FCI Dublin is located 20 miles southeast of Oakland on the Parks Reserve Forces Training Area.

[2] After 60 Minutes aired a special in January 2024 titled "Agency In Crisis", the FBI raided the FCI Dublin and shortly after, the Bureau of Prisons announced its closure on April 15, 2024.

[3] The prison's education department offers GED and ESL programs, as well as courses in parenting skills.

There are two Federal Prison Industries UNICOR programs at FCI Dublin: the Textiles and the Call Center.

Textiles employ approximately 150 inmates on the manufacture of custom draperies, parachutes, and disaster blankets.

Measuring 14 feet (4.3 m) high, each chain-link fence is reinforced with multiple coils of razor wire (at the top and bottom) plus electronic sensors to detect escape attempts.

The BOP has removed a section of the FCI and placed approximately 200 female minimum security prisoners in this space.

Mr. McIntosh was serving a sentence for wire fraud when he met Ms. Lopez working in the business office of the prison and the two devised the escape plan.