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Federal Medical Center, Rochester (FMC Rochester) is a United States

United States

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facility in southeast Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

which provides specialized and long-term physical and mental health

Mental health

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medical care

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to male offenders. It is on the campus of the former state hospital on the edge of Rochester

Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Olmsted County. Located on both banks of the Zumbro River, The city has a population of 106,769 according to the 2010 United States Census, making it Minnesota's third-largest city and the largest outside of the...

, about two miles (3 km) east of downtown.

Notable inmates

Name	Number	Status	Details
Jim Bakker Jim Bakker James Orsen "Jim" Bakker is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry...	07407-058	Released	televangelist Televangelism Televangelism is the use of television to communicate the Christian faith. The word is a portmanteau of television and evangelism and was coined by Time magazine. A “televangelist” is a Christian minister who devotes a large portion of his ministry to television broadcasting... convicted of tax crimes
Robert Courtney Robert Courtney Robert Ray Courtney is a former pharmacist who owned and operated Research Medical Tower Pharmacy in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2002 he was convicted of pharmaceutical fraud and sentenced to federal prison.-Early life and education:...	14536-045	In FMC, Rochester in 2010	Known as "The Toxic Pharmacist"
Lyndon LaRouche Lyndon LaRouche Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. is an American political activist and founder of a network of political committees, parties, and publications known collectively as the LaRouche movement...	15204-083	Released	Head of LaRouche movement LaRouche movement The LaRouche movement is an international political and cultural network that promotes Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas. It has included scores of organizations and companies around the world. Their activities include campaigning, private intelligence gathering, and publishing numerous periodicals,...
Luke Helder Luke Helder Lucas John Helder is a former University of Wisconsin–Stout college student from Pine Island, Minnesota, who earned notoriety as the Midwest Pipe Bomber in May 2002.- Bombings :...	36460-048	In FMC, Rochester in 2010	Midwest Pipe Bomber
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman Omar Abdel-Rahman Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman , commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", is a blind Egyptian Muslim leader who is currently serving a life sentence at the Butner Medical Center which is part of the Butner Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, United...	34892-054	Transferred to FMC Butner, NC	Role in the New York City landmark bomb plot New York City landmark bomb plot The New York City landmark bomb plot was a planned follow-up to the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing designed to inflict mass casualties on American soil by attacking well known landmark targets throughout New York City in the United States. If the attack had been successful, it is likely...
James Traficant James Traficant James Anthony Traficant, Jr. is a former Democratic Representative in the United States Congress from Ohio . He represented the 17th Congressional District, which centered on his hometown of Youngstown and included parts of three counties in northeast Ohio's Mahoning Valley...	31213-060	Released	Former nine-term Ohio democratic congressman convicted of bribery and racketeering

External links

FMC Rochester
Sheikh's presence in Rochester worries some - Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota Public Radio
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report, December 14, 2001

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