Federal Correctional Institution, Three Rivers
The Federal Correctional Institution, Three Rivers is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Live Oak County, Texas. It is operated by Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp which houses minimum-security male offenders.
FCI Three Rivers is approximately south of San Antonio and northwest of Corpus Christi.
Notable incidents
In 2008, a riot occurred between members of rival prison gangs at FCI Three Rivers which left 22 prisoners injured and one dead. Fifteen of the injured were transported to hospitals in Corpus Christi and San Antonio. The deceased inmate was identified as 40-year-old Servando Rodriguez of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Sources at the prison told the San Antonio Express-News that one gang consisted of American-born Chicanos and the other of Mexican citizens known as "Paisas."Between 2012 and 2014, Joel Gonzalez, a corrections officer at the prison, smuggled in contraband in exchange for bribe money from the family of an inmate. His wife, Lisa Gonzalez, assisted in arranging times and places for the exchange of the cash and contraband goods; she worked at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice at the time. They each pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in 2014, and they were sentenced to, respectively, 24 months and 10 months in federal prison in November of that year.