Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) – Tallahassee

Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) – Tallahassee's comprehensive information to help guide you through the federal prison process, specifically on how to remain connected to your inmate while they are incarcerated.

The FCI-Tallahassee is a federal prison located at 501 Capital Cir NE in Tallahassee, FL. This federal low security prison is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to hold inmates who have been convicted to and sentenced for a federal crime through the US Department of Justice (DOJ).

Locate all federal inmates here. If you would like to speak with a case manager or counselor, call 850-878-2173.

FCI Tallahassee is a low-security United States federal prison for female inmates in Florida opened in 1938. The facility also has an adjacent detention center that houses administrative security level male inmates. FCI Tallahassee is located 3 miles east of downtown Tallahassee, on Highway 319 at its intersection with Park Avenue and Conner Boulevard.

Notable inmates include Narcisa Veliz Novack, serving life for orchestrating the beating deaths of her ex-husband and mother-in-law. Colleen LaRose, US citizen is known as "Jihad Jane;" pleaded guilty in 2011 to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism and conspiracy to kill in a foreign country for using the Internet to recruit people to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe. (serving 10 years for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism and conspiracy to kill in a foreign country); Earth Liberation Front (ELF) member Chelsea Gerlach (released in 2013 after serving 6 years for arson); Catherine May Wood, the serial killer who murdered nursing home patients in conjunction with her lesbian partner Gwendolyn Graham. Jaelyn Delshaun Young is who in 2015 attempted to move to Syria with her fiancé, an American man named Muhammad Oda "Mo" Dakhlalla, to join ISIS to work as a medic. She pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges and was sentenced Young to 12 years in federal prison.​

Security Level: Main: Low; Detention Center: Administrative (Multiple Security Levels)

Housing: Inmates are housed in dormitories. The detention center inmates are housed in cells.

Health Services: FCI Tallahassee provides emergency medical services, physical exams, periodic health exams, female health care, TB and HIV testing, medications, dental services, and eyeglasses. The detention center provides sick call, medication refills, emergency medical services, physical exams, TB and HIV testing, and dental services. Emergency medical care is available 24 hours a day.

Psychology Services: All inmates at FCI Tallahassee are screened by Psychology Services staff during the institution’s Admission and Orientation Program. Each housing unit also has a unit counselor and psychologist on staff to provide guidance, counseling, and other mental health services to unit inmates. In the detention center psychology services are also available in the form of short-term supportive counseling for those who are identified by themselves, or by staff as having difficulty handling their current circumstances. Requests can also be made to speak to a psychologist. Voluntary groups such as self-image groups are also available. The STAGES Program is available for inmates with serious mental illness and personality disorders.

Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP): FCI Tallahassee houses a Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP). A Drug Abuse Program, the Non-Residential Drug Abuse Program (NR-DAP), and Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) are also available.

Education Services: FCI Tallahassee offers literacy, GED, and English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) programs. Adult Continuing Education (ACE), marketable skills training, and parenting courses are also available. Due to the short-term nature of the Detention Center, educational opportunities are limited. High school diplomas and post-secondary programs are available through paid correspondence programs.

Advanced Occupational Education: Advanced occupational education programs at FCI Tallahassee include Business Education I & II, Building Trades I & II, Cosmetology, Horticulture, and a Custodial Maintenance Technician Program.

Vocational Training: FCI Tallahassee offers Building Trades, Business Education, and Horticulture vocational training programs.

Apprenticeship: Apprenticeship programs at FCI Tallahassee are available to inmates in Construction, Electrician, Baker, Cook, Horticulturist, Housekeeper, Landscape Management Tech, Landscape Technician, Material Coordinator, Metal Fabricator, Office Apprenticeship, Painter, Plumber, Quality Control Inspector, Refrigeration Apprenticeship, Stationary Engineer, Teacher Aide 1, and Wood Machinist.

Library Services: A leisure and law library are available to inmates in the main prison. In the detention center, reading materials are available in the housing units. The leisure libraries offers fiction and nonfiction books, newspapers, and magazines. The law libraries offer typewriters, copy machines, and the TRULINCS Electronic Law Library.

UNICOR: The FCI Tallahassee UNICOR facility handles services.

Commissary: Inmates are permitted to spend $360.00 per month for regular purchases. Postage stamps and over-the-counter medication are exempt from the spending limit. Inmates may shop once a week on their designated shopping day. Inmate funds are retained by the institution in a trust fund from which the inmate may withdraw money for personal spending in the institution Commissary, family support, or other approved purposes. Accumulated institutional earnings and money sent from outside are given to the inmate upon release or may be mailed home.

Recreation Services: Recreational programs at FCI Tallahassee and the detention center include both indoor and outdoor activities. Indoors, inmates can participate in various artwork and hobbycraft programs. Outdoors, inmates can engage in individual and group exercises, sports, and other leisure activities.

Important links

Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) – Tallahassee Low – Admissions & Orientation Handbook
Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) -Tallahassee Low – Inmate Legal Activities
Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) -Tallahassee Low – Commissary List
Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) -Tallahassee Low – Directions to the Prison

visitation Info

Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) – Tallahassee Low – Visiting Hours

• Friday 8:30am – 3:00pm
• Saturday 8:30am – 3:00pm
• Sunday 8:30am – 3:00pm