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| Location | Pekin, Illinois |
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| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Medium-security (with minimum-security prison camp) |
| Population | 1,200 (300 in prison camp) |
| Opened | 1994 |
| Managed by | Federal Bureau of Prisons |
The Federal Correctional Institution, Pekin (FCI Pekin) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Illinois. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp which houses minimum-security female offenders.
FCI Pekin is located approximately 10 miles south of Peoria, Illinois, 180 miles southwest of Chicago, and 180 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri.[1] It is located within the city limits of Pekin, Illinois.
Kathy Kelly, who had been incarcerated in the Pekin complex, wrote the book Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison.[2] Shon Hopwood, while serving time in FCI Pekin, became an accomplished United States Supreme Court practitioner by the time he was released in 2008.[3]
- ^ "FCI Pekin". Federal Bureau of Prisons.
- ^ Diuguid, Lewis. Discovering the Real America: Toward a More Perfect Union. Universal-Publishers, 2007. ISBN 1599424215, 9781599424217 p. 490.
- ^ Liptak, Adam (February 8, 2010), "A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer", The New York Times, retrieved May 23, 2010