USP Pollock is the high-security penitentiary anchoring the Federal Correctional Complex in Grant Parish, Louisiana, about 15 miles north of Alexandria. It opened in 2000 after construction that began in the late 1990s, making it the original facility around which the rest of the Pollock complex was later built. As a high-security institution, it houses male inmates who require the most restrictive level of confinement within the federal system, and it also has a minimum-security satellite camp attached for lower-risk offenders. Its opening came during a period when the Bureau of Prisons was expanding aggressively to keep pace with a rapidly growing federal inmate population through the 1990s, and Pollock became one of several new complexes built in the rural South during that wave of construction. There isn't a dramatic backstory tied to its founding beyond that broader expansion effort — it was purpose-built as a modern high-security penitentiary rather than converted from an older structure. For families, it's worth remembering that USP Pollock's security level means stricter visitation and communication rules than at the medium-security FCI next door, so confirming the exact facility a loved one is housed at matters here more than most.