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Federal Prison Camp, Eglin
Federal Prison Camp, Eglin was a Federal Bureau of Prisons minimum security prison at Auxiliary Field 6, Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.[1]
Lacey Rose of Forbes wrote that it "was once considered so cushy that the term "Club Fed" was actually coined to describe it."[2]
By 2006 the federal government decided to cut costs by closing Eglin and returning the buildings to the Air Force. The prisoners were moved to Federal Prison Camp, Pensacola.[3]
Notable inmates edit
The five Watergate burglars - Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martínez, James W. McCord Jr., and Frank Sturgis - were inmates at Eglin.[4]
| Name | Number | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack P.F. Gremillion | N/A | Confined for two years after losing in 1973 his appeal of his 1971 conviction of lying to a grand jury about his involvement in the Louisiana Loan and Thrift case. He was subsequently readmitted to the bar.[5] | Attorney General of Louisiana from 1956 to 1972 |
| Edward Mezvinsky | 55040-066 | Released | former member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa |
| Louis Wolfson | N/A | Held at FCI, Eglin[6] | former Wall Street financier |
| Steve Madden | 49498-054 | Held at Eglin | former head of Steve Madden, LTD |
| Robert Mason (writer) | 81349-071 | Imprisoned at Eglin in the early 1980s for drug trafficking. Wrote about these in the book Chickenhawk: Back in the World | Writer of Chickenhawk |
| Marvin Mandel | 12100-037 | Released | former governor of Maryland |
| James A. Kelly Jr. | 14231-038 | Released | Former Massachusetts State Senator. Convicted of extortion.[7] |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "." Federal Bureau of Prisons. February 2, 2004. Retrieved on August 23, 2010.
- ^ "The Best Places to Go to Prison" (). Forbes. April 17, 2006. Retrieved on December 30, 2015.
- ^ Rudman, Mladen. "". Northwest Florida Daily News. January 10, 2006. Retrieved on August 23, 2010.
- ^ Saperstein, Saundra; Baker, Donald P. (April 23, 1980). "Mandel Asks to Serve Time in Florida" (PDF). The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
- ^ . bbvforums.org. Archived from the original on October 2, 2013. Retrieved June 26, 2013.
- ^ "Financier Wolfson Scheduled To Leave Eglin Prison Today." Associated Press at The Herald Tribune. Monday January 26, 1970. 45th year, No. 115. 1A. Retrieved from Google News (1/38) on August 23, 2010.
- ^ "Short Circuits". The Boston Globe. March 18, 1984.
External links edit
- at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-01-03) - Federal Bureau of Prisons