FCI Pekin, in Pekin, Illinois, opened in 1994 as a medium-security institution with an adjoining minimum-security satellite camp, and its arrival wasn't entirely welcomed locally. In the years before it opened, the town held a public advisory vote on accepting a federal prison, and it passed by a razor-thin margin; the mayor and council members who ultimately supported the project faced real political backlash afterward, with some losing their next election over the decision. Once open, the institution settled into a more typical operating history: the satellite camp actually housed female inmates for its early years before switching to a male population in 2011 so the Bureau could dedicate more space system-wide to in-house drug treatment programming for men. Today FCI Pekin holds just over 1,200 inmates combined between the main medium-security institution and its camp. For families, Pekin represents a fairly standard mid-sized Midwestern federal institution, notable mainly for the contentious local debate that preceded its construction rather than any major incidents since it opened.