USP Canaan is a high-security federal penitentiary in Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles east of Scranton. It opened in March 2005 and was purpose-built as a modern penitentiary, with six V-shaped housing units arranged around a central yard and tower, designed to hold just over a thousand male inmates. Because it's a high-security facility, the men housed there generally have longer sentences or more serious offense histories than at a camp or low-security prison, and the environment reflects that with tighter movement controls and more structured programming. Canaan has had a rougher operational history than some of its peers — several inmate-on-inmate homicides have occurred there since it opened, and in 2011 the facility was the site of one of the largest documented salmonella outbreaks inside a prison, sickening hundreds of inmates and staff after a contaminated food service incident. There's also an adjacent satellite camp for lower-security inmates on the same grounds. For families, it's worth understanding that a high-security penitentiary like Canaan operates very differently day-to-day than a camp, with stricter visitation and communication procedures.