The Federal Correctional Institution, Big Spring (FCI Big Spring) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Texas.
It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
The facility also has a satellite prison camp which houses minimum-security male offenders.
[1] The town is also the location of the privately owned and operated Big Spring Correctional Center, which contracts with the FBOP to house federal detainees at four locations.
Both FCI Big Spring and the BSCC occupy buildings and facilities repurposed from the closed Webb Air Force Base.