FCI Hazelton is the medium-security institution within the Hazelton Federal Correctional Complex in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, in the hilly northern part of the state. It opened in 2015, several years after its higher-security neighbor USP Hazelton, which had opened back in 2004, and it was built specifically to add medium-security and female housing capacity to what had previously been a single high-security site. Today FCI Hazelton houses a substantial population of male inmates, with total figures across the complex's medium-security and attached facilities running well into the thousands when combined with the associated Secure Female Facility built around the same time. Because it shares a campus with the higher-security USP, which has generated significant press coverage over the years for violent incidents, FCI Hazelton itself is sometimes conflated with its more notorious neighbor, even though it operates as a distinct, lower-security institution with its own housing units and supervision level. For families, it's worth confirming a loved one's exact designation, since "Hazelton" on its own refers to a multi-facility complex, and the medium-security FCI is a meaningfully different environment than the high-security penitentiary next door.