The Terminal Island prison, originally opened in 1938, houses about 1,100 inmates convicted of low-level offenses such as drug crimes and fraud, mostly without histories of violence.

Nearly half of the inmates at the federal prison at Terminal Island in San Pedro have tested positive for the coronavirus in what has become the nation’s worst outbreak in a federal penitentiary ...

Terminal Island Inmate Among First to be Released From the Federal Prison Following Weeks of Pressure LA County data shows a spike of almost 900 percent at Terminal Island in just under three weeks.

So far, 644 inmates have tested positive, the second-most of any federal prison in the country. Fifteen staff members have tested positive, that's also the second-most. Six inmates have died.

The Terminal Island prison, originally opened in 1938, houses about 1,100 inmates convicted of low-level offenses such as drug crimes and fraud, mostly without histories of violence.