The Federal Correctional Institution, Elkton (FCI Elkton) is a low-security United States

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for male inmates near

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. It is operated by the

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, a division of the

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. It also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses low and minimum-security male inmates. It is located in Elkrun Township,

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. FCI Elkton is located in central Columbiana County, Ohio and is 45 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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In 2010, a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, charged FCI Elkton inmate William J. Platz, age 61, with drawing and distributing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct to another inmate between August 2007 and April 2008. Platz was already serving an 11-year sentence for a

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conviction in 2000 and was a co-conspirator with

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. Rosser was an

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until his capture in 2001. Platz subsequently pleaded guilty and was sentenced to additional prison time, which he served at the

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, a low-security facility in Texas. He was released in 2016.

Notable inmates (current and former)

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Notable inmates (current and former)

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