FCC Pollock is located in central Louisiana, approximately 15 miles north of Alexandria.

[3] McNair's duties in prison included work in a manufacturing area, where he repaired old, torn mailbags.

After an over yearlong manhunt, McNair was captured in New Brunswick, Canada by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Oct. 25, 2007 after being featured on the television program America's Most Wanted.

[3][4][5] Since McNair had previously escaped from a county jail and a state prison in North Dakota in 1987 and 1992, he was classified as a high-escape risk and transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, the federal supermax prison in Colorado which holds inmates requiring the tightest controls.

Serving two consecutive life sentences on a state murder charge from North Dakota in 1987.