FCI Florence is the medium-security institution within the larger Florence federal correctional complex in Fremont County, Colorado, roughly 100 miles south of Denver. It opened in 1993, with an adjoining minimum-security satellite camp added the following year to handle lower-classification inmates on the same grounds. Today the main institution houses somewhere around 950 to 1,000 men, with a few hundred more in the camp. Unlike its more famous neighbors on the same complex — the high-security USP and the ADX supermax, both of which draw national media attention for holding some of the country's highest-profile inmates — FCI Florence itself functions as a fairly ordinary medium-security prison, offering standard educational, vocational, and reentry programming along with routine medical and mental health services. Its location amid several other federal prisons means the surrounding area is essentially built around the corrections industry, with the complex being one of the largest employers in the county. For families, the most important thing to keep straight is that "Florence" describes several separate prisons on one property, so knowing that a loved one is specifically at the FCI, and not the USP or ADX next door, matters for visiting and correspondence.