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The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin (FCI Dublin) is a federal prison for women in the United States. FBOP redirects here For the bank holding company see FBOP Corporation. A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of The United States of America —commonly referred to as the It is located near the city of Dublin in Alameda County, California, 20 miles southeast of Oakland and approximately 40 miles east of San Francisco. Dublin is a suburban city of the East (San Francisco Bay region of Alameda County, California, United States. Alameda County is a county in the US state of California. It occupies most of the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Oakland (ˈoʊklənd founded in 1852 is the eighth-largest city in the U The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city

Situated on the Parks Reserve Forces Training Area (PRFTA), FCI Dublin opened in 1974 and is one of only three federal facilities for women in the US. Parks Reserve Forces Training Area (PRFTA is a United States Army facility located in Dublin California that is currently a semi-active mobilization and training It is a low-security facility incarcerating female offenders who are serving an average sentence of 5 years. The prison is completely surrounded by a double fence topped with multiple coils of razor wire. Barbed tape or Razor Wire is a mesh of metal strips with sharp edges whose purpose is to prevent passage by humans It has a design capacity of 250 inmates, but houses well in excess of 1,000. Conditions are cramped, with three inmates sharing a cell designed to house a single prisoner. term prison cell or holding cell refers to the accommodation of a Prisoner in a Prison or Police station. Meals are served in shifts due to the small size of the dining facilities.

Like most American prisons, FCI Dublin also contains an SHU (Security Housing Unit), where any prisoners who are deemed to have broken prison rules are kept in segregation under a highly restrictive regime. Prisoners in the SHU spend more time locked in their cell than the general prison population, are only allowed out for limited amounts of time and must be transported to/from their cell wearing handcuffs. Handcuffs are restraint devices designed to secure an individual's Wrists close together Depending on the circumstances, an inmate may spend weeks or even months in the SHU.

The prison’s education department offers GED and ESL programs, as well as courses in parenting skills. General Educational Development (or GED) tests are a group of five tests which (when passed certifies that the taker has American or Canadian High The prison also provides legal and leisure library services in addition to training in the use of various computer software.

There are two Federal Prison Industries UNICOR programs at FCI Dublin: the Textiles and the Call Center. "UNICOR" is the trade name for Federal Prison Industries (also referred to as "FPI" A call centre or call center (see spelling differences) is a centralized office used for the purpose of receiving and transmitting a large volume of requests by Textiles employs approximately 150 inmates on the manufacture of custom draperies, parachutes, and disaster blankets. A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag. They also sort and repair USPS mailbags. The Call Center employs around 250 inmates on directory assistance enquiries.

FCI Dublin is surrounded by two separate fences with a gap of approximately 10 feet between them. Measuring 14 feet high, each chain-link fence is reinforced with multiple coils of razor wire (at the top and bottom) plus electronic sensors to detect escape attempts. A chain-link fence or wire netting or chain-wire fence is a type of Woven Fence usually made from galvanized or LLDPE -coated Barbed tape or Razor Wire is a mesh of metal strips with sharp edges whose purpose is to prevent passage by humans

The institution also has an adjacent administrative detention facility housing adult males on holdover or pre-trial status, and a minimum security satellite camp housing adult female offenders, which opened in 1990.

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