FCI Petersburg Medium Inmate Search and Prison Information

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FCI Petersburg Medium is short for Hopewell Federal Correctional Institution. The FCI Petersburg Medium is known as a medium-security facility in Hopewell, District of Columbia.
The facility has a main campus that is home to over 1503 inmates along with a satellite prison camp that is home to over 380 inmates.
FCI Petersburg Medium — General Information
Capacity 1503 persons.
1060 RIVER ROAD HOPEWELL, VA, 23860
https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/pem/
804-504-7200
How to Find Someone in FCI Petersburg Medium
The FCI Petersburg Medium has its database within the Federal Bureau of Prisons database. You can search through the inmates and find all of the information you will need here.
Sending a Mail/Care Package
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Inmates in the FCI Petersburg Medium can receive mail. Mail time in the FCI Petersburg Medium is the best time of the week for these inmates.
They get to receive their letters, photos, and even packages.
You will be allowed to send off the following:
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Letters
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New Paperback Books
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Magazines
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Newspapers
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Photographs
If you want to send books, newspapers, and magazines, you will need to have them shipped to the FCI Petersburg Medium from the publisher and/or bookstore.
Keep in mind that all books are required to be new and paperback as well.
Sending Money
The FCI Petersburg Medium has given inmate three methods of how they can fund an inmate's account.
First and foremost, the fastest way to put money on an inmate’s books is to use either MoneyGram or Western Union. To use either of these services, you should note that it will have a fee.
The other way you can put money on an inmate’s books is to send a money order. The money order will need to have the inmate’s name and their BOP number.
Phone calls
Inmates in the FCI Petersburg Medium will have the ability to use the telephones that are in the common areas throughout the day.
These phones will be in use if the FCI Petersburg Medium is not under any sort of lockdown.
Inmates will have to have money in their phone account to use these telephones. Inmates will only be permitted to talk on the phone for 300 minutes each month as well.
Visitation
The FCI Petersburg Medium and the satellite prison camp has the same visitation hours. The visitation schedule is as follows:
You will need to have completed your visitor application and have it approved prior to being allowed to visit in the FCI Petersburg Medium. You will also need your ID card.
Visiting Hours
Directions
Refer the map below to find the driving directions.
Nearby Jail/Prison
- FCI Petersburg Low
- Arlington County Detention Center
- Prince George City Jail
- Colonial Heights City Jail
- Petersburg Jail
- Petersburg City Jail
- Petersburg Jail Annex
- Crater Juvenile Detention Home
- Chesterfield Juvenile Detention Home
- Chesterfield County Jail
- Chesterfield Women’s Diversion Center
- Central Virginia Correctional – Female Unit #13
- Sussex 2 State Prison
- Medical College of Virginia
- Richmond City Justice Center
- Sussex 1 State Prison
- Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center
- Dinwiddie County Jail
- Richmond Juvenile Detention Center
- New Kent County Jail
- Henrico County Regional Jail West
- Henrico City Jail
- Henrico County Regional Jail East
- McKenney City Jail
- King William County Jail
- Hanover Juvenile Correctional Center