Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee

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Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee is located on the south side of Tallahassee, Florida on Southeast Capital Circle (US 319). The City of Tallahassee accepted the construction of the Federal Correctional Institution if the Government also built a park next to the prision. Tom Brown Park was built as a sports complex bordering the prison.

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

[edit] Shootings

On June 21, 2006 at 7:42 AM EST, FBI and Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General agents attempted to arrest 6 prison guards in a corruption investigation into guards trading drugs for sex with female inmates. One of the guards, Ralph Hill, used a personal handgun and opened fire on the agents. He killed one agent with the Department of Justice's 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 guards 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." [1][2] [3]

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.

Bomb Threats

On the morning of March 29 a bomb threat was reported to the Tallahassee Police Department regarding the FCI complex. The police are currently investigating.