”

One consequence can catch a family off guard. The camp has no Special Housing Unit of its own. When a woman at the Marianna camp has to be separated from the general population, she is not moved to a segregation cell on the grounds — she is driven to FCI Tallahassee, roughly 75 miles east, and held in the SHU at the female prison there. The Inspector General recorded this in its November 2023 inspection of FCI Tallahassee, and gave the scale of it: of the 24 people in that SHU on May 23, 2023, six had come from Marianna. The person a family drove to Jackson County to see may then be in another county and another time zone, under a different institution’s visiting schedule.

Florida has one of the larger federal prison rosters in the country, and the names run together. This table separates them.

Federal prison	Where	What it is
FCI Marianna (this page)	Marianna, Jackson County	Medium security, men; minimum-security camp for women
FCI Tallahassee	Tallahassee	Low security for women, with a detention center for men
FCI Miami	Miami	Low security, men, with a camp
FDC Miami	Downtown Miami	Detention center, mostly pretrial
FCC Coleman	Sumterville	A four-prison complex: two penitentiaries, a low, a medium and a camp

Anyone sentenced in a Florida state court is not here, and the federal Inmate Locator will not find them. Our guide to federal prisons in Florida sets out the full roster.

What is the security level at FCI Marianna?

FCI Marianna is medium security, and its satellite camp is minimum security. The independent auditor who reviewed the facility in May 2026 recorded both, and recorded the custody classifications the Bureau assigns here: “In,” “Community” and “Out.” A person at the institution is in custody level “In”; camp residents hold “Out” or “Community” custody, which is what allows them to work on the grounds outside the fence.

The same audit describes the physical plant: 48 buildings, seven housing units, 50 segregation cells, a designated capacity of 1,113 against an average daily population of 1,103, and 307 staff who may have inmate contact — only three of them hired in the previous year.

Which side of the fence someone lands on is decided before they arrive, at the Bureau’s Designation and Sentence Computation Center, and it turns on a security point score and on whether any Public Safety Factor applies. A Public Safety Factor overrides the points and keeps a person out of a camp however low they score. Marianna adds a second filter: it is a Sex Offender Management Program site, with its own referral routes and its own rules about who can be transferred away again, covered in the next section. Our guides to the intake process and to preparing for a self-surrender cover the first days after arrival.

What does it mean that FCI Marianna is a SOMP institution?

It means the Bureau sends people with sexual offense histories here on purpose, assesses every one of them whether or not they ask for treatment, and watches for a defined category of conduct. The institution’s handbook states the designation: “FCI Marianna is one of six SOMP programs in the Bureau of Prisons. The purpose of the program is to decrease criminal recidivism of sex offenders through effective risk appraisal and management, provide treatment opportunities and for community transition planning.”

“One of six” was true when that handbook was issued in 2014. The Bureau’s First Step Act Approved Programs Guide of August 2026 now names nine institutions on its own page for the Non-Residential Sex Offender Treatment Program, Marianna among them: CRW, ELK, ENG, MNA, MAR, MIL, PEM, SEA and TCP. The same guide’s programs-by-institution table also marks nine and also marks Marianna, but substitutes FCI Fairton for FCI Petersburg Medium; the two halves of the document disagree about that one site, not about this one. Either way, nine in a system of roughly 120 institutions.

The designation is a staffing table as much as a label. The 2014 handbook lists six psychologists here, two of them dedicated to this mission, plus three SOMP treatment specialists; the Bureau’s sex offender program rules, Program Statement 5324.10, require those posts to be used for nothing else, “not … for non-clinical duties (e.g., custody, unit, or case management functions),” except in an emergency. That establishment is twelve years old. Ask the unit team who the SOMP Coordinator is now.

What the treatment program is, in hours

The non-residential program at Marianna is a moderate-intensity program built for people assessed as low to moderate risk. Program Statement 5324.10 sets its shape: “Ordinarily, SOTP-NR entails 4 to 6 hours of programming per week over 9 to 12 months, to achieve a total of no less than 144 hours of direct contact with treatment staff.” A single staff member may carry no more than 24 participants. The August 2026 First Step Act guide records the same 144 hours as an evidence-based recidivism reduction program delivered by Psychology Services, ordinarily taken in the last 36 to 48 months of a sentence; the Bureau’s public description of the program puts it as “outpatient groups meeting 2-3 times per week for several hours.”

Risk is scored on an actuarial instrument — the policy names the Static-99R — or, where a person cannot be scored, on the SOMP Coordinator’s judgment about the offense and criminal history. A high-risk assessment changes the path: high-risk participants “ordinarily only participate in Phase I in the SOTP-NR prior to transfer to the SOTP-R.” The residential program does not run here. The Bureau operates it at two institutions in the whole system, USP Marion in Illinois and FMC Devens in Massachusetts, twelve to eighteen months, five days a week. A high-risk assessment at Marianna points toward a transfer out of Florida, not toward a program here.

The half that is not voluntary: property, mail and the mailroom

Treatment is a choice. Management is not. Where staff identify what the policy calls risk-relevant behavior — “[i]nstitution behavior related to a sexual offender’s history that indicates risk of future sexual offending upon release (e.g., an inmate convicted of child pornography who collects pictures of children)” — a SOMP psychologist may write a Correctional Management Plan restricting property, mail, telephone and visiting. It is not a disciplinary sanction, it comes from no hearing, and it carries no disciplinary appeal.

For people writing to someone here, the property categories are the practical part. Program Statement 5324.10 allows restriction of items usable as sexual paraphernalia, including “photographs, pictures, or drawings depicting adults or children in sexually explicit or suggestive poses or situations”; material that promotes the sexual exploitation of children; “[w]ritten correspondence in which individuals are discussed in a sexualized way”; and anything else the SOMP Coordinator ties to that person’s risk. A family photograph at the beach, sent without a thought, is the item that most often starts this conversation.

One line of that policy was rewritten recently. Change Notice 5324.10 CN-1, signed February 18, 2025, amended the program statement “to remove references to any concept that may conflict with the January 20, 2025, Executive Order Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”; in the property section a restriction on material “reflect[ing] a degrading attitude to persons based on gender” became “based on sex.” The same executive order surfaces in this institution’s 2026 PREA audit, where two provisions on communications with transgender inmates were excluded from the compliance determination entirely.

Mail under a plan is read twice. SOMP staff “will not perform routine correctional monitoring of mail” — that is the mailroom’s job — but they “may be expected to perform secondary monitoring of mail when an inmate has an active Correctional Management Plan, to determine the presence of risk-relevant material.” A letter then passes a clinician’s eye as well as an officer’s, and that adds a delay no one can predict.

The document this institution does not publish

Program Statement 5324.10 requires that “[e]ach institution with a Sex Offender Management Program is required to have an Institution Supplement that reflects that institution’s unique characteristics and specifies how it will monitor inmates for risk-relevant behavior.” Marianna’s exists and is not public. Everything the Bureau publishes for this facility is the handbook in English and Spanish, the commissary list, the PREA audit, and a link to a national program statement. Nothing local about how this prison decides what counts as risk-relevant conduct is published.

Local supplements exist — the PREA auditor cites one by number, MNA 5324.12H — they are simply not posted. If a Correctional Management Plan is imposed, ask in writing for a copy and for the local supplement it was written under, and keep the response.

The Bureau has published no figure for the share of the population here serving a sentence for a current or past sexual offense, and neither has any inspector. The figure of roughly 40 percent that circulates for Marianna has no published source.

Who are the notable inmates at FCI Marianna?

FCI Marianna has no publicly notable inmates on the public record: court records, Justice Department press releases and Bureau announcements name no well-known person held here. That is unusual for a federal prison of this size.

There is a reason. A Sex Offender Management Program institution draws a population the press does not follow, and the camp holds a few hundred women serving mostly short sentences — the 2026 audit puts the average stay there at 369.9 days, against 870.3 at the institution.

If you have read that a particular person is held here, check it before you act on it. The Inmate Locator prints a facility’s name and type, not its code: “Marianna FCI” is this prison, camp included, and “Tallahassee FCI” is FCI Tallahassee.

How do I find someone at FCI Marianna?

Start at the Bureau’s free public Inmate Locator, and search by the eight-digit register number if you have it, because the number is exact and names are not: the locator matches the committed name on the judgment, not a nickname or a married name. 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.

If nothing comes back, the usual reasons are state or county custody rather than federal, pretrial detention under the U.S. Marshals Service rather than a Bureau institution, or a spelling on the judgment that differs from the one in daily use. Our guide to how federal register numbers work explains how the number is built.

One Marianna-specific trap: if the locator shows a woman at Marianna FCI and staff tell you she is unavailable, she may be at FCI Tallahassee in the Special Housing Unit, because the camp has none of its own. The locator can lag a temporary transfer. Ask the camp’s unit team directly.

How do I write to someone at FCI Marianna?

Mail for someone at FCI Marianna goes to one of two post office boxes, one digit apart: P.O. Box 7007 for the institution and P.O. Box 7006 for the camp. The first line has to carry the committed name and the register number. Mail sent to the street address is not inmate mail and will not reach the person.

For someone at the institution	For someone at the satellite camp
Inmate Name & Register Number FCI Marianna Federal Correctional Institution P.O. Box 7007 Marianna, FL 32447	Inmate Name & Register Number FCI Marianna Federal Correctional Institution Satellite Camp P.O. Box 7006 Marianna, FL 32447

Note the ZIP codes: the street address is 32446, but both inmate mail boxes are 32447. The Bureau’s current facility page adds a “Satellite Camp” line to the camp block, which the 2014 handbook lacks; use the current version.

Ordinary letters are opened, searched for contraband and may be read. Legal mail is opened only in front of the person it is addressed to and is not read — but only if it is marked as the Bureau’s correspondence rules require: the attorney’s name and an indication that he or she is an attorney on the envelope, and “Special Mail – Open Only in the Presence of the Inmate” on the front. The handbook puts the burden on the incarcerated person: “[i]t is the responsibility of the inmate to advise his or her attorney about this policy.” An unmarked letter from a lawyer is opened as ordinary mail. Our guides to attorney-client communication in the Bureau of Prisons and writing to someone in federal prison cover the rest.

There is no mail service here on weekends or holidays, and first-class mail is delivered Monday to Friday by the evening watch officer in each unit. Packages sent without prior authorization go back to the local post office rather than being held. And one publications rule differs between the two sides of the fence: at the institution, softcover books and magazines may come “only from a publisher, from a book club, or from a bookstore”; at the camp, “from any source.”

Never enclose money in a letter, and never put anything else in the envelope with a money order: “[a]ny and all enclosures with the negotiable instruments (letters, pictures, etc.) will be discarded.” The photograph does not come back.

How do I send money to someone at FCI Marianna?

Money for someone at FCI Marianna goes to the Bureau’s national lockbox in Iowa or through one of two wire services, never to the prison. Each of the three routes wants the committed name and the eight-digit register number written on the instrument and on the envelope.

Route	Where it goes	Notes
Postal money order or cashier’s check	Federal Bureau of Prisons Committed Name Eight-Digit Register Number Post Office Box 474701 Des Moines, Iowa 50947-0001	U.S. postal money orders post without a hold; most other instruments carry an automatic hold. No cash, no personal checks
Western Union Quick Collect	Code city FBOP, DC	“Posted within 2-4 hours” if sent 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern, according to the Bureau’s Send Money page; the Trust Fund manual (2026) says two hours. Sent after 9:00 p.m., posted by 7:00 a.m. the next day
MoneyGram	Receive code 7932, company name Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC	Same posting times as Western Union

Our full guide to sending money to a federal prisoner compares every route and what each costs.

Before you send a large amount, know the ceiling on what it can be used for. Commissary spending is capped at $460 a month across the Bureau, and money beyond that sits in the account. Special purchase orders — the route for shoes, watches, radios and headphones — are separate: $300 a quarter under the 2014 handbook, $600 including markup and shipping under the Bureau’s trust fund rules, Program Statement 4500.13. They need a form approved through the unit manager and are closed to anyone in refusal status under the Financial Responsibility Program.

What are the visiting hours at FCI Marianna?

The Bureau publishes no current visiting hours for FCI Marianna. Its only published schedule, in the 2014 handbook, set visiting from 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. on weekends and federal holidays, with Mondays added at the institution.

Marianna’s facility page on bop.gov shows no visiting days or hours; its visiting panel holds two general links and nothing else. The Bureau’s generic visiting note says “These are typical visiting hours and may not cover all cases” and tells visitors to download the visiting policy from bop.gov. There is no such policy to download for this institution: most prisons publish a local visiting supplement, and none is published for Marianna.

The 2014 schedule appears in the Admission and Orientation handbook, and it is not current: it describes a prison evacuated four years after it was written.

What that handbook says: “Normally, regular visiting/processing hours at the FCI and the FPC are 8:15 a.m., to 3:15 p.m., on weekends and federal holidays. In an effort to minimize weekend overcrowding, the FCI has an additional visiting day on Mondays, 8:15 a.m., to 3:15 p.m.”

Call 850-526-2313 before you travel and ask whether Monday visiting still runs and what time zone the answer is in. Listings that give a 3:00 p.m. close, or that leave out federal holidays, do not match even the 2014 handbook.

Who can visit, and the ten-point month

The institution runs a points system and the camp does not. All of this is from the same 2014 handbook and carries the same caution.

• Points apply at the institution only. Each person gets ten points a month: a Saturday costs 2, a Sunday 3, a federal holiday 3, a Monday 1. A visit in the Special Housing Unit costs 3.
• Five visitors at a time at both the institution and the camp, children included in the five.
• Children under sixteen may not visit without a responsible adult, and every child must be on the approved list by name.
• The list goes to the counselor for approval after the paperwork and a criminal-history check. Ask for a new visitor at least a week before the intended visit.
• When the room is crowded, visits are terminated in order: local visitors first, out-of-state or infrequent visitors only after a minimum of two hours. Points are not restored when a visit is cut short.
• Visits begin and end in the visiting room. One brief kiss, one embrace and a handshake on arrival and departure, and nothing else.

Attorneys should make an appointment for each visit; attorney visits here “will be subject to visual monitoring, but not audio monitoring,” and legal material may go in with prior approval. No one else may carry legal material into or out of the visiting room — the unit team handles that. The Bureau’s visiting regulations and our guide to federal prison visitation cover the system-wide rules.

What visitors can wear and bring

The published dress rules bar see-through or sleeveless tops and dresses, skirts more than one inch above the knee, wrap-around skirts, spandex, shorts, caps and hats, easily-removed hairpieces or wigs unless medically approved, and logos that could give offense. Nothing may resemble what the prison issues: no plain white t-shirts, and nothing khaki, brown, camouflage or hunter green.

Identification is required and the handbook is specific about what does not count. A state driver’s license or state ID card works, or two other forms of identification carrying full names and signatures. “Birth Certificates or high school photo I.D.’s are not considered proper identification.” Persons without proper identification will not be permitted to visit.

You will pass a metal detector, and purses and briefcases may be searched. The handbook names what most often stops people at the door: “underwire bras, jewelry, hair pins, and other metal items may delay or prevent visitors from entering the institution should they not clear the metal detector.” Anyone with a metal implant or a pacemaker must bring a doctor’s note. See searches, shakedowns and contraband for how these rules are applied.

You may bring money for the vending machines and a reasonable amount of diapers and infant care items. No outside food or drink, and nothing may change hands: “Inmates are not allowed to receive either coins or money for their Commissary account while in the visiting room.”

Getting there, and the clock that changes

Marianna is on Central time. Tallahassee, 75 miles east, is on Eastern, and so is most of Florida — a trap for families who fly into Tallahassee and drive here. The clock moves back an hour crossing the Apalachicola River on the way here, and forward an hour going home. The federal boundary runs down the middle of that river from the Jim Woodruff Dam, under 49 C.F.R. § 71.5(f), and Marianna lies west of it; the Inspector General recorded the same thing when it timed its 2024 inspection: “MCC Chicago, FCC Pollock, and FCI Marianna are located within the Central Standard Time Zone.” Any time you are given over the telephone — a visiting hour, a callback, a transport — should be checked against the zone it is in.

The Bureau’s own roster record for this institution carries a time-zone field reading “E.” The regulation and the Inspector General’s report control, because the zone boundary is set by law. When you call, confirm the clock as well as the schedule.

The institution is on FCI Road, off State Road 166, past Florida Caverns State Park. From Interstate 10, take the Marianna exit for Route 71; go about four miles to Highway 90, turn left for about two miles, then turn right past the plaza onto Highway 71 North; follow it three to four miles to Highway 166 and turn left. About a mile along, an old railroad display on the right marks the entrance. From there it is a mile and a quarter in — the camp on the left, the institution straight ahead, visitor parking in the marked lot. From Panama City, take Highway 231 north to Highway 90 east, turn left at the Florida Caverns State Park sign and follow the signs past the caverns.

How do phone calls and email work at FCI Marianna?

Phone calls at FCI Marianna go out only, to numbers on the person’s approved list of up to thirty, and email runs on the Bureau’s TRULINCS system. Across the Bureau the allowance is 510 minutes a calendar month under the Bureau’s telephone regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, issued September 3, 2026: 300 free to anyone eligible for First Step Act telephone incentives, and 210 more that anyone who uses up those 300, eligible or not, may buy. A single call should generally not exceed 15 minutes.

Marianna’s 2014 handbook adds a local rule that shapes a family’s week: after a completed call it sets a fifteen-minute wait before the next one, and it lets credits be transferred seven days a week after 4:30 p.m. That wait predates the Bureau’s 2026 telephone policy, which sets a minimum of 30 minutes between completed calls. Three-way calling is prohibited and treated as a disciplinary matter, not a warning. Do not accept a call and connect it onward, however sympathetic the reason. See our guide to federal inmate phone calls.

Families reach TRULINCS from the outside through CorrLinks; our page on CorrLinks and TRULINCS explains the system and its costs. At Marianna the computers sit in the housing units and may be used only in the unit a person is assigned to, and a locked account is unlocked only on a written request to the Trust Fund Office.

Email with a lawyer is not privileged anywhere in the Bureau, including here. Privileged written communication has to travel as marked special mail.

What can people buy at the FCI Marianna commissary?

People at FCI Marianna can spend up to $460 a month at the commissary, the limit set by the Bureau’s trust fund rules, Program Statement 4500.13, issued May 7, 2026, which raised it from $360. The limit rises by $50 during the November and December holiday period, for no more than one validation period. Stamps, over-the-counter medications and vitamins, copy cards and copy paper, footwear including sneakers and safety shoes, mattresses, nicotine replacement lozenges and patches, and a secured media device are all excluded from the limit.

Marianna’s own published figures are older. The handbook says “Total monthly spending limit $320.00” with a bi-weekly validation limit of $160, and listings that give $360 with a $180 cap every two weeks are also out of date. Both are superseded.

The commissary list the Bureau publishes for Marianna dates from 2017 and predates the hurricane that emptied this prison. Read it for what is stocked, never for what anything costs.

What it does show is the dual-gender arrangement in miniature, because one sheet serves both prisons. Dozens of lines are flagged “(CAMP)” or “(CAMP ONLY)”: Midol, maxi pads with wings, bobby pins, lipstick, eyeliner and nail polish, a bathrobe, colored thread and yarn, bacon. A woman at the camp orders from the same sheet as a man at the institution, with a short annex of items only she can buy. Elsewhere on the sheet: insect repellent, reading glasses in eight strengths, and typewriter ribbons — which tells you something about how legal work still gets done here.

Shopping runs by unit on a rotating schedule, and the handbook gives the institution’s hours as 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday to Wednesday. The month begins on a personal validation date, worked out by a formula in the handbook: take the last digit of the first five digits of the register number, multiply by three, add one. Register number 01234-012 validates on the 13th. If money arrives on the 14th, it waits nearly a month to be spent. Our page on the federal prison commissary covers the national rules and what the money actually buys.

What programs are available at FCI Marianna?

FCI Marianna offers the Residential Drug Abuse Program at the institution, the non-residential sex offender treatment program, the Resolve trauma program, education and vocational training, and UNICOR work.

RDAP and drug treatment

The Residential Drug Abuse Program runs at the institution. The Bureau’s list of RDAP locations, in the August 2026 First Step Act guide, names “FCI Marianna (FL)” under the Southeast Region and does not name a camp here — where a camp runs its own RDAP the list says so, as it does for Cumberland, Leavenworth, Lewisburg, McKean, Edgefield and Texarkana. The 2014 handbook said the same thing: the residential program “is available for male inmates who volunteer to participate,” and participants live together in the Apache Unit for a nine-month course of group and individual therapy.

For a woman at the Marianna camp, that is a consequential fact. Completing RDAP can mean up to a year off a sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e) for people convicted of non-violent offenses, and the Southeast Region’s Female Integrated Treatment program, which includes an RDAP component, is at FCI Tallahassee rather than here. Nationally there are 57 RDAPs at 50 locations and five FIT programs at five locations. If RDAP matters to a sentence, the question to put to the unit team in writing is when a transfer request should be filed, not whether a class starts.

Below RDAP sit two other tiers. Drug Abuse Education here is a 12-to-15-hour course, mandatory for anyone whose judgment and commitment order requires treatment, whose presentence report says drugs or alcohol contributed to the offense, or who is in on a supervision violation involving either — refusing it, withdrawing or being expelled drops a person to the lowest institution pay grade. Non-residential counseling is voluntary and open to everyone.

The Resolve Program also runs here: the Bureau’s 80-hour cognitive behavioral program for trauma-related mental health needs, built on Seeking Safety, cognitive processing therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Marianna is approved to deliver it under the August 2026 guide, and the 2014 handbook records it as available to camp residents with a dedicated coordinator on the psychology staff.

Education, work, UNICOR and reentry

Academic programming runs from basic literacy through the high school equivalency, in English and Spanish, with English as a second language and college correspondence courses that the incarcerated person pays for and education staff must approve before materials are ordered. Everything else is free. Our guides to prison education and vocational training explain how these programs work across the system.

The vocational catalog is unusual in one respect. Alongside computer applications, electrical, heating and air conditioning and plumbing, the institution has run a course in “A+ Computer Refurbishing” — a descendant of the electronics recycling factory this prison ran for more than a decade, described below. Marianna’s vocational programs were certified through the Florida Department of Corrections and its apprenticeships registered with the Bureau of Apprenticeship Training. The camp’s catalog was narrower.

UNICOR operates here; listings that say Marianna has no UNICOR factory are out of date. The Bureau’s August 2026 First Step Act guide lists Federal Prison Industries as an approved program at MNA, and lists Marianna among ten institutions running FPI’s Lean Basic Training. The institution’s handbook describes four separate UNICOR waiting lists here, with priority for people who have worked for UNICOR before, people within 24 months of release, and people who owe $1,000 or more under the Financial Responsibility Program. Get on a list early; the factory manager is reached through the unit team by email. The Bureau’s published documents for Marianna do not say what the factory currently produces; ask the unit team.

There is an electronic law library, run under the Bureau’s national rules on inmate legal activities. The Bureau links that national policy from Marianna’s page rather than a local supplement, and local law library hours are not published. Religious Services is staffed by chaplains with contract and volunteer representatives and handles religious diets and holiday observances. Halfway house and home confinement placement follows the district a person releases to: RRM Orlando lists Florida’s Northern and Middle Districts, and RRM Miami lists the Middle District too.

One caution applies to every program named on this page. The Bureau’s August 2026 guide lists what each institution is approved to offer, and approval is not delivery: whether a class is running this quarter, and how long its waitlist is, changes constantly and is a question for the unit team, in writing, with the answer kept.

What is daily life like at FCI Marianna?

Daily life at FCI Marianna runs on the schedule in the 2014 handbook, which sets different clocks for the institution and the camp. This is the shape of the day as the Bureau last published it.

	At the institution	At the camp
Official counts	Midnight, 3:00 a.m., 5:00 a.m., 4:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.; a 10:00 a.m. stand-up count on weekends and holidays. The 4:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. counts are stand-up counts
Breakfast, weekdays	6:30–7:30 a.m.	6:00–7:00 a.m.
Lunch, weekdays	10:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	10:30–11:30 a.m.
Dinner	After the 4:00 p.m. count clears
Weekends and holidays	Coffee hour 7:00–8:00 a.m.; brunch after the 10:00 a.m. count clears; dinner after the 4:00 p.m. count
Uniform required	Full khaki, Monday to Friday, 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., shirts tucked in
Controlled movement	Every hour, for ten minutes, announced by staff	—
Lockdown	Cells locked 10:00 p.m., reopened 5:00 a.m.	Secure in cubicles, no movement, from 11:30 p.m.
Sick call	6:45–7:15 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, Wednesday triaged as needed. None on weekends or holidays
Recreation	6:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. and 4:30–8:30 p.m.; the yard opens at daylight and closes at dusk

Source: FCI/FPC Marianna Admission & Orientation Handbook (2014), the most recent edition the Bureau publishes. Schedules change; treat this as the shape of the day, not a guarantee.

Sick call runs in a thirty-minute window at the start of the day, and the handbook attaches an unusual penalty to getting it wrong: “Non-diabetic inmates found in the Medical Department prior to the beginning of ‘sick call’ will have disciplinary action taken against them,” and anyone late for a scheduled appointment “will not be seen and are subject to disciplinary action.” People in the Special Housing Unit get sick call every morning “without exception.”

Heat governs more of the day here than at most prisons, and the institution’s own rules show it. Sunbathing is banned outright, in any area at any time. The recreation yard has a shower, and the handbook is careful about what it is for: “The Recreation Yard shower is not authorized for bathing. It is to be used only to ‘cool off.’ No soap or shampoo is permitted.” Insect repellent is stocked on the commissary list. Hobby craft runs out of the recreation department, and finished work has to be mailed out at the maker’s own expense.

Hurricanes are part of the operating routine here, and the handbook says so: “During hurricanes, inmate movement will be limited for accountability and safety.” In thunderstorms, lightning or high winds everyone reports to a detail supervisor to be accounted for. Hurricane Michael, in the next section, shows why.

What Hurricane Michael did to FCI Marianna

Hurricane Michael damaged every building at FCI Marianna in October 2018, and the Bureau evacuated more than 1,200 people and kept the prison closed for well over a year. The storm made landfall on October 10, 2018, near Tyndall Air Force Base and Mexico Beach, about sixty miles south of here. The National Hurricane Center’s post-storm analysis, published in May 2019, put the landfall intensity at 140 knots — 160 miles an hour — and upgraded it to Category 5. It killed sixteen people directly and caused about $25 billion in damage.

The Bureau’s own account of the damage: “The physical damage at FCI Marianna was extensive. Most of the fencing was damaged and will need to be entirely replaced. Every building has roof damage; in some places the roof was completely destroyed.” No other Bureau facility near the storm’s path took major damage, and at least two thirds of Marianna’s staff had damage to their own homes.

Then the Bureau emptied it. “Staff from across the Southeast Region assisted with various aspects of supporting the evacuation operation of more than 1200 inmates from FCI Marianna. They re-designated the inmates, arranged transportation via bus or plane, safely and securely moved all of the inmates from an area with no power, on difficult road conditions with little to no outside assistance, all without a single injury or breach of security.” Some staff followed the population as far as FCC Yazoo City, Mississippi.

It stayed closed for years. In October 2019 Senator Marco Rubio wrote to the Director of the Bureau of Prisons after learning that the scheduled December reopening had slipped to August 2020; his letter described staff who “have been transferred to other locations, or are working temporary duty assignments out-of-state for weeks at a time.” The prison had employed about 300 people in a town of roughly 7,000. Repopulation was gradual: a Bureau release reproduced locally in June 2020 described an institution then housing 89 men.

It holds 1,124 people as of September 2026; listings that say the facility is not housing inmates are out of date.

Two things from that history still matter. The buildings standing today were repaired after a Category 5 storm, and the Inspector General’s 2024 inspection still found infrastructure problems in them. And Marianna’s staff spent those years on temporary duty at other institutions — which is where the most serious criminal case involving this prison’s staff was committed.

What do inspectors say about conditions at FCI Marianna?

Inspectors have examined FCI Marianna more closely than most prisons its size. The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General has conducted an unannounced, on-site inspection of this institution, which it has done at few. FCI Marianna was one of six institutions inspected simultaneously in the food-service round of June 2024, reported in June 2025, in a program that had reached fourteen institutions on the Inspector General’s own count in May 2026 (Report 26-055). Federal investigators were on these grounds earlier too, during the review of Federal Prison Industries’ electronic-waste recycling program: a Federal Occupational Health interim report on heat stress here in September 2007, and the review’s final site visit, by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, in February 2009. An independent auditor inspected the facility for three days in May 2026 under the Prison Rape Elimination Act. The District of Columbia’s Corrections Information Council, which inspects prisons holding DC residents, has never inspected Marianna.

The unannounced inspection of June 2024

At 10:00 a.m. Central on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, the Inspector General told FCI Marianna it would begin an inspection within the hour. A team of four arrived, simultaneously with five other teams at five other prisons, one in each Bureau region, and stayed until Thursday, June 6. The six were chosen on their scores from the Inspector General’s prison inspection risk assessment tool and on “the volume and nature of complaints submitted to the OIG regarding institution operations.” The report came out on June 17, 2025, as Evaluation and Inspections Report 25-062.

One finding reassures: “During our inspection, we did not identify any obvious indications that the food served to inmates was unsafe.” At FCI Tallahassee, by contrast, the same office had reported moldy bread and evidence of rodents in 2023.

Of the six institutions inspected, “USP McCreary and FCI Marianna had the greatest number of deficiencies.” Marianna’s were these.

• Knives and sharp tools untracked. Policy requires every knife to be tracked on a shadow board with a marker showing who has it; “[t]he required markers of two knives and five other sharp tools were absent from the shadow board at the time of our inspection.” The warden said they were replaced.
• The pallet x-ray had been broken for years. The machine that screens incoming food shipments for contraband had not worked “for at least 2 years prior to our inspection,” and as of May 2025 it was still broken. The food service administrator was personally receiving and inspecting deliveries because the foreman post was vacant. The Bureau’s position is that policy does not require the machines; the employee the Inspector General interviewed said inspections “would be more thorough if the institution’s pallet x-ray machine were operational.”
• Food service was short-staffed: fourteen of eighteen posts filled and only twelve people available, two on administrative leave pending disciplinary action. The warden said that when staff are overworked “a lot of things can be missed and go unnoticed.” By May 2025 the Bureau reported all eighteen filled.
• No cameras in the food warehouse — one of five of the six institutions with none inside a space the Inspector General described as large enough for misconduct to happen “without detection.”
• Four of eleven refrigerators read above the Bureau’s 41-degree limit — 54, 48, 47 and 43 degrees Fahrenheit. A refrigerator door and a freezer door would not fully close, and that freezer had ice building on the floor and on the food inside. The Bureau reported all refrigeration operational by April 2025.
• In the freezers, chicken wings with a use-by date of May 8, 2022, and roast beef dated November 6, 2023. The Inspector General noted that the Department of Agriculture treats a use-by date as a quality date rather than a safety date, and made no independent assessment of spoilage.
• A pallet of food stacked precariously; a warehouse receiving door that would not fully close; shoes on a kitchen surface; an apparently used hairnet on a drying rack in the dishwasher room. The Bureau repaired the door afterward.

Heat, and a record that runs back to 2007

The report’s most consequential finding concerns air conditioning: “we also found that FCI Marianna has no air-conditioning system and the ventilation system in the kitchen was broken at the time of our inspection.” The kitchen reached 93 degrees Fahrenheit while inspectors were standing in it. The warden said a motor for the exhaust fan was on order. The Bureau told the Inspector General the repair had been made by April 2025, and that in November 2024 Marianna “was approved to procure an air-conditioning system for its food service areas,” with a solicitation for bids still being drafted in May 2025.

That approval covers the food service areas only, and nothing in the public record says the housing units have air conditioning. The 93-degree reading was cited again in a separate Inspector General management advisory on October 2, 2025.

Heat problems here go back years. A September 2007 Federal Occupational Health interim report to the Inspector General “addressed heat stress conditions at FCI Marianna,” and evaluations here by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health “revealed exceedances of heat stress standards for certain UNICOR workers” at a time when “[t]he BOP and UNICOR did not have a heat stress program.”

What the recycling program left behind

The Bureau’s electronic-waste recycling industry began at this prison, and specifically at the women’s camp. The Inspector General’s October 2010 review traces it from mid-1997, when “approximately 15-20 female inmates began disassembling electronic equipment and computers at the prison camp at FCI Marianna full-time,” to 2008–09, when “Marianna was UNICOR’s largest e-waste factory, employing approximately 6 staff members, between 225 and 270 inmates, and receiving roughly 8 to 9 million pounds of e-waste each year.”

Successive wardens resisted the most hazardous part of the work. Breaking cathode-ray tubes releases lead. “Witnesses told us that successive Wardens at FCI Marianna had resisted glass breaking operations due to risks of birth defects in the female inmate population,” and in February 2004 the warden refused outright; by early 2005 UNICOR had “succeeded in persuading the FCI Marianna Warden to authorize glass breaking operations.” Staff and incarcerated workers then built the booth at the women’s camp themselves, without an engineer or an industrial hygienist and with no decontamination area, so that “[i]nmates stored respirators and ‘clean’ protective clothing in lockers adjacent to the glass breaking area.” At Marianna and Texarkana alone among the recycling factories, the Inspector General “found that no regulatory agencies had ever performed a compliance inspection.”

This is history rather than current condition, but it is the only detailed independent account of working conditions ever published about this institution. The vocational course in computer refurbishing is its direct descendant, and anyone who worked in that factory between 1997 and 2009 has an exposure history a federal report documents in detail.

The 2026 PREA audit

FCI Marianna was audited under the Prison Rape Elimination Act on May 5–7, 2026, by an independent auditor, Cynthia Swier of Corrections Consulting Services. The final report is dated May 27, 2026, and names John Gabby as warden.

The facility passed, and passed well: two standards exceeded, 43 met, none unmet, no corrective action. The two exceeded were the screening standards — 115.41, screening for risk of sexual victimization and abusiveness, and 115.42, use of that screening information to inform housing, bed, work, education and program assignments. For an institution whose mission is managing a population defined by sexual offending, those are the two standards that matter most.

The allegation figures put that result in context. In the twelve months before the audit the facility recorded 27 allegations of sexual abuse: 14 inmate-on-inmate and 13 staff-on-inmate. All 27 were investigated administratively and none criminally. Of the inmate-on-inmate allegations, three were substantiated, nine unsubstantiated and two still open; of the staff-on-inmate allegations, none was substantiated, nine were unsubstantiated and four remained open at the time of the audit. Ten further allegations of sexual harassment produced two substantiated findings.

On the cross-gender issue that arises from holding women and men on one site, the audit found compliance: male staff may not pat-search women absent exigent circumstances, and the facility reported no cross-gender searches in the preceding twelve months. The auditor heard the opposite-gender announcement being made and recorded individual showers with privacy curtains in every housing unit. Two provisions on communications with transgender inmates were excluded from the compliance determination under Executive Order 14168. Forensic examinations after a sexual assault are done at a local hospital, not on site. The audit also recorded that the video monitoring system had not been installed or updated in the previous twelve months — which reads differently alongside the Inspector General’s finding two years earlier of no cameras in the food warehouse.

Staff prosecutions, and one that is usually misplaced

The case most often attached to Marianna’s name happened at FCI Tallahassee. In July 2020 a Bureau correctional officer assigned to FCI Marianna was indicted for sexually assaulting an inmate. The Justice Department’s announcement is precise about where: he “is charged with sexually assaulting an inmate while on temporary duty at Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee,” and the conduct alleged occurred in November 2019 against a woman “under [his] custodial, supervisory, and disciplinary authority.” He pleaded guilty in October 2020 to two counts of sexual abuse of an inmate and was sentenced in August 2021 to 24 months in prison and five years of supervised release. Case indexes that go by a defendant’s duty station list it under Marianna, but the offense was committed at Tallahassee.

Two prosecutions did arise from conduct here. In June 2012 two Marianna correctional officers were indicted in the Northern District of Florida on bribery and contraband charges — one accused of smuggling synthetic cannabinoids, a cell phone and tobacco into the institution in 2011 for cash and stored-value cards, the other of bringing in cell phones, tobacco, a lighter and a music player. The U.S. Attorney’s announcement reports charges, not an outcome, for either case. And in December 2010 a former Bureau employee was sentenced to 27 months for conspiring to manipulate the sale of surplus equipment from the UNICOR factory here.

FCI Marianna in the news

Recent news about FCI Marianna centers on two deaths in custody in June 2026, the 2026 PREA audit and the Inspector General’s food-service findings; older items concern the Hurricane Michael evacuation and reopening and the 2012 indictments of two officers.

• June 2026 — in a release titled Death at FCI Marianna, the Bureau reported that Baldemar Cruz, 39, “was found unresponsive” at the institution on June 25, 2026, and, after life-saving measures, was “subsequently pronounced deceased by EMS personnel.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation was notified.
• June 2026 — in a release titled Death at FCI Marianna, the Bureau reported that Jason Hawthorne, 51, “was found unresponsive” at the institution on June 13, 2026, and, after life-saving measures, was “subsequently pronounced deceased by EMS personnel.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation was notified.
• May 2026 — an independent auditor inspected the facility under the Prison Rape Elimination Act: 43 standards met, two exceeded, none unmet.
• October 2025 — an Inspector General management advisory on conditions at FCI Terre Haute cited the 93-degree kitchen temperature recorded at Marianna as part of a pattern.
• June 2025 — the Inspector General published the results of the six concurrent food-service inspections, naming Marianna and USP McCreary as the institutions with the greatest number of deficiencies.
• June 2024 — Inspector General staff entered the institution unannounced and inspected food service over three days.
• 2019 to 2020 — reopening slipped from December 2019 to August 2020; Senator Marco Rubio wrote to the Bureau’s director in October 2019 asking for a timetable. Repopulation was gradual: 89 men in June 2020.
• October 2018 — Hurricane Michael made landfall as a Category 5 storm. Every building here suffered roof damage, most of the perimeter fencing had to be replaced, and more than 1,200 people were evacuated without injury.
• June 2012 — two correctional officers indicted on bribery and contraband charges over conduct at the institution in 2011.

Frequently asked questions about FCI Marianna

Problems at FCI Marianna: where we can help

The issues that recur here are the ones this institution’s own inspections, audits and handbooks keep pointing at. Raise them early, in writing, and keep copies.

• Correctional Management Plans. A restriction on property, mail, telephone or visiting at a Sex Offender Management Program institution comes from a psychologist’s assessment rather than a hearing, and carries no disciplinary appeal. It can be challenged through the administrative remedy program, which runs on deadlines at every rung. Ask for the plan in writing first.
• Transfer out of a SOMP institution. Being enrolled in the sex offender program, waiting for it, or awaiting a discharge evaluation affects whether a transfer closer to home can be considered at all. Our guide to federal prison transfers explains how designation and redesignation work.
• Women sent from the camp to the Tallahassee SHU. Moving to another institution’s segregation unit disrupts visiting, property, programming and mail at once, without a change of designation. SHU placements that outlast their justification and protective custody that becomes indefinite are both reviewable.
• RDAP for women at this camp. The Bureau’s RDAP locations list names the institution, not the camp, and the region’s female integrated treatment program runs at FCI Tallahassee. If the § 3621(e) year matters, the timing of a transfer request matters more than the timing of a class.
• Heat and medical care. A Florida panhandle prison the Inspector General describes as having no air-conditioning system, with sick call confined to a thirty-minute morning window and disciplinary consequences for arriving at the wrong time, produces predictable problems for people with cardiac, respiratory and psychiatric conditions and for anyone on medication affecting heat tolerance. See medical care in federal prison and, where negligence has caused injury, Federal Tort Claims Act claims.
• Occupational exposure. Anyone who worked in the electronic-waste recycling factory here or at the camp between 1997 and 2009 worked in an operation the Inspector General documented in detail, including a glass-breaking booth built with no industrial hygienist and no decontamination area.
• Disciplinary proceedings that threaten good conduct time; First Step Act time credits; halfway house and home confinement placement, which follows the district a person is releasing to; compassionate release under the Bureau’s reduction-in-sentence rules; and sentence computation errors. Each bears on early release from federal prison.
• 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. Christopher Zoukis, JD, MBA is the firm’s Managing Director and writes its federal prison policy material; he is not counsel of record, and legal representation is provided by Elizabeth Franklin-Best. Call (843) 620-1100 or contact us to talk through a specific situation.

Sources and currency

Bureau of Prisons documents

• FCI Marianna, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The Bureau’s facility page, with address, contacts, population, inmate sex, inmate-mail blocks and published documents.
• Death at FCI Marianna, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The death of Baldemar Cruz.
• Death at FCI Marianna, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The death of Jason Hawthorne.
• FCI Marianna Commissary Shopping List, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2017. Items stocked, including camp-only items.
• Inmate Admission and Orientation Handbook, FCI and FPC Marianna, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2014. Visiting, dress code, directions, mail, publications, commissary rules, telephone, counts, meals, recreation, sick call, education, UNICOR, and psychology and drug programs.
• Trust Fund/Deposit Fund Manual, Program Statement 4500.13, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The $460 commissary spending limit, the holiday increase, exclusions, special purchase orders and wire-transfer posting times.
• Inmate Telephone Regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The 510-minute monthly limit, call length and spacing; replaced Program Statement 5264.08 (2008).
• Sex Offender Programs, Program Statement 5324.10, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2013, as amended in 2025. SOMP structure, SOTP-NR hours and caseload, property restrictions, secondary mail monitoring and the institution supplement requirement.
• First Step Act Approved Programs Guide, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Reentry Services Division, 2026. Program availability by institution, including SOTP-NR, Resolve, Federal Prison Industries and the RDAP locations list.
• Community Ties: Send Money, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Western Union and MoneyGram posting times.
• Sex Offenders, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Program design and the residential program at USP Marion and FMC Devens.
• RRM Orlando, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Judicial districts served.
• RRM Miami, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Judicial districts served.
• Acting Director Visits Institutions Affected by Hurricane, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2018. Storm damage and the evacuation of more than 1,200 people.

Audits and inspections

• PREA Audit Report: FCI Marianna, Corrections Consulting Services, 2026. On-site audit of May 5–7, 2026, by Cynthia Swier; capacity, housing, staffing, custody levels, length of stay, allegation data and cross-gender findings.
• Inspection of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ U.S. Penitentiary Canaan, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2026. Report 26-055, with the Inspector General’s count of institutions inspected since 2023.
• Notification of Concerns Regarding Conditions at Federal Correctional Institution Terre Haute, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2025. Report 26-001; cites the kitchen temperature recorded at FCI Marianna.
• Concurrent Inspections of BOP Food Service Operations, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2025. Report 25-062: the unannounced inspection of June 4–6, 2024, and every finding reported from it.
• Inspection of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2023. Report 24-005: the Marianna camp has no SHU, and six of the 24 people in the Tallahassee SHU on May 23, 2023, came from Marianna.
• Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Management of Its Female Inmate Population, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2018. Report 18-05; names FPC Marianna among institutions housing women and men in buildings separated by fences.
• A Review of Federal Prison Industries’ Electronic-Waste Recycling Program, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2010. The factory at the Marianna camp, the glass-breaking booth, heat-stress exceedances and the absence of regulatory inspections.

Court records

• Former Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer Sentenced to 24 Months in Federal Prison for Sexually Abusing Inmates, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2021. The sentence of the former FCI Marianna officer whose offense was committed on temporary duty at FCI Tallahassee.
• Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer Indicted for Sexually Assaulting an Inmate, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Florida, 2020. The indictment of an FCI Marianna officer for an offense committed on temporary duty at FCI Tallahassee.
• Two Federal Correctional Officers Indicted for Bribery and Introduction of Contraband, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Florida, 2012. Charges arising from conduct at FCI Marianna in 2011.
• Former Bureau of Prisons Employee Sentenced for Fraud, Conflict of Interest, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2010. The 27-month sentence over the sale of surplus equipment from the UNICOR factory at Marianna.

News and other sources

• Rubio seeks answers on re-opening prison, Northwest Florida Daily News, 2019. By Tom McLaughlin. The reopening timetable, staff on temporary duty and local employment.
• Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Michael (AL142018), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Hurricane Center, 2019.
• Hurricane Michael upgraded to a Category 5 at time of U.S. landfall, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2019.
• 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e), Imprisonment of a convicted person, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 49 C.F.R. § 71.5(f), Boundary line between eastern and central zones, Code of Federal Regulations (Legal Information Institute).

Sources reviewed September 2026.

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