FMC Butner

MALE

Gender

ADMINISTRATIVE

Security Level

802

Population (July 9, 2026)

No RDAP

Federal Medical Center, Butner (FMC Butner) is an administrative-security United States federal medical facility for male inmates in Butner, North Carolina, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It is one of five separate institutions at the Federal Correctional Complex, Butner, alongside a low-security FCI, two medium-security FCIs, and a satellite camp.

FMC Butner
Field	Detail
Full name	Federal Medical Center, Butner
Type	Federal Medical Center (FMC)
Security level	Administrative
Gender	Male (entire facility)
Population (BOP population report, July 9, 2026)	802
RDAP	Not listed on the current BOP RDAP location list (the complex's FCI Butner Medium I and Medium II components are separately listed)
Attached camp	No, per BOP locator (the complex-wide satellite camp is a separate BOP-listed facility)
Address	Old N. Carolina Hwy 75, Butner, NC 27509
BOP region	Mid-Atlantic Region
Coordinates	36.1382, -78.7994
Phone	919-575-3900
BOP facility page	bop.gov/locations/institutions/buh

Overview

FMC Butner is one of five distinct BOP institutions at the Butner federal correctional complex: FCI Butner Low, FCI Butner Medium I, FCI Butner Medium II, a satellite camp, and FMC Butner (this page). This session found no verifiable, dated bop.gov narrative describing the medical center's opening date, capacity, or housing layout, since the underlying BOP institution page renders that content through JavaScript that a static fetch cannot read.

Notable Inmates

Bernie Madoff - Financier convicted of running the largest Ponzi scheme in history. His Prisonpedia entry states he died at the Federal Medical Center Butner on April 14, 2021, after being housed for most of his incarceration at the medium-security component of the Butner complex. This page cannot state with certainty whether that was FCI Butner Medium I or Medium II, since his cited entry refers to it only as "Butner Medium"; his death at FMC Butner specifically is the well-sourced fact and is what places him on this page.

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Location

Physical location: BUTNER, NC 27509

Mailing address: OLD N. CAROLINA HWY 75, BUTNER, NC 27509

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.

Daily life and programs

FMC Butner does not appear on the BOP's current RDAP location list, unlike the complex's Medium I and Medium II FCIs, which are separately listed. Standard BOP-wide commissary and work-assignment policy applies; see Commissary Operations and Inmate Accounts.

First-hand accounts

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

A quarter of all federal in-custody deaths happen at the Butner complex — NPR. National investigative journalism on the rate of federal in-custody deaths at the Butner medical complex.
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski transferred to FMC Butner's medical unit — CNN. National journalism tied to a notable resident's transfer to the facility's medical unit.
1 in 4 federal inmate deaths happens at one federal prison — Federal Public/Community Defenders. Legal-advocacy analysis of the same death-rate finding, with medical-care context.
So what's above Durham City in Durham County? — Reddit (r/bullcity). Durham-local thread naming Hinckley, Madoff, and Kaczynski as past Butner residents, with local geography context.