FCI Jesup (minimum-security camp)

FCI Jesup is a minimum-security satellite camp for men in Jesup, Georgia, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It held about 129 people as of November 2025. It does not offer the Residential Drug Abuse Program. The institution's main number is 912-427-0870.

MALE

Gender

MINIMUM

Security Level

129

Population (Nov. 2025)

No RDAP

Location

Physical location: JESUP, GA 31599

Mailing address: 2600 HIGHWAY 301 SOUTH, JESUP, GA 31599

Visitation

There are many specific rules and procedures to be aware of when you're considering visiting the institution. Read more on our Visitation Guide.

For full, current visiting rules and scheduling, always check the institution's official page on the Bureau of Prisons website: Official BOP Page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does FCI Jesup allow conjugal visits?

No. FCI Jesup does not allow conjugal visits. The Federal Bureau of Prisons does not permit conjugal visits at any facility regardless of security level. This includes all minimum-security federal prison camps, low-security FCIs, medium-security facilities, and high-security USPs. Only four state prison systems (California, Connecticut, New York, and Washington) allow conjugal visits for state prisoners. Federal inmates have no access to conjugal or extended family visits anywhere in the BOP system.

Q: What types of visitation are allowed at FCI Jesup?

FCI Jesup allows contact visits during designated visiting hours, typically on weekends and holidays. Contact visits permit brief embraces at the start and end of visits, but prolonged physical contact is not allowed. All visits occur in supervised visiting rooms. Visitors must be pre-approved through a background check process and must follow dress code requirements. For full details, see the Visiting Policies and Procedures page.

Daily life and programs

Situated roughly 60 miles southwest of Savannah, FCI Jesup is a federal correctional complex located in Wayne County, Georgia. The site opened in phases, starting with a prison camp that came online first in 1989. Following this, the main medium-security Federal Correctional Institution was activated in July 1990. The original 1989 camp was later converted into a Federal Satellite Low. Today, the complex operates as three co-located components: the medium-security main institution, the low-security satellite, and a separate minimum-security satellite prison camp for adult men. Positioned adjacent to the main institution, the camp, like all federal prison camps, has no perimeter fencing. The reported camp capacity is roughly 125 to 165 men, which is small next to the roughly 900 held at the main FCI. Consequently, the camp population is a distinct and much smaller group than the headline institution.

Consistent with the minimum-security designation, camp inmates reside in open dormitory-style housing rather than locked cells. Operating with no fence, the camp relies on standing counts and the low flight risk of its residents. Accordingly, the Bureau of Prisons generally reserves camp designations for men with minimal criminal history and short time remaining. Compared with higher-security facilities, camps like Jesup offer greater freedom of movement, lower levels of violence, and access to First Step Act programming. Monitored phone access is available seven days a week, though individual calls are cut off at 15 minutes. First Step Act eligible inmates receive 300 free minutes per month, with a per-minute rate applied beyond that amount. Finally, the camp commissary operates on set shopping days subject to a monthly spending limit reported around $360.

Every able-bodied camp inmate receives a work assignment, as the camp supplies much of the labor that keeps the larger complex running. These assignments include food service, groundskeeping, and facilities maintenance. Additionally, camp inmates staff the complex's Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) operation, which at Jesup has produced clothing and textiles. Because UNICOR jobs pay more than most institutional details, they are commonly sought by camp workers. This work-centered daily routine, along with the open layout, is what most distinguishes camp life from the controlled movement of the medium-security institution next door.

Programming at the camp emphasizes education and reentry. The facility offers literacy and GED instruction, English-as-a-Second-Language, and Adult Continuing Education classes that have included commercial driver's license (CDL) prep, legal research, basic finance, Spanish, resume writing, and parenting. Additionally, a law library is available to the camp and satellite-low populations. The complex runs the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), the BOP's intensive nine-month treatment track that can earn up to a year off a sentence, along with non-residential drug education and Alcoholics Anonymous. Published sources are inconsistent, however, about whether the residential RDAP unit is physically housed at the camp or at the main institution. Religious services, outdoor recreation, and weekend and holiday visitation round out camp life.

First-hand accounts

First-person accounts and reporting about life at this facility. Experiences are individual and may not reflect current conditions.

• Jesup satellite prison camp - Reddit. Community thread seeking first-hand knowledge of the minimum-security Jesup satellite camp on behalf of someone about to self-surrender there. Camp-specific Q&A rather than a full memoir, but directly about this facility and security level.
• Surrendering Monday morning to Lompoc camp, any advice? (comment referencing a Jesup camp designation) - Reddit. Ex-con self-surrender advice thread in which a commenter references a Southeast-region acquaintance being designated to the Jesup camp. First-hand community discussion of camp designations, tangential rather than a detailed personal account of Jesup.

Notable inmates

Name	Sentence	Offense	Dates
Jim Bakker	Originally 45 years, later reduced to 8 years; paroled July 1994	Fraud and conspiracy (PTL televangelism finances), convicted 1989	August 1993 to July 1994