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The Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, is a federal prison for adult males located at the intersection of State Road 63 and Springhill Drive, two miles southwest of Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons is a subdivision of the United States Department of Justice, and is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system. ...
There are two facilities at FCC Terre Haute: Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute; and United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute. USP Terre Haute is currently the home of the only death chamber for federal death penalty recipients in the United States, where they receive lethal injection. Among those most recently executed at USP Terre Haute were Timothy McVeigh and Juan Raul Garza in 2001, and Louis Jones, Jr., in 2003. McVeigh, the mastermind behind the Oklahoma City bombing, was the first prisoner executed by the U.S. Government since the moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in 1976. Drug traffiker Howard Marks served time there.[1] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ...
Lethal injection involves injecting a person with fatal doses of drugs to cause death. ...
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was a decorated Army veteran who subsequently was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role in the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. ...
Juan Raul Garza (c1957 - June 19, 2001) was an American murderer and drug trafficker who was executed for a federal crime. ...
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The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on April 19, 1995 aimed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ...
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United States Penitentiary
A new United States penitentiary was authorized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 and established in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1940 on 1,126 acres of land. The opening of the prison in this city was partly due to heavy promotion by Terre Haute’s Chamber of Commerce, which eventually went on to raise $50,000 to pay for the property on which the prison was built.[2] The residents of Terre Haute initially embraced the prison due to the impression that it would provide jobs to local residents in addition to helping Terre Haute’s economy while only housing non-violent offenders. E.B. Swope was the prison’s first warden. FDR redirects here. ...
The U.S. Public Works Administration issued a $3 million grant to pay for construction of USP Terre Haute in 1938.[2] Construction cost of the institution at the time that it was built was $2,250,000.[2] The architectural design of the prison is a modified telephone pole design with all housing and other facilities opening onto a long central corridor. It was the first penitentiary for adult felons ever to be constructed without a wall. In 2004, the USP was rebuilt on adjoining property with the old penitentiary becoming a medium-security Federal Correctional Instition. The Public Works Administration of 1933 (PWA) was a part of the first New Deal agency that made contracts with private firms for construction of public works. ...
USP Terre Haute was among one of the first federal prisons to emphasize rehabilitation by providing psychological and psychiatric treatment, referring to prisoners by names as oppose to numbers, and allowing prisoners to talk during meals instead of eating in silence. The institution initiated the use of the word "inmate" as opposed to other less-appealing labels such as "convict" or "criminal". It also became one of the first federal prisons to implement educational programs in prisons with sessions devoted to improving the inmates' skills in reading, writing, math, as well as trades.
USP Terre Haute is a Care Level 3 facility, which means that any inmate sent to Terre Haute who has serious health issues that are not major enough to cause that inmate to be hospitalized is sent to the USP. This facility is also a tobacco-free institution. This part of the FCC contains six housing units. One of the six housing units is a faith-based unit that can house 125 inmates. When the inmates are not working, they are partaking in faith-based activities. All of the inmates in the USP are allotted seven visit-days a month and 300 minutes of telephone time, which they have to use in increments of 30 minutes or less. The inmates housed here can work at UNICOR, which is a prison industry that makes towels and other accessories for the military. Inmates employed here earn an average of $6.50 to $7.50 a day and some can make up to $12 a day if they are paid by piece as opposed to by the hour. Also referred as UNICOR (short for UNIque CORporation),[1] the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. ...
Camp The Terre Haute Camp was built in 1962 with the purpose of housing non-violent felons to perform farm and maintenance duties. The camp has two, eight, and twelve-person rooms. Programs provided for inmates in this facility include GED, ESL, and drug education classes. Sports, cards, golf, and crafts are all different recreational activities that the inmates may partake in within the camp. A selected group of inmates at the camp partake in a community talk tour called "Choices", where these inmates visit schools and speak to children that are already involved in meth. The Federal Bureau of Prison’s National Bus Center is operated through this camp. The GED, General Educational Development, or General Equivalence Degree Test, is a test that certifies the taker has attained American or Canadian high school-level academic skills. ...
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Federal Corrections Institute In 2001, the Federal Bureau of Prisons decided to build a second facility, costing approximately $80 million. This new penitentiary was initially intended to be another maximum-security facility that would include a new Special Confinement Unit, but ended up serving as a medium-security facility without the Special Confinement Unit. This new unit went on to become part of the USP while the FCI instead acquired the adjacent camp that only housed minimum-security male offenders.[2]
Death row In 1993, USP Terre Haute became the only federal prison in the United States to house a death row. It was selected due to its geographic location in the center of the country and the fact that it already was a high-security prison that housed some of the nation’s most dangerous inmates. This institution carries out executions of inmates by means of lethal injection. The most public and controversial death sentence to take place at the prison was the June 11, 2001 execution of Timothy McVeigh, who was convicted in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. On June 19, 2001, Juan Raul Garza became the second person executed at USP Terre Haute, for his involvement in three drug-related murders that occurred in 1993. On March 19, 2002, Louis Jones Jr. became the third person executed at this institution, for kidnapping, raping, and killing 19-year-old Tracie Joy McBride. For information about the Record company see Death Row Records For information about the computer game see Deathrow (game) Death Row is a term which refers to the section of a prison that houses individuals awaiting execution. ...
All inmates serving death row sentences are placed in the Special Confinement Unit (SCU) of USP Terre Haute. This unit became a part of USP in July, 1999. The SCU can hold a maximum of fifty inmates. The SCU provides religious and educational television programs, medical and psychological treatment, indoor and outdoor recreation, in addition to an industrial workshop that provides jobs for the inmates.
Communications Management Unit On 2007-02-25, the Washington Post reported that the Justice Department had quietly created a medium security Communications Management Unit (CMU) housing 213 inmates in Terre Haute.[3] The CMU monitors all telephone calls and mail, and requires that all inmate conversations occur in English unless special permission is arranged for conversations in other languages. Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons created the CMU in response to criticism that it had not been adequately monitoring the communications of terrorist prisoners. "By concentrating resources in this fashion, it will greatly enhance the agency's capabilities for language translation, content analysis and intelligence sharing," according to the Bureau's summary of the CMU.[3]
The CMU is located in the former death row, and was opened in December, 2006. All but two of the inmates are Arab Muslims, leading the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to raise a concern about racial profiling. The ACLU also charged that the communication restrictions are unduly harsh for prisoners who are not sufficiently serious security threats to warrant placement in ADX Florence, the Supermax facility in Colorado. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a major American non-profit organization with headquarters in New York City, New York, whose stated mission is to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States...
Racial profiling, also known as ethnic profiling, is the inclusion of racial or ethnic characteristics in determining whether a person is considered likely to commit a particular type of crime (see Offender Profiling). ...
The ADX Florence facility from the outside The United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence is a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. ...
Supermax is the name used to describe control-unit prisons, or units within prisons, which represent the most secure levels of custody in prison systems. ...
Current inmates include the Buffalo Six, Randall "Ismail" Royer, Enaam M. Arnaout, Zvonko Busic and Rafil A. Dhafir. The Buffalo six (also known as the Lackawanna 6) is a group of Yemeni-American Al-Qaeda terrorists who were convicted of material support to Al-Qaeda, although as of January 2004 Jaber Elbaneh remains in Yemen custody. ...
Though the Council on American-Islamic Relations has received public recognition and endorsement by prominent public figures, including President George W. Bush and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, high-ranking members of CAIR have taken stances that many critics say belie its self-portrayal as a moderate organization dedicated to...
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Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir is an American Iraqi born physician, who was sentenced on October 28, 2005, to 22 years in prison for violating the Iraqi sanctions by sending money to Iraq through his charity front Help the Needy, and for fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, and a variety of...
Demographics The USP Terre Haute total inmate population is 1,410. The racial breakdown of the USP is as follows: 57% of inmates are black, 39% are white, 4% are of other ethnicity. 26% of inmates were convicted for weapon violations, 25% for drug offenses, 25% for robbery charge, 10% for homicide offenses, and 14% for other offenses. The average sentencing length for the USP is 198 months. The median inmate age is 37 years old.
The Terre Haute Camp houses 429 inmates. The racial breakdown of the camp is as follows: 50% of inmates are white, 49% are black, and 1% are of other ethnicity. 71% of the inmates were sentenced for drug offenses, 14% for fraud/robbery/extortion, 9% for weapon-related offenses, and 6% for other offenses. The average sentencing length for the camp is 84 months.
The FCI Terre Haute total inmate population is 1,168. The racial breakdown of the FCI is as follows: 56% are black, 39% are white, and 5% are of other ethnicity. 43% of inmateswere sentenced for drug-related offenses, 28% for weapon-related offenses, 13% for robbery offenses, and 16% for other offenses. The average sentencing length is 130 months. The median inmate age at the FCI is 36 years old.
References - ^ Federal Bureau of Prisons: Terra Haute
- ^ a b c d Taylor, Zach (2001-05-06), "Penitentiary opened to great fanfare", Tribune-Star
- ^ a b Eggen, Dan (2007-02-25), "Facility Holding Terrorism Inmates Limits Communication", Washington Post
The Tribune-Star is a seven-day morning daily newspaper based in Terre Haute, Indiana, covering the Wabash Valley area of Indiana and Illinois. ...
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