Edgefield Federal Correctional Institution also known as Federal Correctional Institution, Edgefield, is a medium security federal prison

Federal prison

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 for men located in Edgefield County, South Carolina

South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

; it is partially within the city limits of Edgefield, and partially in an unincorporated area

Unincorporated area

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. The facility is located near the Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

-South Carolina border, about 25 miles (40.2 km) from Augusta

Augusta, Georgia

Augusta is a consolidated city in the U.S. state of Georgia, located along the Savannah River. As of the 2010 census, the Augusta–Richmond County population was 195,844 not counting the unconsolidated cities of Hephzibah and Blythe.Augusta is the principal city of the Augusta-Richmond County...

, Georgia.

The facility was opened in November 1998, has the capacity to house 960 inmates, and has a staff of around 400. There is also a smaller satellite prison camp for minimum security inmates.

Notable inmates

Name	Number	Status	Details
Michael David Barrett	22822-424		person who secretly videotaped Erin Andrews Erin Andrews Erin Jill Andrews is an American sportscaster, journalist, and television personality. As of 2011 she is a co-host of the ESPN entertainment show College GameDay and a contributor for Good Morning America on the ABC network...
William Cotton			Former Hamilton County, Tennessee Hamilton County, Tennessee Hamilton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It was named for Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 310,935 . Its county seat is Chattanooga....  Commissioner County commission A county commission is a group of elected officials charged with administering the county government in local government in some states of the United States. County commissions are usually made up of three or more individuals... , caught up in the Operation Tennessee Waltz Operation Tennessee Waltz Operation Tennessee Waltz was a sting operation set up by federal and state law enforcement agents, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The operation led to the arrest of seven Tennessee state lawmakers and two men identified as "bagmen" in the...  corruption sting Sting operation In law enforcement, a sting operation is a deceptive operation designed to catch a person committing a crime. A typical sting will have a law-enforcement officer or cooperative member of the public play a role as criminal partner or potential victim and go along with a suspect's actions to gather... .
René González			One of the Cuban five Cuban Five The Cuban Five, also known as the Miami Five are five Cuban intelligence officers convicted in Miami of conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, and other illegal activities in the United States... .
Kent Hovind Kent Hovind Kent E. Hovind is an American young earth creationist. Hovind speaks on creation science and aims to convince listeners to reject theories of evolution, geophysics, and cosmology in favor of the Genesis creation narrative as found in the Bible...	06452-017	At FCI, Edgefield from 2007 until August 2010	Tax evador and founder of Creation Science Evangelism
Thomas Noe Thomas Noe Thomas W. Noe is an Ohio Republican party fundraiser and activist, guilty of money laundering for the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign and of theft and corruption in the "Coingate scandal"...			Ohio Republican party fundraiser and activist, guilty of money laundering for the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign
Merle Temple			former campaign manager of Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...  schools superintendent Linda Schrenko Linda Schrenko Linda Schrenko is a former superintendent of schools in the U.S. state of Georgia who was convicted on an embezzlement scheme and sentenced to 8 years in prison.- Biography :Schrenko was born on July 24, 1949, in Millen, Georgia... , in prison for embezzling $600,000 in federal education money.
Mark Whitacre Mark Whitacre Mark Edward Whitacre came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland , he was the highest-level corporate executive in U.S. history to become a Federal Bureau of Investigation whistleblower...	07543-424	He was in Edgefield minimum security satellite camp until May, 2003, and then incarcerated at the Pensacola, Florida Naval Base Prison Camp until his release in December, 2006	He was the highest level executive of a Fortune 500 company in U.S. history to turn whistleblower and FBI informant
George Capell	57698-066		TV pitchman who defrauded customers out of $39 million.

External links

• Federal Correctional Institution, Edgefield – Official website