Federal Correctional Complex, Oakdale Explained

The Federal Correctional Complex, Oakdale (FCC Oakdale) is a United States federal prison complex for male inmates in Louisiana. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice, and consists of two main facilities:

• The Federal Correctional Institution, Oakdale (FCI Oakdale): houses low-security male inmates.
• The Federal Detention Center, Oakdale (FDC Oakdale): an administrative facility housing male pre-trial and holdover inmates. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum-security male inmates.^[1]

FCC Oakdale is located in central Louisiana, 35miles south of Alexandria and 58miles north of Lake Charles.

Notable prisoners

• Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers was serving a 25-year sentence at FCC Oakdale for his involvement in the accounting scandal that toppled that company, but was released in 2019.^[2]
• Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards served over eight years of a ten-year sentence for his involvement in a 2000 riverboat gambling racketeering case.
• Former Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama was serving a seven-year sentence but was released in 2008 pending appeal.^[3]
• Andrew Fastow, the former Chief Financial Officer for Enron Corporation, served six years and was released in 2011.^[4]
• Former New Orleans city councilman Oliver Thomas served a 37-month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to accepting bribes, served the duration of his sentence at the Oakdale complex.^[5]
• Patrick Jones, a 47-year old inmate at the prison in became the first fatality of COVID-19 in a federal prison on March 29, 2020. Five other inmates were also infected.^[6]

See also

• List of U.S. federal prisons
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Incarceration in the United States

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/oax/index.jsp
2. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/092706-ebbers-prison.html For Webber, Oakdale is no Place Like Home
3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032804006.html Around the Nation - washingtonpost.com
4. Andrew S. Fastow, inmate # 14343-179, Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Department of Justice, at http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Andrew&Middle=&LastName=Fastow&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=91&y=19.
5. http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/former_new_orleans_city_counci.html Former New Orleans city councilman Oliver Thomas transferred to prison in Louisiana
6. https://news.yahoo.com/inmate-dies-contracting-coronavirus-louisiana-150800571.html Inmate dies after contracting coronavirus at Louisiana federal prison| by Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 29 Mar 2020