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13-500: FMC Rochester is located in southeastern Minnesota, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of downtown Rochester. FMC Rochester is one of six medical referral centers within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Health Services staff at FMC include physicians, a dentist, dental assistants, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, a radiological technician, physical therapists, laboratory technologists and

26-557: A full hospital facility specializing in oncology and behavioral science. Many medical and surgical specialties hold clinics and perform procedures at the FMC. It has the only residential program devoted to the treatment of individuals convicted of sexual offenses in the federal prison system. In 2009 Philip Fornaci, the director of the DC Prisoners' Project, stated that FMC Butner, along with FMC Carswell and FMC Rochester , "are clearly

39-679: A quarter of all deaths in federal prisons occurred at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex . Due to bureaucratic delays in diagnoses and referrals, prisoners often arrive at FMC Butner with terminal conditions, only eligible for palliative care and compassionate release , despite the 1976 US Supreme Court case Estelle v. Gamble guaranteeing prisoners Eighth Amendment rights against deliberate indifference to their medical needs. Furthermore, vacancies in over 20% of nurse and paramedic positions at FMC Butner were linked to staff shortages and burnout. In 2009,

52-537: A respiratory therapist. Mental Health Services through the Psychiatry and Psychology Departments are available to all inmates. These include educational groups, therapy groups, individual therapy, intensive diagnosis/assessment, and inpatient treatment. In addition, outpatient substance abuse treatment services are available. In 2009, Philip Fornaci, the director of the DC Prisoners' Project, stated that Rochester, along with FMC Butner and FMC Carswell , "are clearly

65-471: A study conducted by psychologists Michael Bourke and Andres Hernandez was published in the Journal of Family Violence . The results suggested a strong link between viewing child pornography and sexual abuse. The findings went against the conventional and widely held belief that a person passively viewing child pornography had an insignificant causal link with that person actually molesting a child. In what

78-421: Is known as the "Butner Study," Bourke and Hernandez analyzed data on 155 men convicted of child pornography offenses, who took part in an 18-month treatment program between 2002 and 2005, during which the men filled out assessment measures including a "victims list," where they revealed the number of children they had molested in the past. 74% of the men denied molesting anyone when they were sentenced. However, by

91-704: Is part of the Butner Federal Correctional Complex and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons , a division of the United States Department of Justice . An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum-security male inmates. It is located in Mangum Township , Durham County, North Carolina , near Butner . FMC Butner is located near the Research Triangle area of Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill. FMC Butner has

104-500: Is that the use of a population of participants in the most intensive sex offender treatment program offered in the federal prison system skewed the sample. Offenders had to have received at least a thirty-six-month sentence to be eligible for the program. Melissa Hamilton argues, "These offenders may well, then, have represented particularly dangerous offenders who were a high risk to children since they had been prosecuted, convicted, given more than minimal prison sentences, and accepted into

117-464: The "gold standard" in terms of what BOP facilities can achieve in providing medical care" and that they had provided "excellent medical care, sometimes for extremely complex medical needs." In July 2009, Richard Torres, a correction officer at FMC Rochester, was indicted for smuggling contraband into the facility for an inmate in exchange for thousands of dollars in bribes. The contraband included cellular telephones, tobacco and creatine powder. Torres

130-528: The 'gold standard' in terms of what BOP facilities can achieve in providing medical care" and that they had provided "excellent medical care, sometimes for extremely complex medical needs." However, in 2021, the Bureau of Prison's accreditation from the Joint Commission lapsed, raising concerns of a decline in the quality of medical care. A 2023 NPR investigation found that from 2009-2020, roughly

143-403: The end of treatment, 85% had admitted to sexually molesting a child at least once. The numbers are more than twice that of other studies. In explaining this discrepancy, Bourke said, "Our treatment team worked for an average of 18 months with each offender, and the environment was one of genuine therapeutic trust" that encouraged the men to tell the truth about themselves. A critique of the study

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156-414: The limited-space program because of a perceived need by themselves and program clinicians for a lengthy and intensive residential program." Journal of Family Violence The Journal of Family Violence is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to the study of family violence . It was established in 1986 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media . The editor-in-chief

169-537: Was terminated. Two months later, he pleaded guilty to soliciting a bribe and he was sentenced to one year in federal prison. 44°01′27.36″N 92°26′10.65″W  /  44.0242667°N 92.4362917°W  / 44.0242667; -92.4362917 FMC Butner The Federal Medical Center, Butner ( FMC Butner ), is a United States federal prison opened in 1995 in North Carolina for male inmates of all security levels who have special health needs. It

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