 The facility also has a satellite prison camp for minimum-security male offenders.FCI Cumberland is located in western Maryland, northwest of Washington, D.C.

FCI Cumberland also has a license plate manufacturing center, where inmates produce license plates used on federal government vehicles.On July 21, 2010, inmate and former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik used the social website Twitter to post his opposition to the opening of the Park51 Islamic Community Center near Ground Zero.