FCI Yazoo City Medium is a medium-security federal prison for men and part of the broader Yazoo City correctional complex located about 36 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi. It opened in 2005, roughly eight years after the original low-security institution on the same grounds began operating, as the Bureau of Prisons continued expanding the complex to cover more security levels in one location; a high-security penitentiary was later added in 2014 to complete the site. As a medium-security facility, it generally holds inmates who need a higher degree of supervision and more structured programming than those at the adjacent low-security units, but who don't require the tightest security level found at the complex's penitentiary. Its construction reflects the steady growth of the federal inmate population in the 2000s and the Bureau's strategy of clustering multiple security levels together to make transfers and administration more efficient. For families, it's worth confirming that correspondence and visitation paperwork are addressed specifically to the Medium facility, since Yazoo City is home to several separately run institutions sharing a similar name and location.