[1] U.S Army, Vietnam, Installation Stockade (USARVIS), more commonly known as Long Binh Jail, was established in the summer of 1966 by the U.S. Army as a temporary stockade designed to hold about four hundred prisoners, located on Long Binh Post approximately 20 kilometers northeast of Saigon.
[2][3][4] It replaced a stockade that held about 200 prisoners located at Pershing Field, Tan Son Nhut Air Base at Saigon.
[2]: 5–304 LBJ also served as a holding facility for more serious crimes requiring confinement in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
[3]: 255 The facility was closed in 1972 and the remaining prisoners and guards were assigned to the original stockade area at Pershing Field.
Long Binh Jail was turned over to the South Vietnamese government on March 29, 1973, as the last combat troops departed Vietnam.
[4] After being called a slur by a white soldier, Gary Payton, an African-American enlisted in the United States Army, abandoned his post in Vietnam.
Lieutenant Colonel Vern Johnson, the installation commander, never recovered from the beating he received from the prisoners and was eventually medically retired from the Army.