{{Short description|Prison complex in Arizona}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox prison | prison_name = Federal Correctional Complex, Tucson | image = Federal_Correctional_Institution,_Tucson.jpg | image_size = 215 | location = [[Tucson, Arizona]] | coordinates = | status = Operational | classification = High, medium and minimum-security | population = 2,500 (two facilities and prison camp) | opened = | closed = | managed_by = [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] | warden = }} The '''Federal Correctional Complex, Tucson (FCC Tucson)''' is a United States [[federal prison]] complex for male inmates in Arizona. It is operated by the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]], a division of the [[United States Department of Justice]].
The complex consists of two facilities: * [[Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson]] (FCI Tucson): a medium-security facility. * [[United States Penitentiary, Tucson]] (USP Tucson): a high-security facility with a satellite prison camp for minimum-security inmates.
==History and facility== About 520 employees are required to staff the entire federal complex with additional labor provided by the minimum-security camp.<ref name="AZStar-20061228-ready">{{cite news|author=Tim Ellis|title=Federal prison nearly ready|url=http://azstarnet.com/news/local/east/article_4d63b91c-e76d-5094-88e0-52d3356f76c3.html|work=[[Arizona Daily Star]]|access-date=August 17, 2010|date=December 28, 2006}}</ref> The opening of the U.S. Penitentiary in February 2007 worsened a local shortage of prison officers,<ref name="AZStar-20070202-drain">{{cite news|author=Dale Quinn|title=Guard drain strains Tucson prisons|url=http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_6a7dd900-3942-5cf6-a13e-b477f3c5e395.html|work=[[Arizona Daily Star]]|access-date=August 17, 2010|date=February 2, 2007}}</ref> drawing some staff away from the nearby [[Arizona State Prison Complex - Tucson|state prison complex]] operated by the [[Arizona Department of Corrections]], also on Wilmot Road.<ref name="AZ-Complex-Tucson">{{cite web|title=Arizona State Prison Complex - Tucson|url=http://www.azcorrections.gov/prisons/Prisca_Prisons_Tucson.aspx|publisher=[[Arizona Department of Corrections]]|access-date=August 15, 2010|archive-date=October 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012232617/http://www.azcorrections.gov/prisons/Prisca_Prisons_Tucson.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== * [[List of U.S. federal prisons]] * [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] * [[Incarceration in the United States]] {{Portal|United States|Politics|Law}} {{-}}
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100527145948/http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/tcx/index.jsp FCC Tucson] at the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] (Official site) {{Tucson, Arizona}} {{Federal Bureau of Prisons}} {{Coord|32.08611|N|110.85798|W|display=title}}
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