FMC Fort Worth: Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth TX

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

FMC Fort Worth at a glance

FMC Fort Worth is an administrative-security federal prison hospital for men at 3150 Horton Road in southeast Fort Worth, Texas, holding 1,567 people as of September 2026. It is one of seven medical referral centers the Bureau of Prisons operates, and the only one of the seven with a federal detention center on the same grounds.

Official name	Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth
BOP code	FTW
Security level	Administrative; men
Population	1,567 (as of September 2026)
Visiting	Saturday, Sunday, Monday and federal holidays, 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. · see visiting hours by unit
Inmate mail	Inmate Name & Register Number, Unit · Federal Medical Center · P.O. Box 15330 · Fort Worth, TX 76119
Send money	Lockbox · Western Union (code city FBOP, DC) · MoneyGram (receive code 7932)
Phone	817-534-8400 · Fax 817-413-3350
Street address	3150 Horton Road, Fort Worth, TX 76119 · Tarrant County · see getting there
Judicial district	Northern District of Texas
BOP region	South Central
Housing	Five general population units, one nursing care unit (Lubbock), a Jail Unit (federal detention center) and a Special Housing Unit
Medical care level	See the four care levels
Mental health care level	Level 3
RDAP	Yes
Camp	None · no satellite low

A man awaiting trial and a man on a nursing ward are therefore held inside the same fence, under different visiting rules. The institution is one of the federal prisons in Texas, sits in Tarrant County in the Bureau’s South Central Region, and serves the Northern District of Texas. People arrive from every judicial district in the country, because a medical designation follows a clinical need rather than a home address.

There are two federal medical centers in Fort Worth

Fort Worth, Texas, has two Bureau of Prisons medical centers, on opposite sides of the city, and they are not interchangeable.

	FMC Fort Worth (this page)	FMC Carswell
Who is held there	Men	Women
Address	3150 Horton Road, Fort Worth, TX 76119	Naval Air Station, Fort Worth, TX 76114
Phone	817-534-8400	817-782-4000
Population	1,567	1,271
Camp	None	Yes
Detention center on site	Yes	No

Populations as of September 2026.

Three widely repeated staff prosecutions attributed to this prison happened at Carswell, according to the Justice Department’s own releases: a 2008 chaplain sentencing at “Federal Medical Center (FMC) Carswell in Fort Worth”; a 2016 guilty plea by a cook “assigned to Carswell Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Fort Worth, Texas”; and a 2017 case-manager sentencing at “Carswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas.” All three involved women prisoners.

Federal documents call the institution both FCI Fort Worth and FMC Fort Worth, sometimes in the same year. A judge of the Northern District of Texas put the change on the record in a 2019 opinion, noting that “the Fort Worth facility was designated as Federal Correctional Institute-Fort Worth” but “in 2017 was re-designated as Federal Medical Center-Fort Worth.” Everything else lagged: the Department’s February 2018 budget submission still listed “FCI Fort Worth,” and so does the address block of the institution’s own May 2024 visiting supplement. The Bureau did announce it, in a news story dated December 7, 2016, “FCI Ft. Worth Becomes a Federal Medical Center,” which says the institution “is becoming the seventh Federal Medical Center”; later federal documents did not follow consistently, which is why no two sources agree.

What is the security level at FMC Fort Worth?

FMC Fort Worth’s security level is administrative, which is not a point on the low-medium-high scale but a category for institutions with a special mission that take people from across it. The Inspector General wrote in its December 2020 report that the institution “houses offenders classified at all security levels (minimum, low, medium, and high) who have special medical and mental health needs,” and the 2024 PREA audit records its custody levels as Administrative and Low.

What that means in practice is decided by the buildings. The Inspector General’s report records that, apart from the Jail Unit and the Special Housing Unit, “all housing units at FMC Fort Worth are open: they have cells without doors, and bathrooms are communal” — “meaning that 1,300 of FMC Fort Worth’s approximately 1,500 inmates were housed in open units.”

How does someone get sent to FMC Fort Worth?

People are sent to FMC Fort Worth through a medical redesignation, which has a different decision-maker from the one that produced the original designation. A clinician at the sending institution writes the referral, a single office in Washington decides it, and neither the family, the sentencing judge nor defense counsel has a step in the sequence. Fort Worth also receives pretrial and holdover detainees into its Jail Unit, and takes men into the residential drug program described below.

The four care levels, and where Fort Worth sits

The Bureau’s patient care policy, Program Statement 6031.06 (2026), grades institutions on four levels by “an analysis of the physical plant, community-based resources, local labor market, and impact on other correctional programs.” Level 4 is the top of that scale: “Care Level 4 institutions are the Bureau’s MRC,” holding people who “may require extensive medical and nursing care,” including 24-hour nursing and help with feeding, toileting and dressing.

The Bureau’s 2024 care-level chart prints Fort Worth’s medical level as “3,4” in its table by region but lists Fort Worth under Care Level 3 alone in its table by level. The undated mental-health chart released with it rates both Fort Worth rows, general population and “MEDIC,” at Care Level 3. Earlier records differ: the Inspector General recorded Fort Worth in December 2020 as “a Care Level 4 institution,” and an Inspector General audit published in February 2008 listed “Fort Worth FCI” as a Care Level 3 institution holding 1,754 people.

The same policy sets a clock you can check: “Medical Care Level 4 inmates. Must be seen by an APP or physician for CCC follow-up every three months, or more often as clinically indicated”; Level 3 patients, every six months. The clock follows the patient, not the building. See medical designations and care levels and how care levels work.

The BP-A0770, and who signs it

The instrument is form BP-A0770, the Medical/Surgical and Psychiatric Referral Request. Under the Bureau’s designation and classification rules, Program Statement 5100.08, it passes through three hands: the Health Services Administrator who writes it “with input from the Clinical Director,” the sending warden who must authorize it, and the Central Office Medical Designator, who decides. The Designation and Sentence Computation Center at Grand Prairie, which handles ordinary designations for the whole system from the same metropolitan area, does not decide this one.

No one outside the Bureau can file a 770. What outside help can do is put complete, current specialist documentation in front of the Clinical Director where the person is now, because the form is written there or not at all. The transfer must then reach the medical center “typically within two to three weeks of designation,” and the policy forecloses the obvious shortcut: “[h]oldover housing at a county jail or Bureau general population institution is not permissible.”

There is one way to stop a 770 from the outside, and it is narrow. Where the referral is for psychiatric or mental health treatment and the patient objects — in writing, or through counsel — Program Statement 5100.08 directs staff to suspend the transfer, send the matter to Regional Counsel, and treat “the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 4245” as potentially in play. Filed before the bus, an objection halts it. Filed after, there is nothing left to halt.

Getting back: the parent-facility rule

A medical designation is presumptively a loan. Program Statement 5100.08 returns “[m]edical cases… to their parent facility unless the DSCC approves a change in the parent facility based on clinical justification provided prior to redesignation.” Three words do the work: prior to redesignation. Raised afterward, the same argument is an ordinary transfer request in an ordinary queue. See federal prison transfers.

The Lubbock Unit and the long-term care mission

Fort Worth’s units are named after Texas cities — Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Lubbock, plus the Jail — and one of those names carries the institution’s real mission. The Lubbock Unit is the long-term care unit, which the Inspector General calls the Nursing Care Center Unit and counts separately from the five general population units.

The clearest public statement of who gets onto that ward is the Bureau’s own recruiting profile on the federal Health Workforce Connector: “The only BOP Long Term Care unit: FCI Fort Worth has a 40 bed unit for long term care (LTC) inmates. Inmates requiring LTC will meet the following criteria: Post CVA, falls, requiring 24-hour nursing care, terminal/hospice care, 24-hour pain management, need for isolation, medically unstable patients, or inmates requiring IV medication.” Treat it carefully — it is recruiting copy, the Health Resources and Services Administration says it does not verify what employers post, and it still uses the old name. But if you are arguing for a transfer, those criteria are the list to argue against.

What medical care does FMC Fort Worth provide?

FMC Fort Worth provides around-the-clock on-site care, an inpatient nursing unit, a pharmacy and dentistry, and uses hospitals in the city for what the institution cannot do itself. “On-site medical care is available 7 days a week,” says the handbook, and every man is assigned a primary care provider: “You do not have the choice as to what provider is/is not assigned to you.” The Bureau’s service list for this institution names geriatrics, oncology, pain management, comprehensive eye care, HIV care and medication-assisted treatment.

The Inspector General recorded that the institution “has arrangements with three local hospitals,” that ten to fifteen men are in a hospital bed at any time in normal operations, and that policy requires “teams of two Correctional Officers for each inmate receiving care in a hospital.” The court record names John Peter Smith Hospital and Kindred Hospital.

Sick call, pill line and the two-dollar copay

Triage runs “Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. in Health Services,” and the handbook is explicit about the gaps: “Triage (sick call) will not be held on Wednesdays, weekends, and federal holidays.” Outside that half-hour the route is the Unit Officer.

	Weekdays	Weekends and holidays
Sick call (triage)	Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, 7:00–7:30 a.m.	None
Pill line, morning	7:00–7:30 a.m.	8:00–8:30 a.m.
Pill line, afternoon and night	3:00–3:30 p.m. and 8:00–8:30 p.m., daily
Insulin line, morning	6:00–7:00 a.m.	7:00–8:00 a.m.
Insulin line, rest of day	11:00–11:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m. (or after the 4:00 p.m. count clears), and 8:00–8:30 p.m.
Pharmacy	New prescriptions 2:00–3:00 p.m.; refills 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.	—

Source: FMC Fort Worth Admission & Orientation Handbook (2018). The entry physical happens “within fourteen (14) days of admission” and “is mandatory and cannot be refused.” Treat these times as the shape of the day and confirm them with the unit team.

One copay rule is local. The $2.00 fee for a self-requested visit, set by 28 C.F.R. § 549.70(b) under 18 U.S.C. § 4048, applies here “with the exception of Long Term Care Inmates housed in Lubbock Unit” — the ward is the dividing line, and a man in general population is billed. No one is charged who has gone thirty days without $6.00 in his trust account, and no one is refused care for being unable to pay. See medical care in federal prison.

Two warnings from the handbook itself. “Psychology Services e-mail is not monitored on a daily basis, so urgent requests should be made in person to a staff member rather than via an e-mail.” And “[r]epair of personal medical equipment, including wheelchairs, will not be done at government expense. If necessary items become inoperable, replacements will be provided” — a privately owned chair that breaks is replaced with an institution chair, not fixed.

Advance directives and DNR orders under Texas law

Where a man is housed decides whether his own end-of-life instructions mean anything. A living will executed before the sentence began does nothing at an ordinary institution: under Program Statement 6031.06 a do-not-resuscitate order “will only be invoked and honored when an inmate is housed at a Care Level 4 facility (i.e., MRCs) or Care Level 3 facilities having a long-term care or inpatient mission approved by the Medical Director.”

The handbook names the form — “Each inmate may obtain and fill out an Advance Directive for Health Care for the State of Texas” — and directives “may only be implemented at community health care facilities, medical referral centers, or inmates housed in the Long Term Care Unit.” The proxy “cannot be another inmate or a staff member.” Get an executed Texas directive to the social work department on arrival, not after a crisis.

Does being at an FMC help or hurt a compassionate release motion?

Being at an FMC both helps and hurts a compassionate release motion, and this institution’s record shows how. The door to the sentencing court under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) opens on whichever comes first, a completed set of administrative appeals or thirty days from the warden’s receipt of the request. The governing policy statement is USSG § 1B1.13, and the subsection written for a hospital population 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.”

The government’s answer at a medical center writes itself, and it is not a bad one: this man is in a building with a pharmacy, a nursing ward, arrangements with three hospitals and a chronic-care clock set by policy. What defeats it is a chronology — the named treatment, the date it was ordered, the date it was due under the Bureau’s own standard, the date it happened or did not, and what the gap cost clinically.

The best-known example from this institution is Bernard Ebbers, the former WorldCom chief executive, who petitioned the Bureau from here listing “(1) macular degeneration; (2) cardiomyopathy; (3) diabetes; (4) inguinal hernia; and (5) significant weight loss.” The Bureau turned him down: “The BOP denied the petition in August 2019, determining that Ebbers did not qualify under BOP guidelines.” He went to his sentencing judge, and in December 2019 the Southern District of New York granted the motion after oral argument. United States v. Ebbers, No. S4 02-CR-1144-3 (VEC) (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 8, 2020). Bureau records show him released on December 21, 2019; he died in February 2020.

During the worst coronavirus outbreak in the federal system, the Inspector General found that Central Office and the South Central Regional Office sent Fort Worth three rosters naming 241 people potentially eligible for home confinement between April 3 and May 18, 2020, and that four weeks after the first roster arrived the institution “had transferred 8 inmates to home confinement and had released 1 inmate under the compassionate release authority.” The report’s footnote on those releases adds: “There were three compassionate release cases, which FMC Fort Worth staff told us were granted by judges after those inmates filed compassionate release requests with the courts.”

Twelve men died here of COVID-19 in 2020. Three were released early on this ground, and a court granted every one of them. Run both routes in parallel — the request to the warden under the Bureau’s reduction-in-sentence rules, Program Statement 5050.51, which replaced 5050.50 in September 2026, and the motion to the sentencing court — and expect the second to be the one that moves. See federal compassionate release, and on the warden’s thirty days, exhaustion before the motion.

Who are the notable inmates at FMC Fort Worth?

Two men currently held at FMC Fort Worth are widely written about, Nicholas Roske and Jacques Roy, and a longer list of people are named here on directory sites.

Name	Status	Case
Nicholas Roske	Currently held here, register 05098-510; projected release April 28, 2029	Pleaded guilty in April 2025 to attempting to murder a United States Supreme Court Justice; sentenced on October 3, 2025 to 97 months and lifetime supervised release. The Justice Department had asked for at least thirty years and said it would appeal
Jacques Roy	Currently held here, register 44132-177; projected release December 25, 2040	Dallas physician sentenced on August 9, 2017 by Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 420 months for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, eight counts of health care fraud, false statements and obstruction of justice, with restitution of $268,147,699.15
Bernard Ebbers	Former — released December 21, 2019 on a compassionate release motion granted by his sentencing court	Former chief executive of WorldCom, convicted in 2005 in the Southern District of New York
Phillip Ballard	Former — held here awaiting trial. Bureau records place him at FMC Devens on release, March 5, 2026	Convicted of solicitation to commit the murder of United States District Judge John McBryde under 18 U.S.C. § 373, affirmed at 599 F. App’x 199 (5th Cir. 2015)

Other sources place the people below at FMC Fort Worth; the Bureau’s records place them elsewhere.

Named as being here	Where the Bureau’s locator places them
Joseph Maldonado-Passage (“Joe Exotic”), 26154-017	FMC Lexington, Kentucky; projected release April 28, 2036
Joshua Duggar, 42501-509	FCI Elkton, Ohio; projected release February 2, 2033
Eric Kay, 04401-509	FCI Englewood, Colorado; projected release February 18, 2041
Chris Kirchner, 44239-510	FCI Leavenworth, Kansas; projected release June 17, 2040
Marie Mason, 04672-061	Residential Reentry Management, Detroit; projected release May 12, 2027
Vincent Gigante, 26071-037	Died in custody at MCFP Springfield, Missouri, on December 19, 2005 (the locator shows “Deceased: 12/19/2005”)

How do I find someone at FMC Fort Worth?

Find someone at FMC Fort Worth with the Bureau’s free Inmate Locator. 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, which is often not the name the family uses.

Two results confuse people here. The locator shows the facility’s name and type, and Fort Worth has two: “Fort Worth FMC” is this prison, “Carswell FMC” the other. And because this institution holds pretrial and holdover detainees, someone may appear here briefly and be gone before a letter arrives. If the locator shows nothing at all, the usual reasons are state custody, pretrial detention under the U.S. Marshals Service, or a differently spelled committed name. See how federal register numbers work.

How do I write to someone at FMC Fort Worth?

Letters to someone at FMC Fort Worth go to a post office box, not to Horton Road. The handbook is categorical: “Any inmate postal mail received at an address other than the address listed below will be returned to sender.”

Inmate mail	Inmate Name & Register Number, Unit Federal Medical Center P.O. Box 15330 Fort Worth, TX 76119

The institution’s handbook puts the housing unit on the first line, after the name and number; the Bureau’s web listing omits it. Include it. There are seven units here and mail that names one moves faster than mail that does not.

Ordinary letters are opened, inspected and may be read. Legal mail is protected only if the sender is clearly identified and the front of the envelope carries the marking the handbook prints: “Legal Mail – To be Opened Only in the Presence of the Addressee.” See the Bureau’s correspondence rules, attorney-client communication in the Bureau of Prisons and writing to someone in federal prison.

Three local rules are easy to trip over. Outgoing general mail stays unsealed and “must have a TRULINCS-generated label,” or it comes back for re-preparation. Special and legal mail is handed to mail room staff in a thirty-minute window, “between 7:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. Monday through Friday (excluding holidays).” And writing to another incarcerated person, including a family member or codefendant, needs written approval first — approval granted at a previous institution does not travel.

How do I send money to someone at FMC Fort Worth?

Money for someone at FMC Fort Worth does not go to Fort Worth at all. Deposits are handled centrally, by a lockbox in Des Moines or by one of two wire services, and all three routes fail without the committed name and the eight-digit register number written on both the instrument and the envelope.

Route	Where it goes	How fast it posts
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	Processed the day it arrives; available the next day. U.S. postal money orders post without a hold; most other instruments carry an automatic 15-day hold
Western Union Quick Collect	Code city FBOP, DC	Two to four hours on the Bureau’s Send Money page, two in the Bureau’s trust fund manual, Program Statement 4500.13, if sent between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Eastern; otherwise by 7:00 a.m. the next day
MoneyGram	Receive code 7932, company name Federal Bureau of Prisons, Washington, DC	Same as Western Union

Cash and personal checks are not accepted. See sending money to a federal prisoner. A visitor may not hand anything over in the visiting room either: the Visiting Room officer “is not authorized to accept money for an inmate,” and vending purchases during a visit are made by the visitor, from the $25 they may bring in.

What are the visiting hours at FMC Fort Worth?

The main visiting room at FMC Fort Worth runs 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and federal holidays. The Monday session is unusual. The schedule comes from the institution’s Visiting Regulations supplement, FTW 5267.09(C), dated May 17, 2024 and signed by the warden, which rescinded the October 2021 version.

The days are not the same for every part of the institution:

Where the person is held	Days	Hours and limits
Main visiting room (general population)	Saturday, Sunday, Monday, federal holidays	8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.; three visitors at a time including children
Abilene Unit Honor Dorm	The above, plus Friday	Processing 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.; three visitors
Jail Unit (the detention center)	Saturday, Sunday, federal holidays — no Monday	8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.; immediate family only; two adult visitors; three visits a week; 15 visitors in the room at once
Lubbock Unit (long-term care)	Saturday, Sunday, Monday, federal holidays	Processing 8:00–10:00 a.m. and 1:00–3:00 p.m.; two adult visitors
Special Housing Unit	Monday	By video conference, one hour, appointment only, requested two business days ahead
Administrative Detention or Disciplinary Segregation	Monday	In the Jail visiting room, one hour, ordinarily immediate family only
Attorneys visiting a Jail Unit client	Seven days a week	8:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m., in the Jail legal rooms

Source: Institution Supplement FTW 5267.09(C), Visiting Regulations.

Two cut-offs decide entry: processing of inmates “will discontinue at 9:30 a.m. in preparation for the 10 a.m. count,” and visitors arriving after 2:00 p.m. are not processed. The visitor handout attached to the supplement omits Monday, but the body of the supplement is the operative regulation and the 2018 handbook agrees with it, so Monday stands; if you are driving a long way, call first.

Call 817-534-8400: it is the number on the Bureau’s facility page and the warden’s number in the April 2024 PREA audit. The supplement’s address block prints “Telephone number: (817) 534-5400,” but that block is older and still calls the institution FCI Fort Worth. If 817-534-8400 does not answer, try (817) 534-5400.

The visiting point system, and why Monday matters

Visits are rationed by points, and the arithmetic rewards the weekday. “On the first day of each month, every inmate will be given nine visiting points. One point will be deducted for each weekday visit and two points will be deducted for weekend or holiday visits. No points may be carried over to the next month.”

On that scale, a family that comes only on weekends gets four visits a month and a point left over, and a family that can come on Mondays gets nine. A Minister of Record counts against neither the points nor the list. Special visits — more than the usual number of visitors — need the Unit Manager’s approval, are ordinarily justified by a relative living “in excess of a 300-mile radius,” and “will only occur once every 90 days per inmate.”

Who can visit, and what they can bring

• The visiting list holds up to twenty approved adults — twice what many federal institutions allow — plus a Minister of Record, who does not count against the twenty.
• Eighteen and over is an adult. A visitor aged 16 or 17 not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian needs that parent’s written approval first; anyone under 16 must be accompanied.
• The prospective visitor form, BP-A629, is mailed out by the incarcerated person and must come back by post: completed forms “will not be accepted from any source except official U.S. mail.”
• Three visitors at a time in the main room, counting adults and children together; two adults in the Jail Unit and the Lubbock Unit. A child under three may be admitted in addition and must be held throughout.
• Friends need a relationship established before confinement, which the Warden may waive “particularly for inmates without other visitors.”

What you may carry in is short: one clear purse or bag up to half-gallon size, up to $25.00 in cash, one credit or debit card, and vehicle keys. Sanitary products are expressly permitted, and visitors “will not be prohibited from visiting an incarcerated individual due to the use of sanitary products.” Life-sustaining medication such as nitroglycerin or an inhaler comes in but is held at the officer’s station, because “[t]he Visiting Room officer will not dispense medication.” Both visiting rooms have a private room for nursing mothers.

The dress code runs to fourteen numbered clauses, and the ones that turn visitors away are these: tops must cover stomach, shoulders, chest and back “at all times, even in movement”; a hemline or slit may be no more than two inches above the top of the knee; shoes need a back or a heel strap; and gray sweats, plain brown or white T-shirts, khaki and tan, hooded garments, umbrellas, gloves, sunglasses and watches of any kind are all barred — the first four because the commissary sells them or the men wear them.

Identification and screening

Photo identification is required for everyone sixteen and over, and one document is named and refused: “Mexican Consulate Identification Cards (Matricula Consular) will not be accepted as a form of identification for visitors to enter into the institution.” Birth certificates are not identification either, and attorneys are asked for a bar card as well as a license. Your identification is surrendered at the front lobby and held in the control center until you leave, and the lobby officer stamps your hand with invisible ink checked under black light on the way out.

Screening is a metal detector plus an X-ray machine for property, with a hard limit on retries: the lobby officer “will professionally advise visitors to leave the institution after the third unsuccessful attempt to clear the electronic search” — underwire bras and costume jewelry being the usual reasons. The handbook adds an ion scanner for drug residue on an escalating schedule: fail twice in a day and you do not visit, and a failed retest costs 30 days, a third failure 90, a fourth 180. See the Bureau’s visiting regulations, searches, shakedowns and contraband and federal prison visitation.

Visiting a patient in the Lubbock Unit or a hospital

A man on the nursing ward visits in the main room if he is medically cleared to get there. Only if the Chief Medical Officer, or in his absence the Health Services Administrator, decides he cannot make the trip does the visit move into the Lubbock Unit lobby, where “[o]rdinarily, visits will be no more than two hours in length,” two people from the approved list at a time, and visitors under sixteen are not ordinarily allowed without pre-screening by the social worker. Bedside visits are separate, permitted “for all inmates on the serious/critically ill list or those requiring extended hospitalization,” scheduled a day ahead and limited to parents, siblings, children and spouse.

If the person has been taken out to a community hospital, the default is no visit: “Visits will not normally be allowed while an inmate is in a community hospital,” with exceptions “usually only… considered if an inmate is seriously/critically ill.” The request runs social worker to Captain to Associate Warden to Warden, for immediate family or a designated next of kin only. Start with the social worker, and start early — that is the office that moves this.

Getting there

The institution’s own directions: “From Interstate 20, take the Wichita Street exit and travel north approximately one mile to Horton Road. Turn left on Horton Road and the main entrance will be approximately a quarter mile on the left. All visitors are expected to park in the designated parking spaces which are marked in blue.” The handbook gives the exit as 440A. Visitors may not arrive on the grounds “sooner than 30 minutes prior to the start of visiting hours,” and there is one way in: “there is only one entry to the institution, which is the front lobby.”

How do phone calls and email work at FMC Fort Worth?

Calls from FMC Fort Worth go out, never in, to numbers on an approved list. Under the Bureau’s telephone regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, issued September 3, 2026, a single call should generally not exceed 15 minutes, and calls are limited to 510 minutes a calendar month: 300 free to anyone eligible for First Step Act telephone incentives, and 210 more that can be bought only after the 300-minute limit is exhausted. Properly arranged unmonitored legal calls do not count against the allowance. See federal inmate phone calls.

Electronic messaging here is the Bureau’s TRULINCS system; a family member sees it as CorrLinks. At this institution the handbook gives access as “Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. until 11:30 p.m., and Weekends and Holidays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.” — a much shorter weekend window than most prisons. An earlier section of the same handbook says the unit computers run until 9:15 p.m., and the handbook does not say which figure controls. Sending or reading a message costs $0.05 per TRULINCS unit. See CorrLinks and TRULINCS.

Emergency messages from home go through neither route. At Fort Worth they go through the chapel: a death, accident or terminal illness in the family is reported to the Religious Services Department “so that the Chaplains can verify the information, notify the inmate, and then grant an emergency call. However, if the information is not verified, a phone call will not be granted nor will that inmate be notified.” Have the hospital’s or funeral home’s number ready; verification is the whole of the process.

What can people buy at the FMC Fort Worth commissary?

People at FMC Fort Worth can spend up to $460 a month at the commissary, the national limit. The Bureau’s trust fund rules, Program Statement 4500.13, issued May 7, 2026, raised it from $360. Stamps, copy cards and over-the-counter medications are excluded.

Fort Worth’s own handbook still says “The inmate commissary spending limit is $360.00 per month.” That was the national figure until May 2026 and is now obsolete. Men in refuse status under the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program are held to $25.00 a month.

The mechanics are local and unforgiving. The commissary is open Monday through Thursday, 6:00 to 7:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and stops accepting lists twenty minutes after the mainline doors are secured. Shopping day is set by the fourth and fifth digits of the register number. Miss three calls of your number at the window and you forfeit the week. Sales are final, and you bring your own laundry bag.

One rule printed on the order form reflects who is held here: once a list is turned in, a man must have a seat, and if no seat is available in the commissary lobby he waits outside until called — and the only exception is if he is in a wheelchair or using a walker. Failure to comply forfeits the week’s shopping.

The stock list tells the same story: reading glasses at $7.80 in eleven strengths from 1.0 to 4.0, a denture cup at $1.70, sugar-free candy and cocoa, a heart symbol marking the heart-healthy items, and kosher and halal labeling across the food list. Then the ordinary electronics of a long sentence — a tablet at $137.80, a fan at $41.35 — and a typewriter ribbon at $9.95. Special Purpose Orders are limited to one a month and, under Program Statement 4500.13 since May 2026, $600 a quarter including markup and shipping; the 2018 handbook’s $300 is obsolete. See the federal prison commissary.

What programs are available at FMC Fort Worth?

FMC Fort Worth offers more programs than most medical centers, and two of them, RDAP and the Mental Health Step Down Program, are reason enough to seek designation here. The list below comes from the Bureau’s First Step Act Approved Programs Guide (August 2026). Approval means a program is authorized; whether a class is running this month, and how long the waitlist is, is a question for the unit team.

RDAP and drug treatment

The Residential Drug Abuse Program runs here, which is not true of every medical center. The Bureau’s current list of RDAP locations, printed inside the August 2026 guide, records 57 programs at 50 locations, and FMC Fort Worth is one of them with no suspension marker.

That matters because it is otherwise hard to have both a hospital and the sentence reduction of up to twelve months that completion can carry under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e). Locally: interviews are requested by electronic message to Psychology Services or in person at open house, 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. on weekdays, in the drug program area underneath Food Service. Drug Education runs in the same space and is compulsory for anyone whose presentence report shows drug or alcohol use contributed to the offense; refusing means being “held at the lowest pay grade within the institution.” See the Bureau’s drug treatment rules and RDAP and early release.

The Mental Health Step Down Program

Fort Worth is one of five institutions in the Bureau approved to run the residential Mental Health Step Down Program. The August 2026 guide names the five in its own program page and marks the same five in its programs-by-institution table — USP Allenwood, FCI Atlanta, FCI Butner Medium I, FMC Fort Worth and FCI Sheridan — and describes it as “a unit-based, residential program offering intermediate level of care for those with serious mental illness who do not require inpatient treatment but lack the skills to function in general population.” It carries 500 credit hours toward the risk-score reduction under the First Step Act.

The institution’s 2018 handbook told arriving men that “FMC Fort Worth currently does not offer these comprehensive programs, but is anticipated to have a ‘Step-Down’ program to assist with mental health treatment needs in the future.” The August 2026 guide lists it as approved.

The rest of the mental health list comes from the guide’s programs-by-institution table, which marks Fort Worth for Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Illness Management and Recovery and the Inmate Companion Program. Two absences in the same table surprise people at a hospital: neither cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain nor cognitive behavioral therapy for late-life depression is marked here, and neither is post-secondary education. The productive-activity side reads like a geriatric clinic — A Matter of Balance, Walk with Ease, Brain Health As You Age, Healthy Steps for Older Adults, Managing Your Diabetes, Talking with Your Doctor and the Disabilities Education Program. See First Step Act time credits.

Education, vocational training and the library

Four vocational programs run here, all accredited by Tarrant County College and running four to eight months: Office Technology, Construction Trades, HVAC, and Building Service Maintenance. Department of Labor apprenticeships are offered in Cook, Plumbing, HVAC Installer and Servicer, and — fitting the mission — Dental Assistant. See prison education and vocational training.

The law library and leisure library are open seven days a week except holidays, 7:00 to 10:30 a.m., noon to 3:00 p.m. and 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. — unusually long hours, and a real advantage for anyone working on a filing. The institution also participates in inter-library loan through the Fort Worth Public Library, so a book the prison does not hold can be borrowed from the city.

Work is assigned, not chosen, and the first assignment is the same for almost everyone: “Under normal circumstances, A&O inmates will be placed in Food Service for the first 90 days.” The Connections Resource Center, open weekdays 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., helps with birth certificates, Social Security cards and transcripts — the documents that decide how the first week outside goes.

What is daily life like at FMC Fort Worth?

Daily life at FMC Fort Worth is slower than at a penitentiary and more medical than at a low, built around counts, the pill line and the hour.

	Weekdays	Weekends and holidays
Wake-up	6:00 a.m.
Meals	Breakfast 6:00 a.m., lunch 11:00 a.m., dinner 4:30 p.m.	Coffee hour 7:00 a.m., brunch 10:45 a.m., dinner 4:30 p.m.
Uniform required	7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.	—
Controlled movement	On the hour, for the first ten minutes
Standing counts	4:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.	10:30 a.m., 4:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Recreation yard	From 7:00 a.m.; recall 8:45 p.m.	From 6:15 a.m.; recall 8:45 p.m.
Lockdown	9:15 p.m., before the 9:30 count

Source: FMC Fort Worth Admission & Orientation Handbook (2018), the newest edition the Bureau publishes; read the hours as the shape of the day rather than this week’s timetable.

Because the general population units have no cell doors, lockdown here means staying in an open room rather than behind a closed one. The call-out sheet is the document that runs a man’s week, posted on the unit bulletin board “after 4:00 p.m. on the day preceding the appointment,” and missing one is a disciplinary matter.

Recreation is better resourced than at most medical centers. Photographs with visitors are taken in the visiting room on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays between 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., with vouchers bought from the commissary at a dollar each and a child under ten allowed to sit on a lap.

What do inspectors say about conditions at FMC Fort Worth?

Two reviews look at this institution alone: an Inspector General report conducted entirely by telephone in 2020, and a 2024 audit under the Prison Rape Elimination Act that looked only at sexual safety. The DOJ Office of the Inspector General has not conducted an on-site inspection of this facility. The District of Columbia’s Corrections Information Council, which inspects institutions holding DC residents, has never inspected it either. Beyond those, the Inspector General has been inside this building once, in fieldwork run between March and August 2015 for its review of the Bureau’s Release Preparation Program, published August 31, 2016 — a program evaluation, not an inspection of the place — and it publishes survey results for this institution by name in two pandemic products, one of staff in September 2021 and one of prisoners in May 2023. None of that is an on-site examination of general conditions in a federal hospital built for 1,250 people and holding 1,567.

The 2020 Inspector General remote inspection

Between April 23 and 30, 2020, the Inspector General conducted what it called a remote inspection of FMC Fort Worth, publishing Pandemic Response Report 21-012 on December 15, 2020. The report states its method: “We conducted this inspection remotely… This inspection included telephone interviews with FMC Fort Worth officials, review of documents produced by the BOP…, the results of an OIG survey issued to all BOP staff, and analysis of BOP and COVID-19 data.” Even the photographs in it “were taken by FMC Fort Worth officials at the OIG’s request.” No one from the Inspector General’s office walked through the building. Its findings on conditions, among them that cells without doors made social distancing difficult, rest on that remote record.

What it does contain is the most detailed account of this institution in public. Fort Worth had one of the worst outbreaks in the federal system: first infection April 8, 2020, first death April 22, and “[a]s of November 29, there had been 12 inmate deaths due to COVID-19.” By May 12 roughly 42 percent of the population had tested positive, 521 of them without symptoms — 22 positives on April 20 had become 140 three days later.

The hospital transfers broke the staffing: “[A]s many as 32 inmates received care at two hospitals, compared to an average of 10 to 15 during normal operations,” each needing two officers who could not then return to posts inside, so that between April 16 and 22 “the number of FMC Fort Worth staff members assigned to the hospitals ranged between 20 and 81,” out of 344. The institution improvised with a hundred-man unit in the gymnasium and heated tents in the recreation yard holding 89 men by May 15.

The staff survey compares this institution with the rest of the Bureau. Ninety-six of 314 staff responded.

Immediate need identified	FMC Fort Worth	BOP-wide
Additional staff to cover posts	67% (60 of 89)	39%
More space to quarantine	60% (53 of 89)	23%
Increased social distancing for staff and inmates	48% (43 of 89)	33%
More PPE for staff	74% (66 of 89)	68%

Source: DOJ OIG Pandemic Response Report 21-012, Appendix 2. Survey open April 21–29, 2020.

One finding belongs to families rather than administrators: the institution designated a single staff member as liaison for the families of hospitalized men, who “after inmates died she handled all communications with the families, including those concerning disposition of remains.” The Inspector General also received 68 complaints from prisoners, family members and staff here between April 21 and August 12, 2020, and did not assess whether they were true. Since that report the Inspector General has named this institution in nine further products and inspected it in none of them: the Inspector General’s March 2021 testimony to a House subcommittee; the January 2021 remote inspection of FCI Terminal Island; the staff survey of September 2021 and the prisoner survey of May 2023, both of which publish figures for Fort Worth by name; the March 2023 capstone review of the pandemic response; the February 2022 and February 2024 compendia of Bureau oversight products; the February 2023 evaluation of the Bureau’s handling of sexual harassment; and the 2021 report on the Department’s top management challenges, which names Fort Worth, with FCI Terminal Island, as an institution whose physical layout “affected the ability to allow for proper social distancing.”

The 2024 PREA audit

FMC Fort Worth was audited under the Prison Rape Elimination Act on site from April 16–18, 2024, by an independent auditor, Valerie Wolfe Mahfood, subcontracted by PREA Auditors of America; the final report was submitted on June 2, 2024. The facility passed: six standards exceeded, thirty-five met, none unmet. Among the exceeded were access to outside confidential support services and ongoing medical and mental health care for victims and abusers. The institution holds a signed agreement with the Women’s Center of Fort Worth for rape crisis support, and forensic examinations are performed off site by qualified nurse examiners at no cost.

In the twelve months before the audit the institution recorded six allegations of sexual abuse and two of sexual harassment. Five of the abuse allegations were prisoner-on-prisoner: one unfounded, four unsubstantiated. The sixth was staff-on-prisoner, administratively substantiated and referred for prosecution. Unlike some audits, every investigation file was reviewed on site.

The audit, which gives the designed capacity as 1,250, is also the only public census of who is actually held here. On its first day, with 1,498 men present:

Physical disability	100
Blind or low vision	55
Deaf or hard of hearing	52
Cognitive or functional disability	10
Limited English proficient	184
Transgender or intersex	11
Disclosed prior sexual victimization at screening	131
Age range of the population	19 to 88

One hundred and seven men who are blind, have low vision, or are deaf or hard of hearing, in a building whose units have no cell doors and communal bathrooms. The auditor’s caveat belongs with those numbers: prisoners “were allowed to self-select out of and/or into all targeted categories during the interview process.” The audit also names two handbooks the Bureau does not publish: an “FTW FMC Inmate Admission and Orientation Handbook, English, June 2023,” five years newer than the edition on bop.gov, and an “FTW Jail Inmate Admission and Orientation Handbook, English, January 2024.” If you are representing someone in the Jail Unit, ask for that second one.

What the court record shows

The Northern District of Texas sits in Fort Worth, so this institution’s disputes are litigated a few miles from its gate, and the largest case never reached the merits. In 2021 a prisoner filed on behalf of “numerous other inmates at FMC–Fort Worth” over the coronavirus response; class certification was denied and the claims were severed. The lead case ended in summary judgment for the warden and two unit managers, and the reason was procedural: all claims were dismissed “for failure to exhaust administrative remedies under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a).” Rudzavice v. Wilson, No. 4:21-cv-0176-P (N.D. Tex. July 7, 2022). The court quoted, from a Fifth Circuit concurrence, the line that decided it: “there is no COVID exception to the PLRA’s exhaustion requirement.”

Under 28 C.F.R. § 542.18, if a request “is determined to be of an emergency nature which threatens the inmate’s immediate health or welfare,” the warden must respond within three days. At a medical center that is the clock to start, in writing, on day one. See the administrative remedy program and how to file a BP-9.

Two jurisdictional lessons repeat here. A petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 is not the way to challenge conditions or to demand home confinement; absent a sentence modification under § 3582(c) that placement decision belongs to the Bureau. Provines v. Wilson, No. 4:20-cv-00475 (N.D. Tex. May 20, 2020). And compassionate release asked for inside a civil complaint goes nowhere: it must be made to the sentencing court. Stone v. Wilson, No. 4:20-cv-00406 (N.D. Tex. July 13, 2021).

The medical negligence cases share an ending. Claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act over a delayed hernia repair, a stroke first treated as dehydration and the removal of an eye for melanoma were each resolved for the government on summary judgment between 2019 and 2021, and the rule to understand before spending money on litigation is that allegations reflecting “disagreement with medical treatment” are “not enough to show deliberate indifference.” The 2018 handbook says men are evaluated for halfway-house placement at “17 to 19 months remaining before their release date,” on the unit team’s recommendation; the placement itself runs through the reentry office for the district a man is releasing to, which for the Northern District of Texas is RRM Dallas.

FMC Fort Worth in the news

Recent news about FMC Fort Worth centers on the October 2025 designation of Nicholas Roske; older items concern a 2022 guilty plea over a contraband drone and the deaths the Bureau reported here from 2020 to 2022.

• October 2025 — Nicholas Roske, sentenced to 97 months for attempting to murder a Supreme Court Justice, was designated to this institution. The Justice Department said it would appeal the sentence as insufficient.
• October 2022 — a Texas man pleaded guilty to attempting to provide contraband after flying a drone “loaded with contraband – including methamphetamine, THC, tobacco, cell phones, and mp3 players – into the airspace of FMC Fort Worth.” It “crashed inside a secure, fenced-in yard near the prison’s HVAC shop, where staff recovered it.”
• April 2020 to June 2022 — the Bureau posted 18 news releases reporting the deaths of people held at FMC Fort Worth; the Bureau’s releases are listed on its press release page.

Frequently asked questions about FMC Fort Worth

Problems at FMC Fort Worth: where we can help

The problems that recur here are the problems of a hospital run as a prison, and this institution’s own record shows which ones:

• Care that is ordered and does not happen. Every medical negligence suit out of this institution turns on an interval — between the specialist’s recommendation and the appointment, between the referral and the surgery. A Care Level 4 patient must see a clinician every three months, and building the chronology against that yardstick is the work; it is the same chronology a compassionate release motion needs.
• Getting in, and getting the designation to stick. The 770 is written by a clinician at the sending institution and approved in Washington. Argument aimed anywhere else is wasted, and the case for making Fort Worth a permanent parent facility has to be made before the redesignation, not after.
• Compassionate release under § 3582(c)(1)(A). The government will argue that the medical-center designation is itself the answer to any claim that specialized care is not being provided. Three men were released from here on this ground in 2020, and a judge granted every one. See our compassionate release practice.
• Administrative remedies that were never finished. The largest piece of litigation from this prison collapsed on exhaustion. The emergency route at 28 C.F.R. § 542.18 requires a warden’s answer within three days when health or welfare is at immediate risk; use it, and keep the paper.
• Disciplinary proceedings and the Special Housing Unit. Telephone contraband drives most of the traffic here, and SHU visits at Fort Worth happen by video, once a week, by appointment. See disciplinary proceedings, special housing, the Bureau’s special housing unit rules and protective custody.
• First Step Act credits and sentence computation. Habeas petitions from this institution have been dismissed as moot because the man reached a reentry center while the case was pending. Check the arithmetic early; see First Step Act time credit reviews, the Bureau’s sentence computation manual, challenging a sentence computation and our federal prison early release practice.
• Accommodation for disability. A hundred men with physical disabilities, and a hundred and seven blind, low-vision, deaf or hard of hearing, were counted here on one day in 2024.
• Challenges to the conviction or sentence itself, through a direct appeal or a § 2255 motion.

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Sources and currency

Bureau of Prisons documents

• FMC Fort Worth, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The Bureau’s facility page.
• Institution Supplement FTW 5267.09(C), Visiting Regulations, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FMC Fort Worth, 2024. Replaced FTW 5267.09(B) (2021).
• FMC Fort Worth Admission and Orientation Handbook, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2018.
• FMC Fort Worth Commissary Shopping List, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2025.
• Send Money, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026.
• FCI Ft. Worth Becomes a Federal Medical Center, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2016.
• Press Releases, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2020–2022. Includes the 18 releases reporting deaths at FMC Fort Worth.
• Trust Fund/Deposit Fund Manual, Program Statement 4500.13, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Sets the $460 commissary spending limit.
• Compassionate Release/Reduction in Sentence Procedures, Program Statement 5050.51, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Replaced Program Statement 5050.50 (2019).
• Inmate Security Designation and Custody Classification, Program Statement 5100.08, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Medical redesignation and form BP-A0770.
• Inmate Telephone Regulations, Program Statement 5264.09, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Replaced Program Statement 5264.08 (2008).
• Patient Care, Program Statement 6031.06, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Care levels and do-not-resuscitate orders.
• First Step Act Approved Programs Guide, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Reentry Services Division, 2026. Includes the RDAP locations list.
• 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.
• Federal Prison System, FY 2019 Performance Budget, Congressional Submission: Salaries and Expenses, U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2018. Still lists the institution as FCI Fort Worth.

Audits and inspections

• PREA Facility Audit Report: Final, FMC Fort Worth, PREA Auditors of America, 2024. Auditor Valerie Wolfe Mahfood.
• Compendium of Federal Bureau of Prisons Oversight Products, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2024.
• Inmate Perceptions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Management of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2023.
• Capstone Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic (Report 23-054), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2023.
• Evaluation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Efforts to Address Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Committed by Inmates Toward Staff (Report 23-034), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2023.
• Compendium of Non-Investigative Reports on the Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2022.
• Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Justice — 2021, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2021.
• Staff Perceptions of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Management of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Follow-Up Survey of BOP Staff (Report 21-126), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2021.
• Statement of Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, on Management, Performance Challenges, and COVID Response at the Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2021. Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies.
• Remote Inspection of Federal Correctional Institution Terminal Island (Report 21-025), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2021.
• Remote Inspection of Federal Medical Center Fort Worth (Pandemic Response Report 21-012), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2020.
• Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Release Preparation Program (Evaluation and Inspections Report 16-07), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2016.
• The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Efforts to Manage Inmate Health Care (Report 08-08), U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2008.

Court records

• Nicholas Roske Sentenced to Over Eight Years in Prison for Attempted Murder of Supreme Court Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, 2025. Nicholas Roske’s 97-month sentence.
• Former BOP Correctional Officer Arrested and Pleaded Guilty to Bribery, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2025. A staff prosecution at FMC Fort Worth.
• Former BOP Correctional Officer Sentenced for Conspiracy to Provide Contraband to a Prisoner, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2024. A staff prosecution at FMC Fort Worth.
• Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Delivering Contraband to Prison via Drone, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas, 2022. The October 2022 drone contraband plea.
• Rudzavice v. Wilson, No. 4:21-cv-0176-P (N.D. Tex. July 7, 2022), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2022.
• Former BOP Contract Medical Assistant Pleaded Guilty and Sentenced for Providing Contraband in Prison, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2021. A staff prosecution at FMC Fort Worth.
• Stone v. Wilson, No. 4:20-cv-00406 (N.D. Tex. July 13, 2021), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2021.
• Gibson v. Wilson, No. 4:19-cv-00438-P (N.D. Tex.), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2021.
• Provines v. Wilson, No. 4:20-cv-00475 (N.D. Tex. May 20, 2020), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2020.
• Woody v. Wilson, No. 4:19-cv-00795 (N.D. Tex.), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2020.
• Scroggins v. United States, No. 4:19-cv-00163 (N.D. Tex.), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2020.
• Dean v. United States, No. 4:19-cv-00340 (N.D. Tex.), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2020.
• Self v. United States, No. 4:18-cv-00666 (N.D. Tex.), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2020.
• United States v. Ebbers, No. S4 02-CR-1144-3 (VEC) (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 8, 2020), U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2020. Bernard Ebbers’s compassionate release.
• Jenkins v. United States, No. 4:18-cv-00918 (N.D. Tex.), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2019.
• Pealer v. United States, No. 4:18-cv-00944 (N.D. Tex.), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2019.
• Former BOP Employee Sentenced For Engaging in Sexual Acts With an Inmate, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2017. A case at FMC Carswell.
• Dallas Doctor Sentenced on Health Care Fraud Conviction, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas, 2017. Jacques Roy’s 420-month sentence.
• Former BOP Cook Pleads Guilty to Sexual Abuse of an Inmate, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2016. A case at FMC Carswell.
• United States v. Ballard, 599 F. App’x 199 (5th Cir. 2015) (No. 14-10345), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2015. Phillip Ballard’s appeal.
• Priest Who Sexually Abused Inmates at FMC Carswell in Fort Worth Sentenced to 4 Years in Federal Prison, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, 2008. A case at FMC Carswell.

News and other sources

• Former TV star Josh Duggar transferred to Oklahoma City federal facility, News9, Oklahoma City, 2026.
• Health Workforce Connector site profile: Federal Medical Center Fort Worth, Health Resources and Services Administration, 2026. Supplied by the site; the Health Resources and Services Administration does not verify it.
• 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.
• 18 U.S.C. § 373, Solicitation to commit a crime of violence, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(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. § 4048, Fees for health care services for prisoners, 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).
• 28 U.S.C. § 2241, Power to grant writ, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), Suits by prisoners, U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute).
• 28 C.F.R. § 542.18, Response time, Code of Federal Regulations (Legal Information Institute).
• 28 C.F.R. § 549.70(b), Purpose and scope, Code of Federal Regulations (Legal Information Institute).

Sources reviewed September 2026.

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