[1] FCI Cumberland is located in unincorporated Allegany County,[2] western Maryland, 130 miles (210 km) northwest of Washington, D.C. FCI Cumberland also has a license plate manufacturing center, where inmates produce license plates used on federal government vehicles.

On July 21, 2010, inmate and former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik used the social website Twitter to post his opposition to the opening of the Park51 Islamic Community Center near Ground Zero.

The post read, "If we let them defile ground zero with a beachhead for sharia we will validate their sense of victory on 9/11 and encourage future attacks on America.

No mosque at Ground Zero" and included a link to a Web video showing the Twin Towers falling.

A Federal Bureau of Prisons official told Salon, "Inmates don't have Internet access.