The Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute (FCC Terre Haute) is a United States

federal prison A federal prison is operated under the jurisdiction of a federal government as opposed to a state or provincial body. Federal prisons are used for people who violated federal law (U.S., Mexico), people considered dangerous (Brazil), or those sen ...

complex for male inmates in

Terre Haute, Indiana Terre Haute ( ) is a city in Vigo County, Indiana, United States, and its county seat. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 58,389 and Terre Haute metropolitan area, its metropolitan area had a populati ...

. It is operated by the

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, a division of the

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, and consists of two facilities: * Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute (FCI Terre Haute): Established in 1940, it is a medium-security facility with a Communications Management Unit which holds inmates who are deemed to require increased monitoring of communications with others. *

United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute The United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute (USP Terre Haute) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Terre Haute, Indiana. It is part of the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute (FCC Terre Haute) and is operated ...

(USP Terre Haute): Established in 2005, it is a high-security facility which holds federal death row for men and also has a prison camp for minimum-security male offenders.

Special Confinement Unit

United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute uses a Special Confinement Unit to separate federal male death sentenced inmates. Male inmates are transferred from other facilities, like state and federal prisons, for engagement in the Special Confinement Unit. USP Terre Haute opened the Special Confinement Unit on July 13, 1999.

Segregated housing

Inmates considered high risk are immediately placed in a secure wing with more rules and supervision. These prisons are restricted segregation, which involves a twenty-three hour cell lock in, usually in

solitary confinement Solitary confinement (also shortened to solitary) is a form of imprisonment in which an incarcerated person lives in a single Prison cell, cell with little or no contact with other people. It is a punitive tool used within the prison system to ...

. Inmates are allowed a thirty minute lunch and thirty minutes of yard time.

History

Gonorrhea experiments

The

Terre Haute prison experiments The Terre Haute prison experiments were conducted by John Charles Cutler, Dr. John C. Cutler in 1943 and 1944 under John Friend Mahoney, Dr. John F. Mahoney, the head of the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory of the United States Public Health S ...

in 1943 and 1944 were the precursor to the Syphilis experiments in Guatemala. In 1942, the sixth

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, Thomas Parran, Jr., endorsed medical experiments on STD transmission so long as volunteers were found to be exposed to infection. In 1943, a decision was made to use prisoners as volunteers, as soldiers could not be guaranteed sexual abstinence for six months, and the mentally ill were not considered appropriate research subjects. Due to legal issues, the Army Medical Corps preferred federal prisons to state run institutions, and Terre Haute had the best medical facilities. Prisoners participated with consent, receiving $100 for their involvement. A 2011 US Bioethics report states: The infection methods used by doctors did not involve natural sexual intercourse, unlike in 1947 in the Syphilis experiments in Guatemala. Dr.

John Charles Cutler John Charles Cutler (June 29, 1915 – February 8, 2003) was an American surgeon. He was the acting chief of the venereal disease program in the United States Public Health Service. He is known for leading several controversial and unethical ...

supported the experiment to his death.

Deaths

On September 15, 2010, prisoner Daniel L. Delaney (09416-112) murdered his cellmate while both were in the Special Housing Unit (SHU). Delaney was convicted of

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for the act.Hogsett Announces Conviction of Terre Haute Federal Inmate for First-Degree Murder
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. April 11, 2012. Retrieved on March 29, 2016. He was transferred to

ADX Florence United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (abbreviated as USP Florence ADMAX; commonly known as ADX Florence, Florence Supermax, and the Alcatraz of the Rockies) is a United States federal prison in Fremont County, Colorado, op ...

References

External links

FCC Terre Haute
Official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complexes in the United States Prisons in Indiana Buildings and structures in Terre Haute, Indiana 1940 establishments in Indiana Government buildings completed in 1940