FCI Texarkana is a low-security federal prison for men located in Bowie County, Texas, right near the Arkansas border. It opened in 1940, making it one of the older institutions in the federal system, and it has an attached minimum-security satellite camp. All told it houses just over 1,200 inmates between the main facility and the camp. One of its more offbeat historical footnotes: in 2012, an inmate there named Keith Judd, serving time for extortion, filed paperwork to run for president and actually got his name on the ballot for the West Virginia Democratic primary, drawing national media attention as an unusual example of someone campaigning for office from behind bars. Outside of that curiosity, Texarkana has functioned as a fairly standard low-security institution for over 80 years, serving the northeast Texas and Ark-La-Tex region. For families, its location is relatively rural but sits right at a metro area, since Texarkana straddles the Texas-Arkansas line, which can make travel somewhat more manageable than some of the more remote federal facilities.