# FCI Pollock (LA)

FCI Pollock (LA) is a medium security Federal Correctional Institution in Pollock, Louisiana. Current status: normal operations. Last checked against the BOP's data on July 28, 2026 at 20:41 UTC.

Other facilities at this complex: [USP Pollock](/resources/facilities/pol-usp-pollock-united-states-penitentiary-louisiana).

Satellite unit on these grounds, covered separately: [FCI Pollock Camp](/resources/facilities/pom-camp-fci-pollock-camp-federal-prison-camp-louisiana).

[Official page on bop.gov →](https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/pom/)

Right now

Last checked just now.

Status comes from the BOP (the federal Bureau of Prisons)'s public data, checked every five minutes. The BOP under-reports disruptions; treat "normal operations" as their claim, not a guarantee.

[Lockdown history & day-by-day status →](/resources/facilities/pom-fci-pollock-federal-correctional-institution-louisiana/lockdowns)

Lockdown alerts

## Know when FCI Pollock locks down.

One email when visiting stops, one when it resumes. Checked every five minutes against the BOP's own data. Free, and unsubscribing is one click.

Quick reference

## The numbers

| Housing (style of living quarters, like cells or dorms) | Unknown |
| Stamp rate (what a stamp trades for on the compound, the currency of federal prison) | Unknown |
| General store markup (the markup on items at a typical inmate-run store) | Unknown |
| Photo limit (whether the mailroom actually counts photos against the limit) | Unknown |
| Photo content rules (how strictly the content of photos is enforced) | Unknown |
| Mail handling (how fast mail gets to inmates, and what gets scanned or rejected) | Unknown |
| Visiting hours (when visits happen here, and any booking quirks) | Unknown |

The guide

## How medium facilities generally run.

**Fair warning:** I don't have a facility-specific guide for FCI Pollock yet. What follows is the honest general version for its security level, which covers most of what matters. The local quirks live in [the facility support groups](/resources/support-groups).

Mediums are where the generic advice starts to run out, and I will be straight with you about that. Two mediums with the same designation on paper can run on completely different cultures: one quiet and programmed, another political in ways that change the daily calculus of everything from the TV room to the chow (the cafeteria) line. Structurally you can expect cell housing, controlled movement (you can only move in scheduled windows), longer sentences, and a yard (the rec area, or the whole compound) where social geography matters.

The mechanics still work the same as everywhere: counts (the daily headcount where everything stops), commissary (the prison store), stamps (the inmate currency) as currency, program waitlists, FSA credits (time off earned through programming) for those who qualify. What changes is the margin for error. At a medium, the advice "keep to yourself and do your program" stops being a platitude and becomes an actual daily discipline.

For families: expect stricter visiting procedure, slower mail (paper letters, opened and screened), and more lockdown (everyone confined, movement stopped) days that eat scheduled visits without notice. Do not read a week of silence as catastrophe. The boring explanation, a lockdown or a broken phone room, is usually the right one.

Where I know a specific medium through people I trust, I say so on its page. Where I do not, the facility support groups are genuinely the better source, and I will point you there without pretending otherwise.

In the news

## Recent coverage

No coverage on file for FCI Pollock. Quiet is the normal state for most facilities; anything that clears review lands here.

**Need help with this? Just ask.**

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