The Federal Correctional Institution, Manchester (FCI Manchester) is a medium-security United States

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for male inmates in unincorporated

Clay County, Kentucky Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 20,345. Clay County is included in the Corbin, Kentucky micropolitan area. . Its county seat is Manchester. The county was forme ...

. It is operated by the

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, a division of the

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. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp for minimum-security male offenders. FCI Manchester is located in eastern Kentucky, approximately south of Lexington, the state's second-largest city.

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In August 2009, Jeff Smith, then a Missouri state senator, pleaded guilty to two counts of

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and resigned his seat. Smith was subsequently sentenced to one year in federal prison and served eight months at FCI Manchester. The business magazine '' Inc.'' published an article written by Smith on its website in which Smith described his experience at the prison:

It was my first week in a federal prison, and I was beginning to see that it was far more nuanced than the hotbed of sex, drugs, and violence depicted on television documentaries. It was teeming with ambitious, street-smart men, many who appear to have been very successful drug dealers on the outside, and some of whom possess business instincts as sharp as those of the CEOs who wined and dined me six months before.

Notable inmates (current and former)

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{{Federal Bureau of Prisons Buildings and structures in Clay County, Kentucky

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

Prisons in Kentucky

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Notable inmates (current and former)

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