United States · IN · Terre Haute
USP Terre Haute
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How to send mail, money, and visit USP Terre Haute
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Photo by United States Penitentiary Terre Haute via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Photo by United States Penitentiary Terre Haute via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Photo by United States Penitentiary Terre Haute via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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U.S. Penitentiary operated by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons. BOP region: North Central Region.
Background
The Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute (FCI Terre Haute) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Indiana. It is part of the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute (FCC Terre Haute) and 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 for minimum-security male offenders. FCC Terre Haute is located 2 miles (3 kilometers) south of the City of Terre Haute and 70 miles (110 kilometers) west of Indianapolis.
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Capacity
1,500
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1940
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Population held
male
Opened
1940
Region
IN
Security level
High
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
BOP-operated facility; conditions reports issued by the DOJ Office of Inspector General on a multi-year cycle.
Visiting
Visit days and hours vary by facility. Visitors must be on the inmate's approved visitor list (form BP-A0629). Pre-screen via VINELink + the facility's visiting page.
Mailing
Inmate Name & Register #, USP Terre Haute, 4700 BUREAU ROAD SOUTH, Terre Haute, IN 47802. Cash and metal staples not accepted; CorrLinks (TRULINCS) for email if subscribed.
Practical info
Inmate funds via Western Union QuickCollect to the BOP Trust Fund (receiver: inmate name, prisoner ID, BOP Trust Fund). Email service via CorrLinks where the inmate has subscribed.
Known issues
Notable inmates
Timothy McVeigh (executed 2001), Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Dylann Roof.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
Compared to other facilities in United States
3134 peersHigher risk than 0% of peer facilities in United States.
Data completeness
94%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- BOP facility page
- BOP locations API
- Federal Bureau of Prisons — Locations — US Department of Justice
- US Federal Bureau of Prisons — locations directory — US Department of Justice
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.