FCI Oxford (low-security)

FCI Oxford is a low-security federal correctional institution for men in Oxford, Wisconsin, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It held about 1,142 people as of November 2025. It does not offer the Residential Drug Abuse Program. The institution's main number is 608-584-5511.

MALE

Gender

LOW

Security Level

1142

Population (Nov. 2025)

No RDAP

Location

Physical location: OXFORD, WI 53952

Mailing address: COUNTY ROAD G & ELK AVENUE, OXFORD, WI 53952

Visitation

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Daily life and programs

The Federal Correctional Institution, Oxford is a low-security federal prison for men in the village of Oxford, Adams County, Wisconsin, roughly 60 miles north of Madison in the rural central part of the state. It opened in 1973 and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons within the agency's North Central Region. The complex includes the main institution and an adjacent minimum-security satellite prison camp that also houses men. Recent BOP figures put the total population near 1,100 to 1,150 inmates. The institution provides the standard federal intake process, including Admissions and Orientation, commissary access, legal-activity access, and Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) compliance programming.

Oxford operated as a medium-security institution for men throughout most of its history. On June 21, 2023, the Bureau of Prisons announced a mission change, reclassifying the site 'from a Medium security male institution to a Low security male institution.' The agency identified Oxford as the fourth facility converted in support of the First Step Act, an action intended to expand low-security bed capacity and to house incarcerated people closer to their release residences, generally within 500 miles. Although the mission change lowered the overall security designation of the institution, Oxford remained a men-only facility and kept its satellite camp intact.

Facility programming emphasizes reentry and rehabilitation. The signature offering is the Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), a voluntary residential treatment track described as roughly nine months and about 500 hours of programming; successful completion can qualify eligible participants for up to a 12-month reduction in sentence. Education services include literacy, GED, and English-as-a-Second-Language classes, along with Adult Continuing Education and parenting courses. Additionally, high-school-diploma and post-secondary study are available through paid correspondence. Vocational training and apprenticeship options reported for the site include Certified Production Technician and Culinary Arts. The main institution offers apprenticeships such as Carpentry, Culinary Arts, and Dental Assistant, while the camp lists trades like maintenance repair, painting, stationary engineering, wastewater treatment, and welding.

Daily routines follow the standard federal low-security pattern, requiring all medically able inmates to work unless they are enrolled full-time in education. Common assignments include food service, facilities maintenance, landscaping, janitorial duty, and library-aide work, with institutional pay generally cited between $0.12 and $0.40 per hour. Inmates may supplement their meals and supplies through the commissary, subject to a monthly spending limit reported around $360. Recreational opportunities are extensive for a low-security site, featuring a walking and jogging track as well as spaces for basketball, handball and racquetball, softball, tennis, bocce, and horseshoes. The facility also provides weightlifting and fitness equipment, access to musical instruments, and hobbycraft such as ceramics, leatherwork, and painting. Because sources conflict on whether a UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries) operation runs at Oxford, that detail is left unresolved.

Notable inmates

Name	Sentence	Offense	Dates
Dan Rostenkowski	Pleaded guilty in 1996; served about 17 months, released 1997; pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2000	Mail fraud (used federal money for personal favors and gifts); longtime U.S. Representative from Illinois and House Ways and Means Committee chairman	1996-1997
Carlos Almonte	20 years; scheduled release listed as June 20, 2027	Conspiracy to murder people outside the United States and attempting to join the terrorist group Al-Shabaab	Serving (release ~2027)
George Papadopoulos	14-day sentence; served 12 days, released December 7, 2018	Making a false statement to FBI investigators; former Trump 2016 campaign foreign-policy adviser convicted in the Special Counsel Russia investigation	2018