FCI Edgefield Medium and Satellite Camp

You can support your loved ones at FCI Edgefield on InmateAid, if you have any immediate questions contact the facility directly at 803-637-1500.

When a loved one is in federal prison, they need more than just visits or calls due to their generally longer sentences. This webpage offers insights into FCI Edgefield procedures, helping you provide the best support possible. From sending magazines to exploring distance learning options, this guide has all you need to assist your loved one effectively.

The Federal Correctional Institution, Edgefield (FCI Edgefield) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in South Carolina. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp for minimum-security male offenders which houses about 550 inmates. FCI Edgefield is located near the South Carolina-Georgia border, approximately 25 miles north of Augusta, Georgia.

Inmates at FCI Edgefield are housed in two-person cells. There are a total of six housing units. Inmates at Edgefield Camp are housed in dormitories, that are divided into two-person pods. The Camp is for male offenders with shorter sentences and is operated by the BOP to carry out sentences handed down by US District Courts.

FCI Edgefield provides medical and dental sick call, emergency treatment, special housing unit sick call, prescription medications (over-the-counter medications like aspirin, and ibuprofen are available through the commissary), voluntary HIV testing, and dental and eye care. Inmates must submit a sick call form to be evaluated for routine health care needs. Emergency medical care is available 24 hours a day.

The facility offers brief counseling, group treatment, Anger Management, Stress Management, and Criminal Thinking, as well as other programs. Notices of upcoming treatment offerings are posted in inmate housing units. Inmates must submit a cop-out in order to request program placement.

FCI Edgefield does not house a Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP). The camp houses a Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP). Both facilities also offer a Drug Education Program and the Non-Residential Drug Abuse Program (NR-DAP).

Inmates are interviewed by an Education representative upon arrival at FCI Edgefield to determine what type of educational programming is appropriate. Both facilities offer literary, GED, English-as-a-Second Language (ESL), parenting, and Adult Continuing Education (ACE) programs. High school diplomas and post-secondary programs are available through paid correspondence programs.

Advanced Occupational Education: Both FCI Edgefield offers advanced occupational education in Culinary Arts, ServeSafe, and General Services Automotive Technician.

Apprenticeship: FCI Edgefield offers an apprenticeship in Culinary Arts.

Library Services: FCI Edgefield offers a leisure and law library. In the leisure library, inmates can check out fiction and nonfiction books, newspapers, and magazines. The law library offers typewriters, a copy machine, and the TRULINCS Electronic Law Library. Both libraries are open six days a week.

UNICOR restores lives by being a thriving corrections program that provides marketable skills and qualifications for inmates to succeed as productive citizens in our communities. and also to maintain and develop meaningful work and job training opportunities to prepare inmates to become law-abiding citizens. The FCI Edgefield UNICOR facility produces clothing and textiles.

A monthly spending limit of $360.00 is imposed. Once each week, prisoners can visit the commissary. Here is the list and prices of items sold at the commissary in FCI and the Camp. The housing units shop on a rotating basis. The rotation schedule is based on inmates’ registration numbers and is posted in the Commissary and all housing units. Inmates must have funds in their accounts to purchase goods. Stamps, Nicoderm, over-the-counter medications, and special purchase items are exempt from the spending limit.

Recreation Services: Recreation programs at FCI Edgefield include indoor and outdoor activities ranging from individualized arts and crafts programs to intramural team sports such as softball, basketball, volleyball, and soccer. The institution’s Recreation Departments are open seven days a week.

Notable inmates include Christopher Coke, a drug kingpin, who was the leader of the Shower Posse, which was a violent drug gang based out of Jamaica. Coke was extradited to the United States after a 3-day search, where 74 people were killed. Coke pleaded guilty to smuggling large amounts of cocaine into the United States and was sentenced to 23 years. Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela was the co-founder of the now-defunct Cali Cartel, which was responsible for as much as 80% of the cocaine brought into the US in the 1970s and 1980s; co-founder Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela is also serving a 30-year sentence. Abdulwali Muse a Somali pirate leader; pleaded guilty to hijacking in 2010 for leading a group who seized the Merchant Vessel Maersk Alabama and took the captain, Richard Phillips hostage for ransom and is now serving a 33-year sentence. Muse was the antagonist in the movie Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks. Thomas Noe a Republican party fundraiser; pleaded guilty in 2006 to money laundering for illegally funneling money to President George W. Bush's 2004 campaign serving an 18-year sentence. Quazi Nafis a Bangladeshi citizen; pleaded guilty in 2013 to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction for attempting to detonate what he thought was an 800-pound bomb outside the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City currently serving a 30-year sentence.