FCC Terre Haute

The Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute (FCC Terre Haute) is a multi-institution complex of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Terre Haute, Indiana. Complexes co-locate penitentiaries, FCIs, medical facilities and camps on shared ground to share services and staff.

Components

Data verified: November 2026

Facility	Security level	Status (Nov 2026)
USP Terre Haute	High	Open — includes the federal execution facility
FCI Terre Haute Medium	Medium	Open
Satellite camp	Minimum	Open

Overview

Home of the federal death row chamber; Timothy McVeigh was executed here in 2001.

Component pages without links are pending — the complex hub provides the shared context in the meantime.

First-hand accounts

Community threads and first-person accounts about this facility:

• r/OnTheBlock — Terre Haute ranked; no locality pay, lowest BOP pay
• r/OnTheBlock — Terre Haute 'the pinnacle of the Feds'; holiday mandates
• r/Map_Porn — federal death row at FCC Terre Haute noted