Facility Name: | FCI Seagoville |
Facility Type: | Federal Prison |
Address: | 2113 NORTH HWY 175 SEAGOVILLE, TX, 75159 |
Phone: | 972-287-2911 |
Email: | SEA/[email protected] |
Capacity: | 2042 |
Date Established: | 1932 |
Offender Gender: | Male Offenders |
Security Level: | FCI – Low, Camp – Minimum |
BOP Region: | South Central Region |
Judicial District: | Northern Texas |
City: | Seagoville |
Postal Code: | 75159 |
State: | Texas |
County: | Dallas |
Official Website: | https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/sea/ |
FCI Seagoville is commonly referred to as the Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville. The facility is a low-security federal prison in Texas. The FCI Seagoville is home to male inmates. The prison is operated and managed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Adjacent to the FCI Seagoville is a minimum-security satellite prison camp. There is also a detention center. The satellite prison camp and the detention center are home to male inmates.
On October 10, 1940, the Federal Reformatory for Women opened their doors. The Federal Reformatory for Women was what we call now FCI Seagoville. Back in the 40s, the facility was converted into a center for the Federal Detention Station. The facility was monitored by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It was housing Germans, Italians, and Japanese descent people that were being classified as “enemy aliens.” It was not until June 1945 when the facility finally shut their doors.
It was not until after the end of World War II that the facility transferred over to a minimum-security federal prison. In 1969, the facility was only housing young male inmates that were sentenced with the Youth Corrections Act. During this time the maximum age of the inmates was 27 years old.
10 years later in 1979, the prison converted into a Federal Prison Camp. Two years later in 1981, they installed a perimeter fence and then converted itself into the Federal Correctional Institution. The Federal Detention Center opened their doors in 1996.
FCI Seagoville is nearly 11 miles away from Downtown Dallas.
FCI Seagoville is a federal prison. The easiest way to lookup an inmate in federal prisons is going to the BOP website.
They have a database where you can search all federal inmates.
Inmates can receive written letters from their family and friends. These written letters cannot contain any unused stamps, envelopes, and writing paper. These items are for sale at the commissary.
Letters that have lipstick stains, cologne stains, and perfume stains will be discarded upon opening.
The mailing address for inmates in FCI Seagoville is:
Inmate Name and Registration Number
FCI Seagoville
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 9000
Seagoville, TX 75159
The mailing address for inmates in the satellite prison camp is:
FCI Seagoville
Satellite Prison Camp
P.O. Box 9000
Seagoville, TX 75159
You can put money into your inmate's commissary account by Western Union or MoneyGram. Each option you can do online or in person.
You will need to the following information
If you can’t get down to either Western Union or MoneyGram, you can send money directly to their PO box. That information is:
INMATE NAME & REGISTER NUMBER
P.O. Box 474702
Des Moines, Iowa 50947
Do NOT send money to an inmate using the FCI Seagoville address. All funds sent through the mail must be addressed to a processing center in Des Moines, Iowa. This applies to all Federal inmates, regardless of where they are incarcerated.
The last way to stay in touch with an inmate at FCI Seagoville is through email. Email is also through Trulincs.
The email program is funded by the inmate trust fund, which is kept up with purchases from the commissary, the telephone service, and fees paid directly to Trulincs.
Emails are monitored and screened for content not suitable for them.
Your first day in prison, you are bombarded with a ton of information. One booklet you will be giving is the Admissions and Orientation (A&O) Handbook.
This handbook will supply you with general information about the prison itself alongside the prison’s rules, programs, and regulations you will have to follow while you are serving out your sentence.
It will be in your best interest to familiarize yourself with handbook as it is your responsibility to transition smoothly to prison life.
The handbook is in English and in Spanish.
FCI Seagoville Admissions & Orientation Handbook
FCI Seagoville Guía de Admisión y Orientación
FCI Seagoville Detention Center Admissions & Orientation Handbook
FCI Seagoville Detention Center Guía de Admisión y Orientación
FCI Seagoville Camp Admissions & Orientation Handbook
FCI Seagoville Camp Guía de Admisión y Orientación
The commissary was founded in 1930 by the Department of Justice. The Commissary was placed in all Federal Institutions.
The commissary allows inmates to shop for “luxury” items while they are in prison. Funds are typically deposited by their friends, families, and their prison jobs.
Inmates have a spending limit of $360 per month. The commissary is only open on a designated day of the week where they can utilize the shop.
All federal prisons have their commissary list with prices available to the public.
Even when in prison, you may still need legal counsel. There are strict procedures one will have to follow to obtain legal reference materials alongside their legal counsel.
There are also many opportunities to be taken advantage of to afford the proposal of legal documents when behind bars.
All procedures for legal activities can be located here.
To visit an inmate serving time in the FCI Seagoville, you first must be put on their approved list.
When an inmate first comes to the FCI Seagoville, they fill out a visitor form. When they complete their share, a form is mailed off to those individuals who were listed on the visitor form and send it back to the facility. The facility may call and request more background information, if needed.
Visitation hours will vary between the FCI Seagoville, the satellite prison camp, and the detention center.
Please note that the weekday visitation at FCI Seagoville is suspended temporarily. This is due to the renovation that is taking place in the front lobby. Therefore FCI Seagoville is only having visitation on the weekends and holidays.
This will depend on what rank the inmate is. There are three ranks:
Here is the point schedule for visitations:
FCI
LSCI
USP
Monday | 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM;;8:30 AM - 3:00 PM |
Tuesday | |
Wednesday | |
Thursday | |
Friday | 2:30 PM - 8:30 PM;;8:30 AM - 3:00 PM |
Saturday | 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM;8:30 AM - 3:00 PM;8:30 AM - 3:00 PM |
Sunday | 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM;8:30 AM - 3:00 PM;8:30 AM - 3:00 PM |
Holiday | 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM;8:30 AM - 3:00 PM; |
The visiting starts in first in, first out type of fashion. No new visitors will be allowed in 45 minutes before the end of the visit day. 45 minutes before the end of the visit day officers start escorting those who were first in out of the visitor room.
Refer the map below to find the driving directions
Inmates housed in the FCI Seagoville are housing in either two-person cells, three-person cells, or five-person cells. All inmates will end up sharing their cell with their fellow inmates.
Inmates in the satellite prison camp are kept in dormitories. While inmates in the detention center are in two-person cells.
Inmates at the FCI Seagoville have a wide variety of programs and services they can partake in. These programs and services include the following:
• Medical Services
• Psychology Services
• Religious Services
• Commissary
• Library Services
• Recreational Program
• GED Prep
• English as a Second Language Program
• Residential Drug Abuse Program
• Drug Education Program
• Non-Residential Drug Abuse Program
• Adult Continuing Education
• Parenting Program
• Advanced Occupational Education
• UNICOR Factory
The Residential Drug Abuse Program is not available in the satellite prison camp nor the detention center. It is only available in the FCI Seagoville.