>Mendota is a medium-security federal correctional institution and an adjacent minimum-security satellite facility. It's also one of the more unpleasant FCIs.

>Mendota is a medium-security federal correctional institution and an adjacent minimum-security satellite facility. It's also one of the more unpleasant FCIs. There have been a lot of scandals, including sexual assault, murder, and other abuses by staff. They've also had a questionable number of inmate deaths, mostly during the pandemic. It took a senator complaining for the then director to resign. It's been a couple of years since then, so maybe it's gotten better, but I kind of doubt the improvements were drastic. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/14/people-in-the-scandal-plagued-federal-prison-system-reveal-what-they-need-in-a-new-director https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/14/people-in-the-...