FCC Victorville is located on land that was formerly part of George Air Force Base, located within the city limits, 8 miles (13 km) northwest of central Victorville, California, and is approximately 85 miles (137 km) northeast of Los Angeles.

[2] Prisoners have access to the text-based e-mail program known as TRULINCS (Trust Fund Limited Inmate Communication System).

Ritter was transported to a local hospital by ambulance and later flown to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in critical condition.

Ritter died of his injuries at 7:13 p.m.[5][6] On October 1, 2013, inmate Javier Sanders was found beaten to death in his cell.

The deaths were quickly ruled homicides,[9] and the victims were later identified as 24-year-old Brian Kountz and 49-year-old Robert Howard Ferguson.

Ferguson had been sentenced the same year in Las Vegas, Nevada, to 80 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

[10] Three days later, news outlets reported that 48-year-old Daniel Casto (60992-065) of Sweet Home, Oregon, had been identified as a suspect and placed in a restricted housing unit within USP Victorville.

[11] Casto is currently being held at the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, a high-security federal prison in Colorado, with a release date in 2031.