FMC Rochester: Federal Medical Center, Rochester MN

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

FMC Rochester at a glance

FMC Rochester is an administrative-security federal prison and hospital for men in Rochester, Minnesota, holding 827 people as of September 2026. It is one of seven Medical Referral Centers in the Bureau and the only one in Minnesota, and it takes men at every security level, because what puts someone here is a medical or psychiatric need rather than a security score.

Official name	Federal Medical Center, Rochester
BOP code	RCH
Security level	Administrative; men, at every security level
Population	827 (as of September 2026)
Visiting	Saturday, Sunday, Monday and federal holidays, 8:15 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Inmate mail	Inmate Name & Register Number · FMC Rochester · Federal Medical Center · P.O. Box 4000 · Rochester, MN 55903
Send money	Lockbox · Western Union (code city FBOP, DC) · MoneyGram (receive code 7932)
Phone	507-287-0674 · Fax 507-424-7600
Street address	2110 East Center Street, Rochester, MN 55904 · Olmsted County
Judicial district	Minnesota
BOP region	North Central
Housing	11 housing units
Medical care level	Level 4 · see care levels
Mental health care level	Level 4
RDAP	No
Camp	None

It has no camp and no satellite low. It stands two miles east of downtown Rochester on the grounds of the former Rochester State Hospital, in the Bureau’s North Central Region. It shares a small city with the Mayo Clinic, and federal contract records show the Bureau buying comprehensive medical services from Mayo month after month, by name.

Is FMC Rochester a hospital or a prison?

Both, and four different places get called "the Rochester facility." Only one of them is this one.

Place	Run by	How to find someone
FMC Rochester (this page)	Federal Bureau of Prisons	BOP Inmate Locator
Olmsted County Adult Detention Center	Olmsted County Sheriff — the county jail, at 101 4th Street SE downtown	Olmsted County jail roster
MCFP Springfield, Missouri	The other Bureau medical referral center in this region, routinely mixed up with Rochester	BOP Inmate Locator

Our guide to the federal prisons in Minnesota sets out the state’s federal roster. Minnesota’s state prison system runs eleven adult facilities and none is in Rochester. If the person was sentenced in a Minnesota state court, the federal locator will not find them.

Rochester State Hospital opened on January 1, 1879 as Minnesota’s second hospital for the insane, and most of what stands there today was built in the 1950s. The legislature closed it in June 1982; Olmsted County bought the campus for one dollar that December; and in May 1984 the county sold six buildings on 64 acres to the Bureau for $14 million. The institution took its first prisoners late that year and was dedicated in September 1985. An asylum campus converted into a federal prison hospital is why the place does not look, or work, like a prison built as one.

What is the security level at FMC Rochester?

Administrative, which in the Bureau’s vocabulary is not a level at all but a category for institutions that hold everyone. The Bureau’s own description of this facility is blunt: it "is classified as an administrative facility, in that inmates of all security levels (minimum, low, medium, high) are confined here; the majority, however, are low security offenders." A man with a high security score and a man who would otherwise be at a camp can share a corridor, because what put them both here is a medical or psychiatric need.

Because the institution is administrative, the Bureau does not apply a Management Variable to reconcile a person’s security score with it — Program Statement 5100.08 says "Administrative facilities are excluded from this requirement." A stay here therefore does nothing to a security score by itself, and when the medical reason ends, where the person goes next is decided on the score he always had. See security designation and custody classification and federal prison transfers.

How does someone get designated or transferred to FMC Rochester?

Not the way ordinary designations work. A move to a Federal Medical Center is a medical designation, and Program Statement 5100.08 puts it in one office: "Medical designations and transfers are approved by the Central Office Medical Designator, Office of Medical Designations and Transportation (OMDT)." The Designation and Sentence Computation Center in Grand Prairie, Texas, which handles everyone else, does not make this call, and "[o]nly the OMDT will make designations for study cases or for cases requiring medical or psychiatric evaluation or treatment."

The four care levels, and where Rochester sits

The Bureau’s patient care rules, Program Statement 6031.06 (2026), assign a care level to every person and, separately, to every institution. For a facility the assignment rests on "the clinical capabilities and resources of the institution and the surrounding community, as well as specific medical missions" — a sentence that does a lot of work in a city that contains the Mayo Clinic.

Level	What the policy says the institution is for
Care Level 1	People "generally healthy but may have limited medical problems"
Care Level 2	"Stable chronic conditions," largely self-managed, with infrequent specialist visits
Care Level 3	"More complex medical conditions," frequent clinical contact, periodic hospitalization
Care Level 4	"Care Level 4 institutions are the Bureau’s MRC." People here "may require extensive medical and nursing care," including 24-hour nursing and help with feeding, toileting and dressing

Rochester’s own handbook names what it is: "FMC Rochester is one of seven Medical Referral Centers (MRC) within the Federal Bureau of Prisons." The others are Butner, Carswell, Devens, Fort Worth, Lexington and Springfield; Carswell is the only one for women. The Bureau’s 2024 care-level chart, released under a Freedom of Information Act request, prints "3, 4" for Rochester in its table by region and places it under Care Level 4 alone in its table by level. See medical designations and care levels for how the inmate-side assignment is made.

Mental health runs on a separate four-point scale. Program Statement 5310.16 defines the top of it: "CARE4-MH: Inpatient Psychiatric Care. A mentally ill inmate may meet the criteria for CARE4-MH and require acute care in a psychiatric hospital if the inmate is gravely disabled and cannot function in general population in a CARE3-MH environment." Rochester runs an inpatient Mental Health Unit whose multidisciplinary teams carry roughly 25 to 30 patients each, and under the same policy every CARE4-MH patient is reviewed by the institution’s clinical care team "at least quarterly." If reviews are not happening, that obligation is the thing to point at.

The BP-770, and who actually signs it

The instrument is form BP-770, the Medical/Surgical and Psychiatric Referral Request, and Program Statement 5100.08 sets an order with no room in it for a family: "The HSA, with input from the Clinical Director and other providers involved with the inmate’s care … is responsible for completing the BP-770. The referring institution Warden must review the BP-770 and authorize the request for transfer." No box for the sentencing judge, none for defense counsel, none for a spouse. Everything an outside lawyer does is aimed at getting complete, current specialist documentation in front of the Clinical Director at the sending institution so that a 770 is written at all.

Three urgency levels exist and the difference is not cosmetic. An emergency transfer requires "immediate, direct transportation." A routine/urgent transfer must reach the medical center "typically within two to three weeks of designation," and "[h]oldover housing at a county jail or Bureau general population institution is not permissible." A routine transfer "may travel by any available means," which means months on the airlift. If someone is sitting in a county jail on the way here, the urgency level on the 770 decides whether that is allowed.

One provision is occasionally decisive. If a person objects in writing, or through counsel, to a transfer for psychiatric treatment, PS 5100.08 provides that "the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 4245 may apply," staff "will suspend transfer action in such cases," and Regional Counsel decides when it may resume. An objection is not a gesture: it converts an administrative transfer into a proceeding before a federal judge.

Getting out again, and the parent-facility rule

A medical designation is usually temporary, and one sentence governs the return trip: "Medical cases are normally returned to their parent facility unless the DSCC approves a change in the parent facility based on clinical justification provided prior to redesignation by the Medical Designator." The argument that Rochester should become the permanent institution has to be made before the redesignation, on clinical grounds, in the paperwork. Made afterward it is an ordinary transfer request competing with every other one. The return is initiated by Rochester on a Discharge Transfer Summary — by the clinicians treating him.

What medical and mental health care does FMC Rochester provide?

The Bureau states the mission in its own handbook: "to provide competent and appropriate medical, dental, and behavioral health care to inmates while protecting society by confining offenders in a humane, secure, and cost-effective environment." In buildings, that means three populations under one perimeter.

Unit	Who is there
Work Cadre Unit	General population, "usually from the Midwestern United States," assigned to jobs throughout the facility. This is Building 2 — the healthiest men, who do the laundry, cooking and maintenance
Mental Health Unit	"[I]npatient mental health evaluation and treatment to offenders with serious mental illnesses": schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder, with co-occurring cognitive, personality and substance use disorders
Medical/Surgical Unit	"[C]are to inmates for chronic or severe health conditions such as liver disease, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis" — and cancers, organ failures, brain injuries and neurocognitive disorders

The Nursing Care Center occupies units 9/2 and 9/3, where nursing staff administer every medication in single doses rather than sending men to a pill line. Building 9 holds the institution hospital, the dental clinic and the pharmacy window; Building 10 is ambulatory care. That geography decides how visiting works.

The 2023 PREA audit is the most detailed public census of who is here. On December 5, 2023 the institution held 580 men against a designed capacity of 830. Of those 580, 116 had a physical disability and 98 a cognitive or functional disability — between them more than a third of the population. Thirty-six were limited English proficient. The ages on the roster that day ran from 19 to 97. No other kind of federal prison produces numbers like those.

The Mayo Clinic question, answered from the contract record

The Bureau’s own brochure for this institution says that "many inmates are referred to us for medical care and consultation with the internationally renowned Mayo Clinic." The federal contract record shows what that looks like in money: the awarding office is recorded as "FMC ROCHESTER," the recipient is Mayo Clinic, and the purchase orders run month by month under the description "COMP MEDICAL" — comprehensive medical services — flagged "MISSION CRITICAL."

Fiscal year	Prime contract awards to Mayo Clinic	Obligated amount
FY 2024	103	$23.3 million
FY 2025	97	$26.1 million
FY 2026, to September 14, 2026	99	$37.8 million

Now the other half. Designation here does not entitle anyone to Mayo Clinic care, and no published Bureau document says it does. Outside care runs on a clinician’s referral and an escort, and it can be slow. A federal judge traced one man’s route through it in May 2026: abdominal pain reported on June 30, 2025 and recorded as most likely musculoskeletal; jaundice and dark urine on September 23; the Mayo Clinic emergency department on September 25; acute pancreatitis, an obstructed bile duct and gallbladder removal. The pathway is real. It is not a guarantee of speed.

How sick call works, and what it costs

Sick call triage runs Monday through Thursday, excluding holidays, and where a man signs up depends on where he lives: work cadre men at the 9-1 Ambulatory Care Department between 7:00 and 7:30 a.m., Building 10 men at the 10/1 nurse’s station in the same half hour, behavioral health patients at the Advanced Practicing Providers office. Arrive after 7:30 without an emergency and you are sent back the next sick call day. Over-the-counter medication is bought at commissary, and a man with no more than $6 in his account over the previous 30 days qualifies as indigent and requests it through his counselor instead.

The institution also runs a Health Care Directive process, and this is the part families miss. The handbook tells men to forward an existing advance directive to the Social Work Department for inclusion in the medical chart, and to request information about making one the same way. For a family whose relative is in the Nursing Care Center, that is the most useful sentence in the handbook. See medical care in federal prison.

Who is held at FMC Rochester under the federal commitment statutes?

A large part of what this institution does has nothing to do with serving a sentence. The Bureau’s own description of the Mental Health Unit population says so: "A large portion of our mental health patients were adjudicated not competent to proceed with trial or Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) and were civilly committed as dangerous due to a mental illness." Those men are held under chapter 313 of title 18, which runs on court orders, annual reports and clear-and-convincing evidence rather than release dates. Almost nothing else written about federal prison applies to them.

Competency and study cases: 18 U.S.C. 4241

If a court finds a defendant incompetent by a preponderance of the evidence, § 4241(d) requires it to commit him to the custody of the Attorney General, who "shall hospitalize the defendant for treatment in a suitable facility" for "a reasonable period of time, not to exceed four months," to determine whether there is a substantial probability he will become competent, then for a further reasonable period if the court finds that probability exists. Four months is a ceiling on the first stage, not a promise about the total — and if he does not improve, § 4241(d) routes him to §§ 4246 and 4248.

Rochester also takes study cases — people "committed for a period of study and observation." Those designations are made by the Central Office Medical Designator, who is told to place the person "in the most suitable facility compatible with the offender’s security and custody needs, closest to the court," and the statute agrees: "Unless impracticable, the psychiatric or psychological examination shall be conducted in the suitable facility closest to the court." That is why evaluations from courts in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa and Wisconsin land here. Section 4247(b) caps the examination at 30 days under §§ 4241, 4244 or 4245 and 45 days under §§ 4242, 4243, 4246 or 4248.

Involuntary treatment of a sentenced person: 18 U.S.C. 4245

This is the provision most people have never heard of, and the one the Bureau puts at the center of the Mental Health Unit’s Diagnostic and Observation Service. It applies when a man serving a sentence "objects either in writing or through his attorney to being transferred to a suitable facility for care or treatment." The objection does not end the matter; it changes who decides. A government attorney, at the request of the facility director, may move for a hearing in the district where that facility sits, and filing the motion "shall stay the transfer of the person pending completion of procedures contained in this section."

The government must then prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he "is presently suffering from a mental disease or defect for the treatment of which he is in need of custody for care or treatment in a suitable facility." Hospitalization continues "until he is no longer in need of such custody … or until the expiration of the sentence of imprisonment, whichever occurs earlier" — so a § 4245 commitment cannot outlast the sentence. Section 4247(d) guarantees counsel and the rights to testify, present evidence, subpoena witnesses and cross-examine. And on a § 4245 motion, "upon the request of the defendant an additional examiner may be selected by the defendant." An independent examiner chosen by the defense is available for the asking, and is very often not asked for.

Commitment after the sentence ends: 18 U.S.C. 4246

Section 4246 does what no other federal statute does: it keeps a person in custody after the sentence is over, indefinitely. It begins with a certificate. If the facility director certifies that a person whose sentence is about to expire — or who was committed under § 4241(d), or whose charges were dismissed solely because of his mental condition — "is presently suffering from a mental disease or defect as a result of which his release would create a substantial risk of bodily injury to another person or serious damage to property of another, and that suitable arrangements for State custody and care of the person are not available," the certificate goes to the district court where he is confined. For a man at Rochester that is the District of Minnesota, and the certificate "shall stay the release of the person."

The burden is clear and convincing evidence. If the court so finds, the Attorney General must first try to hand the person to a State: he "shall make all reasonable efforts to cause such a State to assume such responsibility." That promise is weaker than it reads. In United States v. Becerra, 73 F.4th 966 (8th Cir. 2023), the Eighth Circuit affirmed a § 4246 commitment and rejected a challenge to the certification, bound by United States v. Wigren, 641 F.3d 944, 946–47 (8th Cir. 2011), which held that the state-custody certification requires only "facial sufficiency," "need not be proved under the clear-and-convincing standard, and is not subject to judicial review at all." Becerra reviews the dangerousness finding for clear error and locates the required nexus between the mental condition and the dangerousness, not the offense of conviction.

How a committed person gets out

Three doors, and they are not equally used. The first is the facility’s own certificate that release "would no longer create a substantial risk." The second is conditional discharge under § 4246(e)(2) — release under "a prescribed regimen of medical, psychiatric, or psychological care or treatment" that the director certifies and the court finds appropriate, with compliance as an explicit condition. That is the realistic outcome in most cases, and it turns on whether somebody has built a regimen for the court to approve.

The third door does not need the Bureau’s cooperation at all. Under § 4247(h), "[r]egardless of whether the director of the facility … has filed a certificate," counsel or a legal guardian "may, at any time during such person’s commitment, file with the court that ordered the commitment a motion for a hearing to determine whether the person should be discharged" — subject to one limit: "no such motion may be filed within one hundred and eighty days of a court determination that the person should continue to be committed." Every 180 days, counsel can put the question back in front of a judge. Section 4247(g) preserves habeas corpus outright.

Meanwhile the paperwork arrives whether anyone reads it or not. Section 4247(e) requires semiannual reports under § 4241 and annual reports under §§ 4243 to 4248, "concerning the mental condition of the person and containing recommendations concerning the need for his continued commitment," filed with the committing court. At Rochester they are written on the unit: the Bureau’s internship brochure records that "[a]t least annually, a mental health evaluation or risk assessment report is submitted to the court," and that patients under §§ 4243 and 4246 are also seen by a risk assessment panel working from the HCR-20 violence risk instrument.

Where no one files, the reports arrive, the court reviews them on the papers, and the commitment continues. That is the whole mechanism.

How does FMC Rochester figure in a compassionate release motion?

It cuts both ways, and which way depends on facts a lawyer develops rather than assumes. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) a person may go to the sentencing court after exhausting administrative appeals or 30 days from the warden’s receipt of a request, whichever is earlier. The governing policy statement is USSG § 1B1.13, and the medical provision written for facts like these is § 1B1.13(b)(1)(C): "a medical condition that requires long-term or specialized medical care that is not being provided and without which the defendant is at risk of serious deterioration in health or death."

A federal judge broke that provision into its parts in a Rochester case decided on May 4, 2026, and the breakdown is the map for anyone writing one of these motions. "This provision of the policy statement encompasses three elements: (1) that defendant identify a medical condition requiring long-term or specialized care; (2) that such care is not being provided; and (3) that the lack of care risks the defendant’s health or death." The government did not seriously contest elements one and three; it contested only the second. That is what happens at a medical center the Bureau’s 2024 chart rates "3, 4" for medical care: no one disputes that the man is sick, and everyone disputes whether the care is happening.

The court granted the motion, and the reason was not the diagnosis. It was that the man, who speaks very limited English, "was not offered any language interpretation services" at his medical appointments — so his abdominal pain was recorded as musculoskeletal and went untreated for three months, and the surgery that followed was performed without an interpreter, leaving him "not entirely clear on what type of surgery was performed on him." United States v. Rubio-Perez, No. 11-cr-306 (D.D.C. May 4, 2026) (Howell, J.).

Two lessons travel to any Rochester case. A § 1B1.13(b)(1)(C) motion out of a medical center has to be built on dates: the named treatment, the date it was ordered, the date it was due, the date it happened or did not, and the clinical consequence of the gap. And the barrier to care does not have to be a missing specialist — here it was a missing interpreter, and the PREA audit recorded 36 limited-English-proficient men on a single day in December 2023.

Expect the argument in the other direction. A man at Rochester is already at the top of the Bureau’s care scale, and the government will say — correctly, as a matter of how the system is designed — that he is receiving specialized care by definition. The Bureau’s own route runs in parallel: the Bureau’s reduction-in-sentence rules, Program Statement 5050.51, issued September 3, 2026, which replaced 5050.50, set the medical criteria for a reduction-in-sentence request to the warden. Its terminal category covers "a terminal, incurable disease (i.e., a serious and advanced illness with an end-of-life trajectory)"; the eighteen-month life expectancy the old policy named no longer appears. The same policy reproduces the statutory clocks at 18 U.S.C. § 3582(d)(2)(A): on a terminal diagnosis the Bureau must notify the attorney, partner and family within 72 hours, give family an in-person visit within 7 days, and process a request within 14 days of receiving it. The first two clocks start once the institution’s Clinical Director makes the terminal diagnosis, not at any request. See federal compassionate release and the request to the warden and the 30-day clock.

Who are the notable inmates at FMC Rochester?

Published lists of this institution’s well-known prisoners are years out of date. Each entry below carries the register number in the Bureau’s records and what those records show.

Name	What the Bureau’s records show (September 2026)	Case
Jared Lee Loughner	Currently held here. Register number 15213-196; projected release recorded as LIFE	Pleaded guilty in the District of Arizona to the January 2011 Tucson shooting that killed six people and wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords
Lucas John Helder	Currently held here. Register number 36460-048; projected release recorded as UNKNOWN	The 2002 mailbox pipe-bomb case. Found incompetent to stand trial and held under the federal commitment statutes; a release date of UNKNOWN is what commitment rather than a sentence looks like in Bureau records
Raymon Everett Holmberg	Currently held here. Register number 84357-510; release January 8, 2033	North Dakota state senator for 45 years, sentenced in March 2025 to 10 years under 18 U.S.C. § 2423(b)
Louis "Bobby" Manna	Former — released from here on April 25, 2025 at 96	Genovese consigliere, 80-year sentence; news reports in April 2025 describe a judge granting compassionate release. Sources still placing him here are out of date
James A. Traficant Jr.	Former — released September 2, 2009	Ohio congressman expelled from the House in 2002; he later said he spent about three years here in a four-man room
John Dennis Hastert	Former — released August 16, 2017; Bureau records carry him under his committed name, John	Former Speaker of the House, here from June 2016 for a federal banking offense
Lyndon H. LaRouche	Former — released January 26, 1994	Presidential candidate convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud
Leonard Peltier	Former — transferred here in 2000, reportedly to be near the Mayo Clinic; now at RRM Minneapolis	Convicted of the 1975 killings of two FBI agents at Pine Ridge; sentence commuted to home confinement in January 2025

Louis Manna is not at Rochester and has not been since April 2025, although much published material still says he is. Jim Bakker and the Detroit Red Wings player Bob Probert both served time here around 1989 and 1990 — contemporaneous reporting in the Los Angeles Times and the Orlando Sentinel places them here together — but the locator records only a person’s last facility, so it says nothing about Rochester for either. Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "Blind Sheik," arrived on January 14, 1998 and was later moved to North Carolina; the locator returns no record for him today. A name’s absence from the locator is not proof the person was never here.

How do I find someone at FMC Rochester?

Use the Bureau’s free public Inmate Locator, and search by the eight-digit register number if you have it. If you are searching by name, search the committed name — the name on the judgment — not the name in the news. This institution is the best illustration in the system of why. "Ray Holmberg" returns nothing; "Raymon Holmberg" finds him. "Luke Helder" returns nothing; "Lucas Helder" finds him. "Dennis Hastert" returns nothing; his Bureau record is under John.

The locator shows the prison by its short name and type, and in this region the names matter: "Rochester FMC" is this institution, "Springfield MCFP" the medical center at Springfield, Missouri, "Sandstone FCI" is FCI Sandstone and "Duluth FPC" the Duluth satellite low, which the Bureau announced on July 1, 2026 would convert from a minimum-security camp. If the search finds no one, the usual reasons are state custody, pretrial detention with the U.S. Marshals Service, or a different spelling on the judgment. See how federal register numbers work.

How do I write to someone at FMC Rochester?

One post office box, with the committed name and register number on the first line. Mail without a register number is returned.

Personal and legal mail to a prisoner	Freight and non-USPS parcels
Inmate Name & Register Number FMC Rochester Federal Medical Center P.O. Box 4000 Rochester, MN 55903	Staff Name FMC Rochester Federal Medical Center Attn: Warehouse 2110 East Center Street Rochester, MN 55904

A warning about that box number. The institution’s own handbook and visiting supplement both print the return address as "PMB 4000, Rochester, Minnesota 55903-4000." The Bureau’s public facility page gives P.O. Box 4000. Use the Bureau’s version, and if you copied PMB from a handbook a relative sent you, change it.

Two local rules are unusual. Because Rochester is an administrative facility, men are not allowed to seal outgoing general correspondence — the unit officer screens and seals it. And incoming general correspondence must be in a white envelope: "Mail that is received in colored envelopes will be returned to the sender."

Legal mail is different, but only if it is marked. Incoming special mail must carry the attorney’s name, an indication that he or she is an attorney, and on the front the words "SPECIAL MAIL – OPEN ONLY IN THE PRESENCE OF THE INMATE." Unmarked, it is opened and read as ordinary mail, and the handbook puts the burden on the prisoner: "It is the responsibility of the inmate to advise his/her attorney of these requirements." Outgoing special mail is hand-delivered by the man himself to the mail room officer during open house, noon to 1:00 p.m. weekdays. See the Bureau’s correspondence regulations, our guide to writing to someone in federal prison and our page on attorney-client communication in the Bureau of Prisons.

How do I send money to someone at FMC Rochester?

Money never goes to the prison’s address. It goes to the Bureau’s national lockbox in Iowa, or through one of two wire services. All three routes need the committed name and the eight-digit register number.

Route	Where it goes	How fast it posts
Postal money order, U.S. Treasury check, state or local government check, business check	Federal Bureau of Prisons Committed Name Eight-Digit Register Number Post Office Box 474701 Des Moines, Iowa 50947-0001	Processed within 24 hours of collection; funds available by 2:00 p.m. local time the next day. Non-postal money orders and non-government checks carry a 15-day hold; foreign instruments, 45 days
Western Union Quick Collect	Code city FBOP, DC	Both wire services are run externally; confirm timing with them
MoneyGram Express Payment	Receive code 7932, company name Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC	As above

No cash. Enclose nothing with the instrument — not a letter, not a photograph: "[t]he National LockBox cannot forward any items enclosed with the negotiable instrument to the inmate." Your name and return address must be in the upper left corner, because that is the only way the money comes back if it cannot be posted. See sending money to a federal prisoner.

Before sending a large amount, know the ceiling. Commissary spending is capped at $460 a month, so money beyond that sits in the account. Two things drop the cap to $25: refusal status under the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program, and a warden-imposed commissary restriction. In April 2025 that second lever was pulled on an entire building here at once.

What are the visiting hours at FMC Rochester?

Saturday, Sunday, Monday and federal holidays, 8:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. That is from the institution’s own visiting supplement, RCH5267.09c, dated July 12, 2023, which replaced the September 2021 version. Three days a week, and one of them is a Monday — an arrangement almost no other federal prison uses, and the reason a weekday trip that would be wasted elsewhere is not wasted here.

Listings that give Friday visiting are out of date; the 2023 supplement does not provide for it. If you have planned a Friday visit on the strength of a directory site, call 507-287-0674 before you drive.

Two timing traps sit inside those hours. Visitors "will normally not be permitted entrance after 2:00 p.m.," so a visit that starts at 2:15 does not start; and on weekends and federal holidays they "will normally not be permitted entrance between 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. … until after the official institution count has cleared." Men in administrative detention or disciplinary segregation visit on Mondays only. The supplement is candid about a further limitation: "FMC Rochester is not able to provide a traditional area for non-contact visiting." Where a visit must be non-contact it runs over video conferencing.

Who can visit, and the 16-point system

• The visiting list holds up to 20 people, twice what many institutions allow. If change requests become excessive, staff may cap them at three in six months.
• Each man gets 16 visiting points a month. A Monday visit costs one point; a weekend or federal holiday visit costs two. Visiting on Mondays stretches the month.
• Attorney and pastoral visits are not counted against the points, and there is no limit on their number.
• Immediate family are not limited in number except when the room is crowded, when the cap is five at a time; the room holds 125 people inside and out.
• Immediate family named in the presentence report are ordinarily approved at once. Everyone else must have known the man before he was incarcerated, must return a Visitor Information Form (BP-A0629) directly to unit staff, and must mail in proof of the prior relationship. Only the warden can waive that rule.
• Anyone who is not immediate family gets an NCIC check first, and anyone on probation, parole or supervised release ordinarily needs written authorization from their supervising officer.

What visitors can wear and bring

The dress code is written against the uniform. Green, khaki or orange pants, shirts and skirts are out, as are gray sweatpants, sweatshirts and thermals; so are tight, transparent or spandex clothing, tank tops and sleeveless shirts, clothing with holes, wrap-around skirts, hats and caps, camouflage, plunging necklines, open-toed or open-heeled shoes for men and women alike, shorts and skirts above the knee when standing, and anything hooded. The Minnesota rule people get wrong: "Jackets, coats, or sweaters will only be allowed during the months of October 1 through June 1." Outside that window the coat stays in the lobby. Watches are prohibited outright — the rule that catches most visitors — along with wallets, purses, paperwork, food, drinks, reading material, writing instruments, tobacco, lighters and phones. You may bring one clear plastic 5-by-7-inch coin purse holding up to $20 in denominations of $5 or less, per adult, for the vending machines.

Identification, the ion scanner and screening

Photo identification is required for everyone 16 and over, and consular identification cards are expressly no longer accepted. Everyone passes the electronic metal detector and no one enters until they clear it; a visitor with a surgical implant should carry a Medical Implant Alert ID Card from a physician stating its location and type, and without one a visitor who regularly alarms the detector is pat searched instead. An ion spectrometry device is used at random as a condition of entry — it detects contact with a quantity of a controlled substance, a consideration if you have handled prescription medication or shared a car. See searches, shakedowns and contraband, the Bureau’s visiting regulations and our guide to federal prison visitation.

Visiting someone who is a hospital patient

This is the part of the supplement that exists nowhere else. Ambulatory patients go to the main visiting room; non-ambulatory patients who need staff assistance "will be escorted to the Building 10 visiting room via wheelchairs." Bedside visits in the institution hospital, Building 9, are arranged by the unit team after "[t]he primary physician, MDO, or nursing staff" is consulted, and the limits are tight: "[i]n most cases, a two-hour time limit will be imposed for hospital visits, and on only two consecutive days." Only children 16 and over may enter the hospital, and all hospital visiting is confined to single patient rooms.

If a man has been taken to a hospital in the community — in this city, usually the Mayo Clinic — the rules change again. Those visits "should generally be only for patients in serious or critical conditions," are authorized for two to five days at two hours a day, are limited to immediate family, and need written authorization from the Captain routed through the Associate Warden to the warden, with the Clinical Director consulted first. The detail that catches people out: "Visitors who will visit at community hospitals are required to report to the institution prior to visiting to ensure proper identification and screening is completed."

One more request, in a letter signed by the warden and attached to the supplement. If you or your children have a fever over 100 degrees, an infectious eye or skin disease, a cold or flu, diarrhea, nausea or vomiting, a strep infection, a new loss of taste or smell, or a recent known exposure to an infectious disease, the institution asks you to postpone. In a building full of immunocompromised men, that is not a formality.

Getting there

The institution is at 2110 East Center Street, about two miles east of downtown Rochester, and Rochester is roughly 85 miles south of the Twin Cities on Minnesota Highway 52. The institution’s own directions: take 4th Street SE east, pass Olmsted Community Hospital, and the Federal Medical Center is slightly to your left; turn left on Center Street and right into the lot marked Visitor Parking. People waiting for visitors may not remain in the parking lot while visiting is in progress.

How do phone calls and email work at FMC Rochester?

Calls are placed by the man inside; you cannot call in. Telephones here operate from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. daily, and men are restricted to the phones in their own living quarters. A voice recognition PIN and a Personal Access Code are both needed to place a call. A single call should generally not exceed 15 minutes, and the monthly allowance is 510 minutes 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, the remaining 210 purchasable — and everything except a properly arranged unmonitored legal call is recorded. See federal inmate phone calls.

The unmonitored legal call has a form and a threshold. The Request for Unmonitored Legal Call comes from the correctional counselor and "must include information explaining why correspondence, visiting, or normal telephone use is not adequate"; the man bears the expense. A designated telephone on each unit is set aside for monitored attorney calls, which are not privileged.

Email runs on TRULINCS, which families reach through CorrLinks, available here from 6:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Our guide to CorrLinks and TRULINCS covers what the system costs and how an account is opened. Men in special housing and in the Martin Wing have limited TRULINCS access and use paper forms, so messages that suddenly stop may mean a unit move rather than a refusal to write.

What can people buy at the FMC Rochester commissary?

The monthly spending limit is $460, set by the Bureau’s trust fund rules, Program Statement 4500.13, issued May 7, 2026, which records in its own summary of changes that it "[i]ncreases spending limit from $360 to $460 per month." It rises by a further $50 for the November–December holiday period. Rochester’s own 2021 handbook says "The National Monthly Spending Limit is $360." That figure is obsolete, and so is every directory page that copied it.

Several purchases do not count against the limit at all: postage stamps, over-the-counter medications, vitamins and mineral supplements, nicotine replacement products, copy cards and paper, footwear, mattresses and secured media devices. That exclusion list is why a man with chronic pain is not choosing between ibuprofen and food.

Commissary is typically open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and shopping days are assigned by register number. The order form is blunt: "You may shop only on your assigned Day. NO EXCEPTIONS." Nothing may be added or changed once the list reaches the checkout station. Deliveries are made to special housing, the Martin Wing and the non-ambulatory units 9/2 and 9/3, so men who cannot walk to commissary are not cut off from it.

The list itself is the clearest picture of this population the Bureau publishes. It stocks denture cups, denture toothpaste, denture brushes and upper and lower denture adhesive; reading glasses in six strengths; memory insoles, knee sleeves and elbow sleeves; wool gloves and a gray stocking cap; and a typewriter ribbon with correction tape. Denture adhesive and typewriter ribbons on the same sheet of paper say more about who lives here than any statistic on this page. The form is from 2017, so treat the item list as reliable and the prices as historical. See the federal prison commissary.

What programs are available at FMC Rochester?

Drug treatment: there is no RDAP here

There is no Residential Drug Abuse Program here. The handbook is explicit: "Inmates may apply and be screened for participation in the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), but the RDAP is not offered at FMC Rochester." A man who needs the up-to-twelve-month sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e) cannot earn it here; he must be transferred to an institution that runs the program, and the handbook says interviews ordinarily happen 42 to 24 months before release. That timing is a question for the unit team years before release. The Bureau’s RDAP rules and our guide to the Residential Drug Abuse Program explain how it works elsewhere. Rochester does run Drug Abuse Education and the Non-Residential Drug Abuse Program.

Education and vocational training

Literacy, GED and English-as-a-second-language classes run the usual way, with 240 mandatory instructional hours for anyone without a high school credential. The vocational offering is narrow and specific: "FMC Rochester offers a Landscape Management Vocational Training Program certified by Rochester Community and Technical College (RCTC)." One program, one local college partner, a real certificate. The library and electronic law library are in Building 4, with interlibrary loan, typewriters for preparing legal documents, notary services in Education and free duplication on written request for a man with no funds who can show a clear need. Men in every special housing unit have electronic law library access. The Bureau links its national legal activities program statement from this institution’s page rather than a local supplement, so the national rules are the local rules here. See prison education and vocational training.

First Step Act programs approved here

Most Evidence-Based Recidivism Reduction programs in the Bureau’s First Step Act Approved Programs Guide (2026) are marked "[m]ay be offered at all BOP institutions." Two matter here, and both are shaped by exactly who is here: one the guide marks as available at any institution, the other it limits to a named list of five that includes Rochester.

Program	What it is	Hours
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Late-Life Depression	"[A] structured, time-limited, three-phase treatment program for aging adults with depression or depressive symptoms," individual or group, delivered by Health Services	20
LifeSkills Laboratories	Built by Psychology Services "to help individuals with serious mental health illness practice life skills" — five modules at three levels each: health and hygiene, budgeting and shopping, manners and self-advocacy, cleaning and clothing care, and cooking	90

The guide lists programs approved to be offered. Whether a class is running this quarter, and whether there is a waiting list, is a separate question for the unit team — and it matters because First Step Act time credits are earned by participation, not eligibility. Rochester’s July 2021 handbook puts Release Preparation Program enrollment "no later than 30 months prior to the inmate’s release"; under the Bureau’s release preparation rules, Program Statement 5325.09, issued June 22, 2026, enrollment now comes "between 18 and 24 months prior to" the date a person leaves the institution. The same handbook schedules program reviews every 90 to 180 days, depending on the release date.

What is daily life like at FMC Rochester?

	Weekdays	Weekends and holidays
Breakfast, lunch, dinner	6:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 4:45 p.m.	7:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 4:45 p.m.
Work call	7:40 a.m.; work ends at the 3:30 p.m. yard recall, back in the unit by 3:40	—
Controlled movement	Ten-minute moves at 8:25, 9:25, 1:25 and 2:25	Ten-minute moves on the hour from 8:00 a.m.
Counts	12:15 a.m., 3:00 a.m., 5:00 a.m., 4:15 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., plus a 10:00 a.m. stand-up count on weekends and holidays
Telephones / TRULINCS	6:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. / 6:00 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Showers / lights out	Showers 6:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.; lights out 10:00 p.m. in dormitory areas, midnight in rooms. Specialized units differ for medical and mental health reasons

There are no washers or dryers in the housing units — they were removed on December 6, 2010, and washing or hanging clothes in a unit is prohibited. Laundry runs out of the Building 4 basement, 7:05 to 7:45 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; men in Building 9 and the Martin Unit put laundry in unit carts instead of carrying it. Meals follow the national menu with regular, heart-healthy and no-flesh options, and medical diets are handled by self-selection from the line unless a dietitian requires pre-plating — a detail that matters in a building full of renal, cardiac and diabetic patients.

What do inspectors say about conditions at FMC Rochester?

Almost nothing, and that is the most important fact about oversight here. The DOJ Office of the Inspector General has not conducted an on-site inspection of this facility. Where it has named this institution, it has done so as one site in a wider sample rather than as a subject. Its Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Medical Staffing Challenges (E&I Report 16-02, 2016) is explicit about how the work was done: "We visited five institutions via video teleconference." Rochester was one of the five, "representing all four healthcare levels," selected because of its proportion of Public Health Service staff. It also drew on Rochester in its June 2016 evaluation of reimbursement rates for outside medical care and its May 2025 evaluation of colorectal cancer screening, in each case as one facility among several. No inspector has walked these units. The OIG’s January 2003 review of drug interdiction did rank Rochester highest among administrative institutions for positive drug tests in fiscal 2001, at 7.61 percent; its later reports make no finding about conditions here. The District of Columbia’s Corrections Information Council has never inspected it either.

What does exist is an audit under the Prison Rape Elimination Act. Lynni O’Haver conducted the audit on site from December 5–7, 2023 and filed the final report on January 21, 2024. The facility passed: 41 standards met, none exceeded, none not met — and, in the audit’s own summary block, four not audited at the facility level. In the twelve months before the audit it recorded four allegations of sexual abuse, all inmate-on-inmate, and one of sexual harassment; none produced a criminal investigation. There were 414 staff who might have contact with prisoners, 50 contractors and 115 volunteers for 580 men. Forensic examinations are performed off site, and the institution has a memorandum of understanding with the Victim Services Sexual Assault Program of Olmsted County, 24-hour line 507-289-0636.

Two oversight channels here exist nowhere else in the federal prison system, and families almost never use them. The first is clinical accreditation: the Mental Health and Medical/Surgical units are accredited by the Joint Commission under its Behavioral Health, Nursing Care Center and Ambulatory Care standards, and the handbook publishes the complaint address — Office of Quality and Patient Safety, The Joint Commission, One Renaissance Boulevard, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois 60181, telephone 630-792-5800 — for concerns about quality and safety of care that cannot be resolved internally. The second is a disability grievance route: a prisoner who believes he is being discriminated against because of a disability may file an administrative complaint under 28 C.F.R. § 39.170 with the Bureau’s EEO Officer in Central Office, within 180 days of a Central Office response to an administrative remedy appeal, in addition to the ordinary administrative remedy program. In a prison where a third of the population has a disability, that is not a technicality.

FMC Rochester in the news

Recent news about FMC Rochester centers on the prosecution of a former nurse, reporting on a building-wide punishment and on a man who complained about it, and the arrival of a former state senator; older items concern a release granted in error and a compassionate release.

• January 2026 — a former nurse at the institution, Jessica Lynn Larson, was sentenced to six months in prison and a year of supervised release for making false statements. The Justice Department said she had a sexual relationship with a man held here in April 2024, then falsely accused him of assaulting her and of threatening her children; Bureau staff later found the letters they had exchanged. She was indicted in March 2025, and the DOJ Inspector General ran the investigation.
• November 2025 — the Post Bulletin reported that a man who had written to the paper and to Senator Amy Klobuchar about the April incident below was placed in the Special Housing Unit the same day the paper contacted the institution, spent 92 days there, and was then transferred out of state. The Bureau declined to answer questions, citing security and privacy.
• June 2025 — the Post Bulletin reported that after a handful of men laughed at the warden and staff during an emergency response on April 10, 2025, about 30 men were strip-searched and roughly 280 in Building 2 had their commissary spending cut to $25 a month, their exercise equipment restricted and their outside communication reduced. The restrictions were set out in an inmate bulletin of April 11 signed by Warden Jared Rardin: "I will not tolerate disrespectful behavior toward staff during emergency responses." The Bureau issued a general statement and did not address the specifics.
• June 2025 — Raymon "Ray" Holmberg, the former North Dakota state senator sentenced to ten years in March 2025, was transferred here.
• April 2025 — Louis "Bobby" Manna, then 96, was released from this institution after news reports that a federal judge granted him compassionate release.
• December 2024 — Leo Christopher Kelly, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, convicted on seven counts for his part in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack and sentenced by Judge Royce C. Lamberth in August 2023 to 30 months, was released from FMC Rochester on September 19, 2024, early. A Bureau official told the Rochester Post Bulletin that the Designation and Sentence Computation Center staff member reviewing the appellate order “misread the order as a final dismissal of the (obstruction) count and overlooked the Court of Appeals’ remand to the District Court for further proceedings.” Judge Lamberth resentenced him to time served on December 10, 2024.
• September 2022 and January 2023 — the Bureau posted two news releases reporting the deaths of people held at FMC Rochester; the Bureau’s releases are listed on its press release page.

Frequently asked questions about FMC Rochester

Problems at FMC Rochester: where we can help

The problems that come up at a medical center are the ones a referral queue creates: care that is ordered and does not happen, a care level that stops a transfer home, and a commitment under 18 U.S.C. § 4245 or § 4246 that outlasts the sentence underneath it. Each runs on a deadline that is easy to miss:

• Care that is ordered and not delivered. A written request to staff, then the administrative remedy process, with a clock on every rung. Where a disability is involved there is a second route under 28 C.F.R. § 39.170, and where negligence has caused injury a Federal Tort Claims Act claim under the Bureau’s tort claim procedures.
• Getting a medical designation made, or undone — the BP-770 is written by clinicians at the sending institution, and the argument that Rochester should be permanent must be made before the redesignation.
• Proceedings under 18 U.S.C. §§ 4241, 4245 and 4246, including the independent examiner a defendant may request, the 180-day motion for a discharge hearing, and the conditional-release regimen a court must be given before it can order one.
• Compassionate release and reduction-in-sentence requests, where the fight at a medical center charted at care levels 3 and 4 is over whether specialized care is actually being provided.
• First Step Act time credits and sentence computation errors under the Bureau’s computation manual.
• Disciplinary proceedings that threaten good conduct time, and SHU placements under the Bureau’s special housing rules that outlast their justification.
• Halfway house and home confinement planning, under the Bureau’s placement procedures, which runs through the reentry office for the district a man is released to; for Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota that office is RRM Minneapolis.

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. Calls are answered 24 hours a day. Call (843) 620-1100 or contact us to arrange a paid one-hour consultation about a specific situation. 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.

Sources and currency

Bureau of Prisons documents

• FMC Rochester, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The Bureau’s facility page, with address, contact details and population.
• Institution Supplement RCH5267.09c, Visiting Regulations, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FMC Rochester, 2023. Visiting days and hours, the 16-point system, visitor lists, dress code, screening, hospital and community-hospital visiting, and directions; replaced RCH5267.09b (2021).
• FMC Rochester Admission and Orientation Handbook, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FMC Rochester, 2021. Mission, units, movement and counts, mail, telephone, sick call, health care rights, advance directives, programs, commissary and the disability grievance route.
• FMC Rochester Pre-Doctoral Psychology Internship brochure, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FMC Rochester, 2018. History, the three units, the commitment populations, Mayo Clinic referrals, and the annual reports and risk assessment panel.
• FMC Rochester Commissary Order Form, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FMC Rochester, 2017. Stocked items; the prices are historical.
• Trust Fund/Deposit Fund Manual, Program Statement 4500.13, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The $460 spending limit, the holiday increase and the exclusion list.
• Inmate Security Designation and Custody Classification, Program Statement 5100.08, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Medical designations, the BP-770 and the parent-facility rule.
• Compassionate Release/Reduction in Sentence Procedures, Program Statement 5050.51, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Replaced Program Statement 5050.50 (2019).
• Inmate Telephone Regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Replaced Program Statement 5264.08 (2008).
• Treatment and Care of Inmates with Mental Illness, Program Statement 5310.16, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2025. The mental health care levels, including CARE4-MH.
• Release Preparation Program, Program Statement 5325.09, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Replaced Program Statement 5325.07 (2007).
• Patient Care, Program Statement 6031.06, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The four medical care levels and what each level of institution is for.
• Institution Care Levels for Medical Assignment and Institutional Mental Health Care Levels, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2024. Released under Freedom of Information Act request 2024-03455 and published by the Washington Lawyers’ Committee.
• First Step Act Approved Programs Guide, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Reentry Services Division, 2026. Programs by institution.
• RRM Minneapolis, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The reentry office for Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
• Federal Bureau of Prisons Announces Facility Closures and Operational Changes, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Press release.
• Press Releases, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2023. Includes the two releases reporting deaths at FMC Rochester.

Audits and inspections

• Evaluation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Colorectal Cancer Screening Practices for Inmates and Its Clinical Follow-up on Screenings, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2025. Report 25-057.
• PREA Facility Audit Report: FMC Rochester, PREA Auditors of America, LLC, 2024. On-site audit of December 5–7, 2023, by Lynni O’Haver; capacity, population, disability and allegation data.
• The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Reimbursement Rates for Outside Medical Care, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2016. Report 16-04.
• Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Medical Staffing Challenges, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2016. Report 16-02.
• The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Drug Interdiction Activities, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2003. Report I-2003-002; the fiscal 2001 rates of positive drug tests by institution.

Court records

• United States v. Rubio-Perez, No. 11-cr-306 (D.D.C.), U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2026. The three elements of USSG § 1B1.13(b)(1)(C) and the interpreter finding.
• United States v. Becerra, 73 F.4th 966 (8th Cir.), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2023.
• United States v. Wigren, 641 F.3d 944 (8th Cir.), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2011.
• Federal Prison Nurse Sentenced for False Statements Relating to Her Relationship with an Inmate, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota, 2026. Jessica Lynn Larson’s sentence.
• Federal Prison Nurse Indicted for Abusive Sexual Conduct with an Inmate, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota, 2025. Jessica Lynn Larson’s indictment.
• Former North Dakota State Senator Sentenced to 10 Years’ Imprisonment for Traveling to Prague to Engage in Commercial Sex with Children, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, 2025. Raymon Holmberg’s sentence.

News and other sources

• Former FMC Inmate Claims He Was Punished for Contacting Media, Rochester Post Bulletin, 2025. By Jeff Kiger.
• FMC Inmates Say Punishments Are No Laughing Matter, Rochester Post Bulletin, 2025. By Jeff Kiger.
• Mobsters, Terrorists, Disgraced Politicians, and Televangelists: The Famous and Infamous Who Have Been Imprisoned at Rochester’s Federal Medical Center, Rochester Post Bulletin, 2021. By Matthew Stolle.
• Probert Will Join Bakker in Minnesota Prison, Los Angeles Times, 1989.
• 90 Days in the Hole, Orlando Sentinel, 1989.
• Rochester State Hospital, Minnesota Historical Society (MNopedia), 2026.
• USAspending.gov prime contract awards, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 2026. Awards to Mayo Clinic from the Federal Prison System; the site returns them only to a search, not to a fixed address.
• 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), (d)(2)(A), Imposition of a sentence of imprisonment, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e), Imprisonment of a convicted person, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 18 U.S.C. § 4241, Determination of mental competency to stand trial or to undergo postrelease proceedings, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 18 U.S.C. § 4245, Hospitalization of an imprisoned person suffering from mental disease or defect, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 18 U.S.C. § 4246, Hospitalization of a person due for release but suffering from mental disease or defect, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 18 U.S.C. § 4247, General provisions for chapter 313, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 28 C.F.R. § 39.170, Compliance procedures, Code of Federal Regulations (Legal Information Institute).
• U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 1B1.13(b)(1)(C), Reduction in Term of Imprisonment Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2025.

Sources reviewed September 2026.

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