The Bureau of Prisons categorizes federal prisons with special missions as administrative-security institutions. These facilities are equipped to house inmates of any security level. Federal prisons that house pretrial detainees, such as Metropolitan Correctional Centers (MCCs) and Metropolitan Detention Centers (MDCs), are classified as administrative security, as are Federal Medical Centers (FMCs), Federal Transfer Centers (FTCs), and the Administrative Maximum (ADX), the Bureau’s supermax, located in Florence, Colorado.

In terms of violence, data from 2017 puts administrative-security prisons between low- and medium-security institutions. Because of the variety of missions that administrative-security prisons serve, however, violence levels in these institutions tend to vary significantly. Federal Medical Centers, for example, see very little violence. The ADX, on the other hand, houses inmates that the Bureau has judged to be extremely dangerous, violent, and virtually unmanageable.

Designation to an administrative-security prison is based almost entirely on the prison’s mission, and not the inmate’s security points or custody classification. For example, an inmate with serious medical needs may be designated to an administrative-security

FMC regardless of his security point total, though the inmate’s security level may influence the particular FMC to which he or she is designated.

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