Federal prison lockdowns

Suspensions running 4 facilities are showing a visiting suspension right now.

I check every facility's status against the BOP's own data every five minutes. This page is the whole record in one place: what is suspended right now, what was suspended on any given day, and how long each one ran. The per facility pages carry the same thing one place at a time.

Two things worth knowing before you read it. The BOP under-reports, so a day showing nothing is their claim rather than a promise. And some of these were reported by families first and only later showed up in the BOP's data, which is marked on every entry.

Citing this? How the data is collected: the source, the five-minute interval, why every timestamp lands on the hour, how family reports are handled, and what the record cannot tell you.

Since monitoring started

Suspended right now: 4
Suspensions on record: 19
Facilities affected: 13
Longest on record: 13 days

Longest was FCI Ray Brook, Aug 4, 2026 to Aug 17, 2026. The most facilities suspended on one day was 5 on Sep 5, 2026.

Day by day

How many facilities were showing a visiting suspension on each day, a month at a time. The record starts on July 25, 2026.

August 2026

Facilities showing a visiting suspension on each day of August 2026. Every day links to what was suspended that day.
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1 3 August 1: 3 of 209 facilities
2 2 August 2: 2 of 209 facilities	3 2 August 3: 2 of 209 facilities	4 4 August 4: 4 of 209 facilities	5 2 August 5: 2 of 209 facilities	6 2 August 6: 2 of 209 facilities	7 3 August 7: 3 of 209 facilities	8 2 August 8: 2 of 209 facilities
9 1 August 9: 1 of 209 facilities	10 1 August 10: 1 of 209 facilities	11 1 August 11: 1 of 209 facilities	12 1 August 12: 1 of 209 facilities	13 1 August 13: 1 of 209 facilities	14 2 August 14: 2 of 209 facilities	15 2 August 15: 2 of 209 facilities
16 1 August 16: 1 of 209 facilities	17 1 August 17: 1 of 209 facilities	18 0 August 18: none	19 0 August 19: none	20 1 August 20: 1 of 209 facilities	21 1 August 21: 1 of 209 facilities	22 1 August 22: 1 of 209 facilities
23 0 August 23: none	24 0 August 24: none	25 0 August 25: none	26 0 August 26: none	27 2 August 27: 2 of 209 facilities	28 3 August 28: 3 of 209 facilities	29 3 August 29: 3 of 209 facilities
30 2 August 30: 2 of 209 facilities	31 2 August 31: 2 of 209 facilities

Every suspension on record

September 2026

FCI Tallahassee Detention Center (FL)

FDC · Sep 6, 2026 to ongoing · 14 hours · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

FCI Englewood (CO)

Main facility · Sep 5, 2026 to Sep 5, 2026 · 9 hours · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

FCI Victorville Medium I (CA)

Main facility · Sep 3, 2026 to ongoing · 3 days · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

FCI Otisville (NY)

Main facility · Sep 2, 2026 to Sep 6, 2026 · 4 days · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

FCI Tucson Detention Center (AZ)

FDC · Sep 1, 2026 to Sep 1, 2026 · under an hour · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

August 2026

USP Hazelton (WV)

Main facility · Aug 28, 2026 to Aug 29, 2026 · 26 hours · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

FCI Jesup (GA)

Main facility · Aug 27, 2026 to ongoing · 10 days · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

FCI Greenville (IL)

Main facility · Aug 27, 2026 to ongoing · 10 days · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

FCI Tallahassee Detention Center (FL)

FDC · Aug 22, 2026 to Aug 22, 2026 · 5 hours · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

USP Florence ADMAX (CO)

Facility-wide · Aug 20, 2026 to Aug 21, 2026 · 25 hours · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

USP Hazelton (WV)

Facility-wide · Aug 14, 2026 to Aug 15, 2026 · 27 hours · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

USP Hazelton (WV)

Facility-wide · Aug 8, 2026 to Aug 8, 2026 · 1 hour · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

USP Hazelton (WV)

Facility-wide · Aug 7, 2026 to Aug 8, 2026 · 20 hours · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

MCC San Diego (CA)

Main facility · Aug 6, 2026 to Aug 7, 2026 · 26 hours · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

FDC Miami (FL)

Facility-wide · Aug 4, 2026 to Aug 4, 2026 · 3 hours · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

FCI Ray Brook (NY)

Facility-wide · Aug 4, 2026 to Aug 17, 2026 · 13 days · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

USP Hazelton (WV)

Facility-wide · Aug 1, 2026 to Aug 1, 2026 · 8 hours · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

FCI Tallahassee Detention Center (FL)

FDC · Aug 1, 2026 to Aug 4, 2026 · 4 days · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

July 2026

FCI Beaumont Low Camp (TX)

Camp · Jul 25, 2026 to Aug 5, 2026 · 11 days · BOP data

Visiting Suspended

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