FPC Morgantown sits in Morgantown, West Virginia, and has a longer history than most federal prison camps: the property was dedicated in December 1968 by Senator Ted Kennedy as the Robert F. Kennedy Youth Center, and the institution opened in 1969. It was actually a pioneer in Bureau of Prisons philosophy, serving as one of the earliest test sites for "unit management," a model that broke inmates into smaller groups of 50-200 overseen by dedicated multidisciplinary staff teams handling counseling, programming, and religious services rather than one large undifferentiated population. Over the decades it became a minimum-security camp for male, mostly nonviolent and white-collar offenders, and its relatively comfortable campus-style grounds, complete with a movie theater, bocce court, and basketball court, earned it the informal nickname "Club Fed." In December 2024, the Bureau of Prisons announced it would deactivate Morgantown as part of a broader nationwide realignment tied to staffing shortages and aging infrastructure, with roughly 166 inmates transferred elsewhere and about 150 staff reassigned. Families should confirm current operational status directly with the BOP.