Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee

Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee is a federal prison on the south side of Tallahassee, Florida, on Southeast Capital Circle (U.S. Route 319). The City of Tallahassee accepted the construction of the Federal Correctional Institution if the government also built a park next to the prison; Tom Brown Park was built as a sports complex bordering the prison.

It is a low security prison housing about 1,400 female inmates. It also has a detention center adjacent to the prison that houses administrative security level male inmates. It holds 205 men.

Shootings

On June 21, 2006, at 7:42 a.m. local time, Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General agents attempted to arrest six correctional officers in connection to a corruption investigation into correctional officers trading drugs for sex with female inmates. One of the officers, Ralph Hill, used a personal handgun and opened fire on the agents. He killed one agent with the DOJ Office of Inspector General. The suspect involved in that incident was also killed. A lieutenant with the Federal Bureau of Prisons was injured in the shooting. He was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.

The shooting began in the lobby of the building and moved into the courtyard near US 319. Federal officers were unarmed at the time and the officers were to have been unarmed as well. Michael Folmar, the FBI's special agent in charge in Jacksonville, was quoted as saying "This arrest situation was done in a manner to be very controlled ... where nobody would have any weapons, and we could take this down so there wouldn't be any violence, and this is exactly how it would be handled normally across the United States."cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/21/fla.shooting/index.html | title=Sex and drug arrest triggers deadly Florida prison gunfight | publisher=CNN |date= 2006-06-22 | first= | last= | accessdate =2007-05-11] The officers to be arrested, Alfred Barnes, Gregory Dixon, Alan Moore and E. Lavon Spence, were transported to Wakulla County Jail south of Tallahassee. Vincent Johnson, the last man named in the indictment, was not involved in the sex part of the corruption, but for influencing the prisoners.

On the morning of March 29, 2007 a bomb threat was reported to the Tallahassee Police Department regarding the FCI complex. The police are currently investigating.Fact|date=May 2007

References

External links

* [http://bop.gov/locations/institutions/tal/index.jsp Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee]