FCI Marianna (minimum-security camp)

FCI Marianna is a minimum-security satellite camp for women in Marianna, Florida, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It held about 235 people as of November 2025. The institution's main number is 850-526-2313.

FEMALE

Gender

MINIMUM

Security Level

235

Population (Nov. 2025)

RDAP

Location

Physical location: MARIANNA, FL 32446

Mailing address: 3625 FCI ROAD, MARIANNA, FL 32446

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 Marianna allow conjugal visits?

No. FCI Marianna 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 Marianna?

FCI Marianna 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

Opened in 1988, FCI Marianna is a Federal Bureau of Prisons complex located in Marianna, Jackson County, in the Florida panhandle. It sits roughly 65 miles (105 km) west of Tallahassee, falling within the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The main institution functions as a medium-security prison for men, but an adjoining minimum-security satellite camp houses women. This creates an unusual split-gender configuration in which the camp population is entirely female while the walled institution next door holds male inmates. The facility's mailing address is 3625 FCI Road, Marianna, FL 32446. Published camp counts vary by source, ranging from roughly 200 to 211 women according to InmateAid and prison-consultant profiles to about 380 based on Wikipedia's stated prison-camp figure. Additionally, the BOP's official page did not render an exact current count during this research.

Camp housing consists of dormitory-style arrangements rather than cell-based confinement. According to consultant and first-person descriptions, the women reside in a two-story building featuring two-person cubicles, with roughly 40 women on each floor sharing open bathrooms equipped with toilet stalls. Each woman is issued a mattress, sheets, blanket, towel, and clothing, and may buy a lockable locker from the commissary for personal storage. Because the institution functions as a camp, there are no perimeter fences or locked cells. Intake runs several hours; one account cites about six hours of fingerprinting, photos, and paperwork across multiple departments. Work is mandatory. A former camper recalled being paid about 17 cents an hour in 2004, a rate consistent with standard BOP work-detail wages.

The camp provides various programming options, including GED preparation, vocational and life-skills training, English-as-a-second-language classes, religious services, and Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) work assignments. Inmates may also participate in recreation such as crafts, television, team sports, and wellness instruction. Medical services are delivered by on-site medical staff who are supplemented by contract providers from the surrounding area, and inmates needing higher-level care are sent to Jackson Hospital in Marianna. It could not be confirmed from a primary BOP source during this research whether the camp operates a Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) unit, and this information should be verified before publishing.

The camp is situated in the hot panhandle climate. In a December 2025 first-person dispatch for the Prison Journalism Project, former camper Tanya Legg described Marianna's summers as 'scorching' but comparatively dry. She noted that personal fans were made available when the air conditioning failed, resulting in conditions she found milder than the South Carolina camp she was later transferred to. Notable women held at the Marianna camp include Harriette Walters (BOP register 29155-016), the ringleader of a $48 million District of Columbia property-tax-refund fraud, who was released January 13, 2022. The facility also housed former Commonwealth Edison CEO Anne Pramaggiore, who reported January 12, 2026 to serve a two-year sentence in the ComEd/Madigan bribery case before being released on bail that April after the Seventh Circuit ordered a new trial. Additionally, former Lynn Haven, Florida mayor Margo Anderson served a 30-day sentence for making false statements to the FBI, and she later published a memoir about her time at the camp.

First-hand accounts

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

• After a Prison Transfer, I'm Still Not Used to the Heat — Prison Journalism Project (Tanya Legg). First-person Dec 2025 essay by a woman who was incarcerated at FCI Marianna's satellite camp, comparing the camp's dry-but-scorching summer heat (fans available when A/C failed) to the worse humidity at FCI Estill after her transfer. PJP verifies writers' identities and the institutions named.
• Tanya Legg, Author at Prison Journalism Project — Prison Journalism Project. Author archive for Tanya Legg, a former Marianna camp resident who writes first-person dispatches about federal women's camp life for PJP.
• Campers: Thirty Days in the Marianna Federal Correctional Institution Satellite Camp — Memoir by Margo Anderson (former Lynn Haven, FL mayor). Book-length first-person memoir of Margo Anderson's 30-day 2023 sentence at the Marianna women's satellite camp, covering intake, dorm life and day-to-day routine (framed from the author's self-exculpatory perspective on her underlying case).
• Reddit comment: former Marianna camper (2004) — Reddit. First-hand comment from a woman who was at the Marianna camp in 2004: 'no fences, no cells... it's still prison. You work while you are there. I made 17 cents an hour.'

See also

• FCI Marianna camp: a practical guide for women preparing to serve time there (womensfederalprison.com)