| Prison Name: | Federal Correctional Institution, Three Rivers |
| Location: | Live Oak County, near Three Rivers, Texas |
| Status: | Operational |
| Classification: | Medium-security (with minimum-security prison camp) |
| Population: | 1,147 (187 in prison camp) |
| Managed By: | Federal Bureau of Prisons |
| Warden: | Ralph Hanson |
The Federal Correctional Institution, Three Rivers (FCI Three Rivers) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Live Oak County, Texas.[1] It is operated by Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp which houses minimum-security male offenders.
FCI Three Rivers is approximately 80miles south of San Antonio and 73miles northwest of Corpus Christi.[2]
In 2008, a riot occurred between members of rival prison gangs at FCI Three Rivers which left 22 prisoners injured and one dead. Fifteen of the injured were transported to hospitals in Corpus Christi and San Antonio. The deceased inmate was identified as 40-year-old Servando Rodriguez of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Sources at the prison told the San Antonio Express-News that one gang consisted of American-born Chicanos and the other of Mexican citizens known as "Paisas."[3]
A former U.S. Bureau of Prisons correctional officer and his wife were sentenced Wednesday to federal prison for accepting bribes from the family of an inmate in exchange for taking contraband into the Federal Correction Institution in Three Rivers.
According to the Department of Justice, Joel Gonzalez admitted that from December 2012 through April 2014 he made plans to smuggle tobacco and other contraband into the FCI in exchange for cash.
His wife, Lisa Gonzalez, reportedly assisted him by arranging times and locations for receiving the contraband and the bribe payments. The DOJ said Lisa Gonzalez, who was employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice during the scheme, traveled with her husband to Laredo to accept the items. Joel Gonzalez would then smuggle them into the FCI on his body, the DOJ said.
Joel Gonzalez was sentenced to 24 months in prison, while his wife was ordered to serve 10 months. The couple was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following completion of their prison sentences.[4]
| width=11% | Inmate Name | width=8% | Register Number | width=22% | Status | width=59% | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrett Brown | 45047-177 | Served a 63-month sentence; released May 25, 2017.[5] | Journalist associated with the computer hacking group Anonymous and founder of Project PM, an unofficial watchdog for the surveillance industry; pleaded guilty in 2014 to posting a video threatening an FBI Agent and disclosing details regarding an upcoming search warrant execution.[6] [7] [8] | ||||
| Michael Center | 282214-480 | Served a 6-month sentence; released on October 4, 2020.[9] | Charged with connection to the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. | ||||
| Russell DeBusk | 25730-001 | Transferred to state prison in 2012 after serving 5 years.[10] | Former student at Birmingham-Southern College; pleaded guilty in 2006 to conspiring to commit civil rights violations and arson in connection with setting fires at nine black churches in Alabama in 2006; two accomplices were also sentenced to prison.[11] [12] |