The Federal Bureau of Dublin, Dublin (FCI Dublin) is a US federal prison with low security for female detainees in Dublin, California. The facility also has a satellite prison complex adjacent to a women's residence with minimum security.
FCI Dublin is located 20 miles southeast of Oakland in the Reserve Park Army Training Area. Located near Santa Rita Prison, operated by Alameda County.
Video Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin
History
FCI Dublin opened in 1974. Became a women's prison exclusively in 2012 and is one of only three federal prisons for women in the United States.
Maps Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin
Facilities and programs
The prison education department offers GED and ESL programs, as well as parenting skills courses. Prisons also provide legal and recreational library services in addition to training in the use of various computer software.
There are two UNICOR Federal Prisons Industry programs at FCI Dublin: Textiles and Call Centers. Textiles employs about 150 inmates in the manufacture of special curtains, parachutes, and blankets. They also sort and repair the USPS mail bag. Call Center employs about 250 inmates in directory assistance questions.
This is a detention center that is serving an average of 5 years. It has a design capacity of 250 inmates, but houses 1,077 on April 11, 2013. The condition is narrow, with three inmates sharing a cell designed to accommodate one inmate. Food is served in turns due to the small size of the dining facilities.
Like most American prisons, the Dublin FCI also contains a SHU (Security Housing Unit), in which every detainee considered to have violated prison rules is kept in secession under a very strict regime. Prisoners at SHU spend more time locked in their cells than the general prison population, are only allowed out for a limited time and must be transported to and from their cuff-wearing cells. Depending on the circumstances, a prisoner may spend weeks or even months at SHU.
FCI Dublin is surrounded by two separate fences with a gap of about 10 feet (3.0 m) between them. Measuring 14 feet (4.3 m) tall, each chain-link fence is reinforced with multiple razor wires (top and bottom) plus an electronic sensor to detect escape attempts.
It also has an administrative detention facility adjacent to the residence of adult males with detention or pre-adjudication status, and a minimum-security satellite camp accommodating adult female perpetrators, which was opened in 1990. This minimum security is some barracks old soldiers and this has been torn down. BOP has removed part of FCI and placed about 200 female minimum security prisoners in this space. This facility only lacks FCI. All guards are played out of FCI.
The famous incident
On November 5, 1986, Ronald McIntosh, who had fled during a jail transfer one month earlier, landed a stolen helicopter on the practice yard and fled with Samantha Lopez, who was serving a 50-year sentence for bank robbery. McIntosh is serving a penalty for wire fraud when he meets Lopez who works in the prison office and both are designing an escape plan. They were arrested by the FBI Agent 10 days later and then convicted of air piracy and escape. McIntosh received a 25-year sentence and Lopez had five years added to his penalty.
Leading Prisoner
Prisoners imprisoned before 1982 do not have assigned register numbers.
See also
- US federal prison list
- The Federal Prisons Bureau
- Detention in the United States
References
External links
- FCI Dublin - Official BOP Site
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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