The Federal Correctional Institution, Miami (FCI Miami) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Florida. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), a division of the United States Department of Justice. The institution also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security male offenders.
FCI Miami is located in southwest Miami-Dade County, Florida, about 30 miles from downtown Miami.
A significant portion of the inmates held at FCI Miami have been convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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History
FCI Miami was opened in 1976. Federal Bureau of Prisons officials used the facility to house some of the people who emigrated to Florida from Cuba during the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. The number of refugees eventually reached over 100,000 and many of the refugees had criminal records. The facility did not have nearly enough capacity to hold even a significant portion of the refugees, so the Bureau of Prisons, with the assistance of the military and other federal agencies, created detention camps inside and outside Florida to house them.
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Notable inmates (current and former)
See also
- List of U.S. federal prisons
- Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Incarceration in the United States
References
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