The Federal Correctional Institution, Lompoc II is a low (formerly also a high, and then medium) security United States

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for male inmates in

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. It is part of the Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex (FCC Lompoc) and is operated by the

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, a division of the

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. The facility also has a satellite prison camp for minimum-security male inmates. It was formerly a military disciplinary barracks on Camp Cooke. FCC Lompoc is located within the city of

Lompoc Lompoc ( ; Chumashan ) is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Located on the Central Coast, its population was 43,834 as of July 2021. Lompoc has been inhabited for thousands of years by the Chumash people, who called t ...

, northwest of Los Angeles, adjacent to

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. The complex also includes a second Federal Correctional Institution (in addition to the satellite prison camp).

Facility

The FCI (Low) has a Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) There are two minimum security prison camps that also house adult male inmates.

Notable inmates

Current

Former

COVID-19 pandemic

A deadly

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outbreak swept through the federal correctional complex in 2020. It included several dozen staff members, including correctional officers.

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1959 establishments in California Prisons completed in the 1950s