FCI Edgefield is a medium-security federal prison in Edgefield County, South Carolina, roughly 25 miles north of Augusta, Georgia, that opened in 1998. It houses male inmates and includes an adjacent minimum-security satellite camp, with the combined complex holding close to 1,700 people. As a newer-generation federal prison, Edgefield offers a range of vocational and educational programming, and its camp runs a Residential Drug and Alcohol Program (RDAP) aimed at helping inmates with substance dependency work toward earlier release eligibility. Over the years the institution has drawn some negative attention from staff corruption cases, including officers who were prosecuted in the early 2000s and again around 2010 for accepting bribes to smuggle contraband and drugs to inmates — a reminder that, like many facilities, its day-to-day environment has been shaped as much by staffing issues as by the inmates themselves. Edgefield has also held a range of notable offenders over time, from drug traffickers to people convicted of piracy and terrorism-related charges. For families, it's a fairly typical modern medium-security institution with the programming options that come with that classification, situated in a rural part of the state near the Georgia border.