FCI Miami is a low-security federal prison for male inmates that opened in 1976, originally intended as a facility for younger offenders, which is part of why it has a campus-like layout with a lake at the center of the compound, a landscaping feature unique among Bureau of Prisons institutions. Its mission shifted in the late 1970s as Cuban and Haitian immigration into South Florida increased, and the facility was repurposed for a period as an immigration detention site; during the 1980 Mariel boatlift it played a role in housing part of the enormous wave of Cuban refugees that arrived that year, some of whom had criminal histories. In 1992, Hurricane Andrew tore through South Florida and caused major damage to the Miami prison complex, and a separate minimum-security camp was opened that same year next to the main institution as the system rebuilt. Today it functions as a standard low-security compound for male inmates. Its long and varied history, spanning youth corrections, immigration detention, and hurricane recovery, makes it one of the more eventful stories among Florida's federal prisons, even though it now runs as a fairly typical low-security facility.