Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville
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The Federal Correctional Institution Seagoville, a federal prison in Seagoville, Texas, is a low security facility housing male offenders. The facility includes a detention center for male offenders and an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum security male offenders.
FCI Seagoville is located 11 miles southeast of central Dallas off of U.S. Highway 175.
[edit] Some History
Built in 1941 the Federal Reformatory for Women was state of the art: hospitals equipped with the latest technology, a female doctor directed the hospital and supervised six physicians, ten registered nurses, a dentist, and a laboratory technician. There were six dormitories with communal laundry, bathing, and toilets located on all floors. Each also had a kitchen with a stove, a dishwasher, and a refrigerator. In addition, the recreation building had orchestral instruments, twelve classrooms for English and music instruction, a multilanguage library, and sewing and weaving rooms. Outside activities included gardening, farming, tennis, baseball, badminton, and walking around the prison grounds.
In 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, it was selected to hold Japanese, German and Italian immigrants. It held prisoners from Central and South America, married couples without children from the United States, and about fifty Japanese language teachers from California. The facilities at Seagoville made it the most unusual camp operated by the INS, most who were in alien enemy internment camp certainly didn't have the same luxury. A contemporary observer described a typical dorm room as having "wall-to-wall carpet, a lovely twin bed, writing desk and wash stand, as good as any hotel room."
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