FCI Pollock is the medium-security institution within the Federal Correctional Complex in Grant Parish, Louisiana, roughly 15 miles north of Alexandria. It's one of the newer additions to the federal system, built between about 2005 and 2007 and activated in 2009, with room for close to 1,900 inmates. It went up alongside the older, high-security USP Pollock as part of the Bureau of Prisons' broader push in the 2000s to expand capacity in response to rising federal incarceration numbers. Because it's a relatively modern facility, it doesn't carry the kind of long, colorful institutional history that some older Depression-era prisons do — its story is really one of steady expansion and modernization of the federal system in rural central Louisiana. The facility currently holds roughly 1,600 male inmates and operates alongside its sister institutions on the Pollock complex. For families, it's worth noting that FCI Pollock is a distinct unit from USP Pollock next door, so double-checking which one a loved one is assigned to matters when planning visits or sending mail, since the two carry different security levels and procedures despite sharing a name and location.