The Federal Correctional Institution, Three Rivers (FCI Three Rivers) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Live Oak County, Texas. It is operated by Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp which houses minimum-security male offenders.
FCI Three Rivers is approximately south of San Antonio and northwest of Corpus Christi.
Notable incidents
In 2008, a riot occurred between members of rival prison gangs at FCI Three Rivers which left 22 prisoners injured and one dead. Fifteen of the injured were transported to hospitals in Corpus Christi and San Antonio. The deceased inmate was identified as 40-year-old Servando Rodriguez of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Sources at the prison told the San Antonio Express-News that one gang consisted of American-born Chicanos and the other of Mexican citizens known as "Paisas."Contreras, Guillermo, Robert Crowe, and Sara Ines Calderon. "Gang riot at Three Rivers prison leaves inmate dead." San Antonio Express-News at the Houston Chronicle. March 28, 2008. Retrieved on December 12, 2010.
Between 2012 and 2014, Joel Gonzalez, a corrections officer at the prison, smuggled in contraband in exchange for bribe money from the family of an inmate. His wife, Lisa Gonzalez, assisted in arranging times and places for the exchange of the cash and contraband goods; she worked at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice at the time. They each pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in 2014, and they were sentenced to, respectively, 24 months and 10 months in federal prison in November of that year.
Notable inmates (current and former) Inmate NameRegister NumberStatusDetails Barrett Brown 45047-177 Served a 63-month sentence; released May 25, 2017. Journalist associated with the computer hacking group Anonymous and founder of Project PM, an unofficial watchdog for the surveillance industry; pleaded guilty in 2014 to posting a video threatening an FBI Agent and disclosing details regarding an upcoming search warrant execution. Michael Center 282214-480 Served a 6-month sentence; released on October 4, 2020.Charged with connection to the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. Russell DeBusk 25730-001 Transferred to state prison in 2012 after serving 5 years. Former student at Birmingham-Southern College; pleaded guilty in 2006 to conspiring to commit civil rights violations and arson in connection with setting fires at nine black churches in Alabama in 2006; two accomplices were also sentenced to prison.
See also
List of U.S. federal prisons Federal Bureau of Prisons Incarceration in the United States
References
External links
"FCI Three Rivers." Federal Bureau of Prisons.