FCI Allenwood Medium sits near White Deer, Pennsylvania, as the medium-security piece of the three-institution Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex in Union County, about 75 miles north of Harrisburg. It opened in 1992, the same year as its low-security counterpart, as the Bureau of Prisons built out the site beyond the original minimum-security camp that had operated there since the early 1950s on the grounds of a former World War II POW camp. As the middle tier of the complex, it holds male inmates who need more structure and oversight than the low-security population next door but don't meet the criteria for the high-security penitentiary that opened on the same campus in 1993. Housing here is typically laid out in more traditional cell-block units rather than the dormitory-style housing common at lower-security camps. The complex as a whole has held a range of notable inmates over the decades, including figures connected to the Watergate scandal in the facility's early camp years. Families should keep in mind that Allenwood is really a cluster of separate institutions on one property, so it's worth confirming that mail, visitation, and phone accounts are set up for the medium-security unit specifically.