Federal Medical Center, Rochester

United States federal medical prison

Federal Medical Center, Rochester
(FMC Rochester)

Location| Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.
Status| Operational
Security class| Medical
Population| 786 (as of July 13, 2024 (2024-07-13))
Opened| 1984 (1984)
Managed by| Federal Bureau of Prisons
Warden| Steve Kallis
Website| www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/rch/

The Federal Medical Center, Rochester (FMC Rochester) is a United States federal prison in Minnesota for male inmates requiring specialized or long-term medical or mental health care. It is designated as an administrative facility, which means it holds inmates of all security classifications. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.

FMC Rochester is located in southeastern Minnesota, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of downtown Rochester.[1]

## Facility

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FMC Rochester is one of six medical referral centers within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Health Services staff at FMC include physicians, a dentist, dental assistants, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, a radiological technician, physical therapists, laboratory technologists and a respiratory therapist. Mental Health Services through the Psychiatry and Psychology Departments are available to all inmates. These include educational groups, therapy groups, individual therapy, intensive diagnosis/assessment, and inpatient treatment. In addition, outpatient substance abuse treatment services are available.[2]

In 2009, Philip Fornaci, the director of the DC Prisoners' Project, stated that Rochester, along with FMC Butner and FMC Carswell, "are clearly the "gold standard" in terms of what BOP facilities can achieve in providing medical care" and that they had provided "excellent medical care, sometimes for extremely complex medical needs."[3]

## Notable incidents

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In July 2009, Richard Torres, a correction officer at FMC Rochester, was indicted for smuggling contraband into the facility for an inmate in exchange for thousands of dollars in bribes. The contraband included cellular telephones, tobacco and creatine powder. Torres was terminated. Two months later, he pleaded guilty to soliciting a bribe and he was sentenced to one year in federal prison.[4][5]

## Notable inmates

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### Current

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Inmate Name  | Register Number  | Photo  | Status  | Details

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Jared Lee Loughner | 15213-196[permanent dead link‍] |  | Serving a life sentence.  | Perpetrator of the 2011 Tucson shooting in Arizona; pleaded guilty in 2012 to the attempted assassination of U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords and the murder of six people, including U.S. District Judge John Roll.[6][7]
Luke Helder | 36460-048[permanent dead link‍] |  | Currently being held indefinitely  | Planted homemade pipe bombs in mailboxes in five Midwestern states in 2002; ruled incompetent to stand trial in 2004.[8][9][10]
Yonathan Melaku  | 79418-083  |  | Serving a 25-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2028.  | Perpetrator of the Northern Virginia military shootings.[11]
Ming Sen Shiue | 00499-041  |  | Serving a life sentence (with the possibility of parole).  | Kidnapped Mary Stauffer and her daughter Elizabeth. Also serving a 40-year sentence on state murder charges for killing a 6-year-old boy who witnessed the crime. Shiue was detained indefinitely as a dangerous sexual predator in 2010.[12]
Brian Kolfage | 26978-017  |  | Serving 4 years and 4 months (started July 25, 2023)  | Pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, filing false tax returns in connection with the We Build the Wall Scam.

### Former

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Inmate Name  | Register Number  | Photo  | Status  | Details

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Jim Bakker | 07407-058[permanent dead link‍] |  | Released from custody in 1994; served 5 years.  | Founder of Praise the Lord (PTL) Ministries; convicted of fraud in 1989 for stealing millions of dollars in donations from his members.[13][14]
Sol Wachtler | 32571-054[permanent dead link‍] |  | Released from custody in 1994; served 11 months.[15] | Former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals; pleaded guilty in 1992 to sending messages to his ex-mistress threatening to kidnap her 14-year-old daughter in retaliation for her ending their affair.[16]
Lyndon LaRouche | 15204-083[permanent dead link‍] |  | Released from custody in 1994; served 5 years.  | Three-time presidential candidate; convicted in 1988 of scheming to defraud the IRS and deliberately defaulting on more than $30 million in loans from his supporters.[17]
Miles J. Jones | 20907-045[permanent dead link‍] |  | Released from custody in 2010; served 18 months.  | Forensic pathologist-physician convicted of income-tax evasion[18]
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman[19] | 34892-054  |  | Transferred to FMC Butner, where he died in February 2017  | Egyptian Muslim leader, convicted of seditious conspiracy after investigation into the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
Dennis Hastert | 47991-424[permanent dead link‍] |  | Entered prison June 2016; Released from custody in 2017; served 13 months out of a 15-month sentence.  | Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, convicted of breaking financial rules in hush money aimed at covering up sexual abuse of teenagers.[20]
Leo Earl Sharp Sr. | 46394-039[permanent dead link‍] |  | Entered prison May 2014; Compassionate release granted in June 2015; served 13 months of a 3-year sentence. Died December, 2016.  | Drug courier for Sinaloa Cartel, and inspiration for Clint Eastwood movie The Mule.[21]
Gregory Scarpa | 30880-053[permanent dead link‍] |  | Deceased in custody in 1994.  | Colombo crime family hitman and FBI informant.
Keith E. Anderson  | 63025-004[permanent dead link‍] |  | Served a 20-year sentence; released in 2019.  | Owner of Anderson's Ark & Associates tax preparation company; extradited from Costa Rica in 2002; convicted in 2004 of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering for assisting over 2,000 clients in five countries evade taxes on millions of dollars of income.[22][23]
Melvin Mayes  | 09891-000[permanent dead link‍] |  | Sentenced to three life sentences; Released in February 2022 on compassionate release due to a terminal illness.[24] | Lieutenant for El Rukn street gang leader Jeff Fort; convicted in absentia in 1987 of racketeering, drug trafficking and conspiring to commit terrorist attacks in the US on behalf of the Libyan government; captured in 1995 after eight years as a fugitive.[25]

## See also

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* United States portal
* Politics portal

* List of United States federal prisons
* Federal Bureau of Prisons
* Incarceration in the United States

## References

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1. ^ "FMC Rochester". Bop.gov. 2015-06-11. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
2. ^ "Admission and Orientation Handbook" (PDF). Bop.gov. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
3. ^ Fornaci, Philip (Director of the DC Prisoners' Project). "Federal Bureau of Prisons Oversight Hearing Archived 2016-09-07 at the Wayback Machine" (Archive). Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. July 21, 2009. Retrieved on February 5, 2016.
4. ^ "Rochester prison guard charged with smuggling contraband | Minnesota Public Radio News". Minnesota.publicradio.org. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
5. ^ "Prison guard sentenced for smuggling contraband | Minnesota Public Radio News". Minnesota.publicradio.org. 2010-03-04. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
6. ^ "Jared Lee Loughner Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges in Tucson Shooting". Federal Bureau of Investigation. August 7, 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
7. ^ Jacques Billeaud; Brian Skoloff (November 8, 2012). "Jared Loughner Sentenced To Life In Prison For Arizona Shooting That Wounded Gabrielle Giffords". Huffington Post. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
8. ^ "Federal charges brought against accused mailbox bomber". CNN. 2002-05-10. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012.
9. ^ Van Hyfte, Vanessa (2004). "Helder not fit to stand trial". WQAD Report. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-10-16.
10. ^ "Experts say mailbox bomb suspect unlikely to be freed soon". WQAD Report. 2004-04-06. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-10-16.
11. ^ "Yonathan Melaku, who fired at Pentagon and other military facilities, sentenced to 25 years in prison". Washington Post. January 11, 2013. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
12. ^ "Judge says killer-rapist Ming Sen Shiue can be held indefinitely". Twin Cities. 2010-09-29. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
13. ^ "Bakker Begins Tests to Evaluate His Mental State". Los Angeles Times. 1989-09-02.
14. ^ "Jim Bakker arrives – PostBulletin.com: Home". PostBulletin.com. 1989-11-03. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
15. ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (August 27, 1994). "Ex-Judge Wachtler to Move From Prison to Halfway House". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
16. ^ Seeking Leniency, Wachtler Blames Adversaries, The New York Times, September 5, 1993
17. ^ "Larouche Receives 15-Year Sentence". The New York Times. 1989-01-28.
18. ^ "John F. Wood : FORMER LIBERTY PATHOLOGIST SENTENCED FOR FAILING TO FILE TAX RETURNS" (PDF). Justice.gov. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
19. ^ "Blind Sheik – Former Rochester Federal Prison Inmate – Has Died". KROC (AM). Retrieved 18 February 2017.
20. ^ Michael Tarm, Ex-Speaker Hastert enters prison: now Inmate No. 47991-424 Archived 2016-06-25 at the Wayback Machine, Associated Press (June 22, 2016).
21. ^ "Michigan Drug 'Mule' Leo Sharp Gets 3 Years on 90th Birthday". NBC News.
22. ^ "10 Are Charged in Tax Evasion Case Said to Involve 2,000". The New York Times. 2002-12-12.
23. ^ "#210: 04-22-05 FOUR DEFENDANTS SENTENCED IN $120 MILLION INTERNATIONAL TAX SHELTER CASE". Justice.gov. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
24. ^ Meisner, Jason (21 January 2022). "El Rukn general at center of bizarre Libyan terror plot to be released from prison". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
25. ^ "El Rukn Member Gets 3 Life Terms In Racketeering Case". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved 1 May 2015.

## External links

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