FCI Seagoville (minimum-security camp)

FCI Seagoville is a minimum-security satellite camp for men in Seagoville, Texas, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It held about 95 people as of November 2025. The institution's main number is 972-287-2911.

MALE

Gender

MINIMUM

Security Level

95

Population (Nov. 2025)

RDAP

Location

Physical location: SEAGOVILLE, TX 75159

Mailing address: 2113 NORTH HWY 175, SEAGOVILLE, TX 75159

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 Seagoville allow conjugal visits?

No. FCI Seagoville 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 Seagoville?

FCI Seagoville 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

The Federal Prison Camp at Seagoville functions as a minimum-security satellite camp attached to the low-security Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Seagoville, a men's facility operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The complex is located in Seagoville, Texas, about 11 miles southeast of downtown Dallas in Dallas County. The camp represents a distinct custody tier from the main institution. While the main FCI holds low-security men behind a double-fenced, controlled-movement perimeter, the adjacent camp houses the lowest-custody inmates in an unfenced, open setting. Reported camp population figures vary by source, ranging from roughly 94 minimum-security men in recent Bureau-derived counts to about 170 in older tallies. These figures stand against a main-institution population well above 1,300. Camp designation is generally limited to men with minimal criminal history, no serious violence or sex-offense history, no detainers, and relatively short remaining sentences. Consequently, the facility's best-known inmates are housed at the main FCI rather than the camp.

Daily life at the camp mirrors the established pattern of Bureau minimum-security satellite camps. Rather than occupying the cells and multi-person rooms of a fenced institution, inmates reside in open, dormitory-style housing and navigate the camp footprint with comparatively more freedom. Because satellite camps exist in part to supply labor for the larger complex, inmates typically fill work details in food service, groundskeeping, warehouse and facilities maintenance, as well as support jobs tied to the main institution. Furthermore, as release approaches, these individuals may become eligible for community-based programming and pre-release placement. For these reasons, the camp is often described as a stepping-stone assignment for men nearing the end of a sentence.

The Seagoville complex has one of the longer and more unusual histories in the federal system. Constructed for about $1.8 million on an 830-acre tract, the facility opened on October 10, 1940 as the Federal Reformatory for Women. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the property was converted into a wartime detention station operated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It held Japanese, German, and Italian nationals who were classified as 'enemy aliens'. During this era, single detainees lived in dormitories, while couples resided in prefabricated one-room 'Victory Huts'. The detention mission closed in June 1945 after holding roughly 650 to 700 people. The site then reopened as a minimum-security facility for men in 1945. It shifted to a Youth Corrections Act mission in 1969, with a maximum inmate age of 27. The location operated as a Federal Prison Camp beginning in 1979 and became a Federal Correctional Institution in 1981 when a perimeter fence was installed. The adjacent Federal Detention Center opened in 1996. The present-day minimum-security camp continues the site's long lineage of low-custody, unfenced confinement.

Programming at Seagoville is concentrated at the main FCI, and the camp shares some but not all of it. The Bureau's flagship Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), the roughly 500-hour, nine-month treatment track whose completion can earn up to a year off a sentence, is run inside the main institution rather than the camp; the shorter Drug Education and Non-Residential Drug Abuse programs are available to both FCI and camp inmates. Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) operates a textile and clothing factory at Seagoville that produces institutional garments, one of the higher-paying work assignments in the complex. First-hand accounts and news reporting tied to Seagoville, including 2023 reports of summer heat and a brief inmate hunger strike over restricted recreation, describe conditions in the main low-security FCI and its heavily sex-offender population, not the minimum-security camp, and should not be read as descriptions of camp life.