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Location |
New Chester,
Adams County, near Oxford, Wisconsin |
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Status | Operational |
Security class | Medium-security (with minimum-security prison camp) |
Population | 1,000 (200 in prison camp) |
Managed by | Federal Bureau of Prisons |
The Federal Correctional Institution, Oxford (FCI Oxford) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Wisconsin. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security male offenders.
FCI Oxford is located in Adams County, in central Wisconsin, 60 miles north of Madison, the state capital. [1]
On June 21, 2011, Timothy Washington (15022-047), a 48-year-old inmate serving a sentence for drug trafficking, stabbed another inmate with a homemade prison weapon known as a shank. The victim suffered 16 stab wounds, but survived the assault. Washington pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon in February 2012 and was sentenced to an additional 33 months in prison. [2] He was transferred to USP Terre Haute and was released on February 16, 2021. [3]
Inmate name | Register number | Photo | Status | Details |
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Dan Rostenkowski | 25338-016 | Released in 1997 after serving 17 months; pardoned in 2000 by President Bill Clinton. [4] | Former Illinois Congressman and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee; arrested in connection with the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal; pleaded guilty to mail fraud in 1996 for using federal money to pay for personal favors and gifts. [5] [6] | |
George Papadopoulos | 91344-083 | Released on December 7, 2018, after serving 12 days of a 14-day sentence. [7] [8] | Pleaded guilty to making a false statement to FBI investigators, a felony. [9] |