FCI Williamsburg (minimum-security camp)

FCI Williamsburg is a minimum-security satellite camp for men in Salters, South Carolina, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It held about 87 people as of November 2025. It does not offer the Residential Drug Abuse Program. The institution's main number is 843-387-9400.

MALE

Gender

MINIMUM

Security Level

87

Population (Nov. 2025)

No RDAP

Location

Physical location: SALTERS, SC 29590

Mailing address: 8301 HIGHWAY 521, SALTERS, SC 29590

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 Williamsburg allow conjugal visits?

No. FCI Williamsburg 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 Williamsburg?

FCI Williamsburg 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 Correctional Institution, Williamsburg is a medium-security U.S. federal prison for men in Salters, South Carolina, roughly 90 miles southeast of the state capital Columbia in rural Williamsburg County, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons within its Southeast Region. Adjacent to the main compound sits a minimum-security satellite prison camp, the subject of this entry, which holds nonviolent male offenders judged to pose little threat to public safety and a low flight risk, most of them with a relatively short amount of time left to serve. Secondary sources date the complex's activation to 1994. Unlike the main institution, the camp operates without secure perimeter fencing, and its residents are housed in open dormitories or barracks-style quarters rather than the two- and three-person cells used on the medium-security side.

Similar to other Bureau of Prisons satellite camps, the Williamsburg camp pairs dormitory housing with a comparatively open, movement-oriented daily routine. The facility's headcount fluctuates based on the parent institution's needs, meaning any single number should be treated as a snapshot rather than a fixed capacity. Published camp counts have varied across sources, ranging from about 86 men reported in September 2023 to figures near 94 and, in some listings, well above 100. Residents of the minimum-security camp typically provide labor that supports the larger institution through duties such as grounds keeping, food service, and general facilities maintenance. The FCI Williamsburg complex, which serves the camp, can be reached at 843-387-9400.

Programming at FCI Williamsburg provides inmates with adult education through GED and English-as-a-Second-Language courses, as well as Adult Continuing Education, parenting, life skills, career counseling, and release-preparation classes. The facility's psychology department facilitates psycho-educational groups such as anger and stress management and sexual-abuse prevention and intervention. To address substance use, reporting indicates that the institution offers a Drug Education course, the Non-Residential Drug Abuse Program (NR-DAP), and meetings for Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Notably, multiple secondary sources state that the intensive Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), which can carry a sentence reduction, is not offered at this location; this is a detail worth confirming directly with the Bureau of Prisons before relying on it. Furthermore, FCI Williamsburg does not house a UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries) factory. Comprehensive health services for both the main institution and the camp encompass dental and chronic care, 24-hour emergency medical coverage, and scheduled sick call, which is held on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at 7:00 a.m.

Several high-profile federal prisoners have been associated with FCI Williamsburg, including former Ohio State and NFL quarterback Art Schlichter for fraud, former West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry for mail and wire fraud, oncologist Farid Fata for health-care fraud, and the would-be U.S. Capitol bomber Amine El Khalifi. Available reporting places these men at the medium-security main institution or refers to them generally as its inmates. None is documented in a reliable source as having served specifically at the minimum-security satellite camp. Furthermore, the long or high-security sentences of Fata, at 45 years, and El Khalifi, at 30 years for an attempted weapon-of-mass-destruction plot, are inconsistent with camp placement. They are therefore recorded as inmates of the broader Williamsburg complex rather than the camp itself.

First-hand accounts

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

• Going to Williamsburg Prison Camp in Salters, SC, almost no information online, anyone have insight? - Reddit. Thread started by a person (since deleted) preparing to report to the Williamsburg minimum-security camp and seeking first-hand information. The original body is now deleted and the replies are brief; commenters note only that a minimum-security federal camp is among the least restrictive settings and suggest calling the facility. Directly about the camp but thin on lived detail.
• FCI Williamsburg, the good, the bad, and the ugly - Reddit. First-hand corrections-staff perspective on FCI Williamsburg from someone interested in working there. A reply, apparently from a current employee, says the institution is roughly 15 staff short of operating without mandatory overtime and augmentation, describes 'a lot of junkies to deal with,' and estimates '2-3 fights a month.' This describes the medium-security main institution, not the minimum-security camp.