Alderson Federal Prison Camp

**Alderson Federal Prison Camp**
Name	Alderson Federal Prison Camp
Address	Glen Ray Road, Box B Alderson, West Virginia 24910
Type	Minimum/Female
Facility Code	ALD

Alderson Federal Prison Camp, also Federal Prison Camp, Alderson or FPC Alderson, is a federal prison in the United States for minimum-security female inmates. Eleanor Roosevelt, the future First Lady, and Mabel Walker Willebrandt, the Assistant U.S. Attorney General, first encouraged its establishment. The prison is a prison camp with a population of around 1,050 and is located in the rural town of Alderson in southeast West Virginia, about 270 miles southwest of Washington, DC.

FPC Alderson opened in 1927 and was the first federal prison for women. The camp is comprised of 105 acres of rolling hills. While there are no metal fences surrounding the camp, prisoners have schedules and must work. Free time is spent playing volleyball, softball or tennis.

Most of the inmates at FPC Alderson have been convicted of non-violent or white-collar crime. They sleep in bunk beds in dormitories.

The prison is nicknamed "Camp Cupcake."

Notable inmates

Sources

Marks, Alexandra. "The prison that Martha Stewart will call home." The Christian Science Monitor. October 8, 2004. [1] (http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1008/p01s01-usju.html).

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