FPC Yankton is a minimum-security federal prison camp in Yankton, South Dakota, with a genuinely unusual history: it occupies the former campus of Yankton College, a private liberal arts school that operated from 1881 until it closed in 1984. The Bureau of Prisons took over the site and opened the camp there in 1988, converting old college dormitories and academic buildings into inmate housing and program space rather than constructing a typical prison from scratch, which gives the facility an atmosphere different from most federal camps. It's a standalone, fenceless camp housing several hundred male inmates who are considered lower risk. Fitting with its collegiate roots, Yankton has leaned into education and vocational training, offering things like an associate's degree program in fields such as business, accounting, and horticulture, college courses through a local university, and more than a dozen apprenticeship tracks alongside standard First Step Act programming. For families, it's worth knowing that because it's a camp with no perimeter fence, security and visiting procedures tend to be more relaxed than at higher-security BOP facilities, though inmates can still be transferred out for rule violations.