Club Fed

For the 1990 comedy film, see Club Fed (film).

"Club Fed" is a derisive term used in North America to refer to a prison whose accommodations are seen as less severe than many other prisons. Club Fed is a pun on the "Club Med" chain of all-inclusive resorts.

In Canada, the Joliette Institution for Women was nicknamed "Club Fed" because of the prison's supposedly luxurious conditions and lax restrictions, claims the prison has denied.^[1] Also in Canada, the William Head Institution in British Columbia is known as "Club Fed" due to its pastoral country setting which includes tennis courts, a baseball diamond, and a small golf course.^[2][3][4]

See also

• List of U.S. federal prisons
• Alderson Federal Prison Camp
• Incarceration in the United States § Security levels
• Danbury Federal Prison