USP McCreary (the name comes from the surrounding Kentucky county, which has no incorporated towns) is located approximately 88 miles (142 km) north of Knoxville, Tennessee, 125 miles (201 km) south of Lexington, Kentucky and 208 miles (335 km) south of Cincinnati, Ohio.[2]
The Education Department at USP McCreary offers a wide variety of academic and vocational programs ranging from Adult Literacy to post-secondary studies through correspondence. All programs are voluntary with the exception of General Education Development (GED) and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. A representative from the Education Department interviews each inmate shortly after their arrival at the institution to determine their educational needs and goals. An inmate who does not have a verifiable high school diploma or GED is required to attend 240 hours of GED classes. For inmates who cannot proficiently speak English, mandatory attendance in ESL classes is required until the inmate is able to pass a certification test.[3]
Notable incidents
Two correction officers at USP McCreary were stabbed on November 8, 2010. A prison spokesperson told The Associated Press that the officers were conducting routine cell searches when an inmate attacked them with a homemade prison knife. The officers were taken to a local hospital with what officials called serious but non-life-threatening injuries to the chest, back and shoulder. They were later released after treatment. An investigation identified the assailant as 38-year-old James Edward Rose, an inmate with a lengthy criminal history who was serving a sentence for armed bank robbery and witness tampering. Rose was convicted of attempted murder in 2011 and sentenced to life in prison.[4] He is currently being held at the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, the federal supermax prison in Colorado which holds inmates who pose the highest security risks and require the tightest controls.[5]
On October 15, 2013, WBIR-TV, an NBC affiliate in Knoxville, reported that 350 federal employees, primarily correctional officers, were working without pay during the 2013 federal government shutdown. The story quoted Don Peace, an employee at USP McCreary and president of the American Federation of Government Employees local, "There are probably 1,700 inmates behind the wall. The staff is putting their life literally on the line every time they come to work and go behind that fence. You don't know if you're going to walk out at night or not and now they're asking us to do that for free or for an IOU. This job is already stressful enough without all of these added things we have no control over." While the correctional officers and other prison employees worked for free, the inmates continued receiving pay for their labor during the shutdown.[6] The shutdown ended on October 17, 2013.[7]
Notable inmates
Inmate name
Register number
Status
Details
Corey Hamlet
27912-050
Serving a life sentence.
Leader of the Grape Street Crips in Newark, NJ; Convicted of six homicides and ten attempted murders.[8]
Gang leader in Staten Island, New York; murdered NYPD Detectives James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews, who were conducting a sting operation to buy an illegal gun in 2003.[9][10]
White supremacist; convicted of civil rights violations for a shooting spree targeting African-Americans in Lubbock, Texas, which killed one man and wounded two others, in an attempt to start a nationwide race war. His co-defendants, Eli Mungia and Roy Martin are housed at USP Big Sandy and ADX Florence respectively.[14][15]
Former DEA Agent convicted of money laundering, obstruction of justice, and "extortion under color of official right" during the investigation of the Silk Road online drug marketplace.[20]
White supremacist convicted on charges of racketeering, racketeering in aid of murder and robbery conspiracy in connection to the kidnapping, torture and murders of William and Nancy Mueller and their 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell. Co-defendant Daniel Lewis Lee was executed for the murders at United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute on July 14, 2020. Transferred into USP Florence - High from ADX Florence in 2019, and subsequently to McCreary in December 2020.
^"2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: McCreary County, KY" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 9 (PDF p. 10/13). Retrieved 2022-08-15. United States Penitentiary McCreary
^"USP/SCP McCreary - Admissions & Orientation Handbook" (PDF). Federal Bureau of Prisons. January 2013. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
^"Federal inmate sentenced to 105 years". McCreary County Record. October 4, 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
^"Inmate Locator - Register # 10820-007". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
^Matheny, Jim (October 15, 2013). "Shutdown prison employees required to work without pay". NBC Universal. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
^Yoder, Eric (October 16, 2013). "What ending the shutdown means for federal employees". Washington Post. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
^"Long-Time Leader of Violent Grape Street Crips Street Gang and Two Members Convicted of Racketeering Conspiracy". United States Attorney's Office.
^Brick, Michael (February 6, 2007). "Detectives' Killer Breaks Windows in Jail". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
^Hays, Tom (July 24, 2013). "Ronell Wilson, NY Cop Killer, Gets Death Penalty". Huffington Post. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
^"Tommy Pitera". bio. A&E Television Networks, LLC. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
^Lubasch, Anthony (July 2, 1992). "Federal Jurors Considering Death Penalty for Mobster". The New York Times.
^Knafo, Saki (January 25, 2014). "Sentenced To Life In Prison For Selling Marijuana". Huffington Post. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
^Associated Press (April 8, 1996). "Life Sentences for 3 Men in Racial Attacks". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
^"Selected Case Summaries - Hate Crimes - US v. Mungia". US Department of Justice. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
^Olson, Scott (June 26, 2015). "Durham fails to convince judge to reduce 50-year sentence". Indianapolis Business Journal. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
^Chapman, Sandra (November 30, 2012). "Tim Durham sentenced to 50 years in fraud case". WTHR 13 Indiana. 2015 WorldNow and WTHR. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
^"Case Updates: U.S. v. Timothy S. Durham, James F. Cochran, and Rick D. Snow". US Department of Justice. US Government. June 26, 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
^"American Greed: The Playboy of Indiana". CNBC. CNBC Network. January 22, 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
^Sarah Jeong (Oct 20, 2015). "DEA Agent Who Faked a Murder and Took Bitcoins from Silk Road Explains Himself". Vice.
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The United States Penitentiary McCreary USP McCreary is a high security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated McCreary County Kentucky 1 It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons a division of the United States Department of Justice The facility also has an adjacent minimum security satellite camp for male offenders United States Penitentiary McCrearyLocationMcCreary County near Pine Knot KentuckyStatusOperationalSecurity classHigh security with minimum security prison camp Population1 558 1 471 at the USP 87 in prison camp April 2022 Managed byFederal Bureau of PrisonsWardenGomezUSP McCreary the name comes from the surrounding Kentucky county which has no incorporated towns is located approximately 88 miles 142 km north of Knoxville Tennessee 125 miles 201 km south of Lexington Kentucky and 208 miles 335 km south of Cincinnati Ohio 2 Contents 1 Facility and programs 2 Notable incidents 3 Notable inmates 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksFacility and programs EditThe Education Department at USP McCreary offers a wide variety of academic and vocational programs ranging from Adult Literacy to post secondary studies through correspondence All programs are voluntary with the exception of General Education Development GED and English as a Second Language ESL classes A representative from the Education Department interviews each inmate shortly after their arrival at the institution to determine their educational needs and goals An inmate who does not have a verifiable high school diploma or GED is required to attend 240 hours of GED classes For inmates who cannot proficiently speak English mandatory attendance in ESL classes is required until the inmate is able to pass a certification test 3 Notable incidents EditTwo correction officers at USP McCreary were stabbed on November 8 2010 A prison spokesperson told The Associated Press that the officers were conducting routine cell searches when an inmate attacked them with a homemade prison knife The officers were taken to a local hospital with what officials called serious but non life threatening injuries to the chest back and shoulder They were later released after treatment An investigation identified the assailant as 38 year old James Edward Rose an inmate with a lengthy criminal history who was serving a sentence for armed bank robbery and witness tampering Rose was convicted of attempted murder in 2011 and sentenced to life in prison 4 He is currently being held at the United States Penitentiary Florence ADX the federal supermax prison in Colorado which holds inmates who pose the highest security risks and require the tightest controls 5 On October 15 2013 WBIR TV an NBC affiliate in Knoxville reported that 350 federal employees primarily correctional officers were working without pay during the 2013 federal government shutdown The story quoted Don Peace an employee at USP McCreary and president of the American Federation of Government Employees local There are probably 1 700 inmates behind the wall The staff is putting their life literally on the line every time they come to work and go behind that fence You don t know if you re going to walk out at night or not and now they re asking us to do that for free or for an IOU This job is already stressful enough without all of these added things we have no control over While the correctional officers and other prison employees worked for free the inmates continued receiving pay for their labor during the shutdown 6 The shutdown ended on October 17 2013 7 Notable inmates EditInmate name Register number Status DetailsCorey Hamlet 27912 050 Serving a life sentence Leader of the Grape Street Crips in Newark NJ Convicted of six homicides and ten attempted murders 8 Cristobal Veliz 88389 054 Serving a life sentence Responsible for the Murders of Bernice and Ben Novack Jr Ronell Wilson 71460 053 Serving a life sentence now at USP Florence High Gang leader in Staten Island New York murdered NYPD Detectives James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews who were conducting a sting operation to buy an illegal gun in 2003 9 10 Thomas Pitera 29465 053 Serving a life sentence 11 Former hitman for the Bonanno Crime Family in New York City convicted in 1992 of murder and murder conspiracy for torturing and murdering six people as well as racketeering for operating a large drug trafficking operation 12 Ricky Mungia 26372 077 Serving a life sentence now at USP Pollock 13 White supremacist convicted of civil rights violations for a shooting spree targeting African Americans in Lubbock Texas which killed one man and wounded two others in an attempt to start a nationwide race war His co defendants Eli Mungia and Roy Martin are housed at USP Big Sandy and ADX Florence respectively 14 15 Brendt Christensen 22127 026 Serving a life sentence now at USP Coleman II Kidnapped raped and murdered a Chinese student at the University of Illinois Tim Durham 60452 112 Serving a 50 year sentence scheduled for release in 2056 16 American lawyer and financier convicted in 2012 of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud for cheating his clients out of 200 million in a Ponzi scheme his story was featured on the CNBC television show American Greed 17 18 19 Haji Bagcho 29820 016 Released in 2022 Drug trafficker Russell Defreitas 64347 053 Serving a life sentence Convicted in 2010 for conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack at JFK Airport Carl Mark Force 58633 037 Released on October 9th 2020 Former DEA Agent convicted of money laundering obstruction of justice and extortion under color of official right during the investigation of the Silk Road online drug marketplace 20 John DeRoss 10451 054 Serving a life sentence Transferred to FCI Cumberland Former Underboss of the Colombo crime family and perpetrator of the 1999 Cutolo murder and the 1991 Campanella attempted murder Kenneth McGriff 26301 053 Serving a life sentence Founder of the Supreme Team a violent gang which sold crack cocaine in Queens NY Convicted in 2007 of murder racketeering and drug trafficking Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani 02476 748 Serving a life sentence Al Qaeda terrorist convicted for his role in the bombing of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania He was on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list from its inception in October 2001 In 2004 he was captured and detained by Pakistani forces in a joint operation with the United States and was held until June 9 2009 at Guantanamo Bay detention camp He was then sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States and sent to ADX Florence but then later transferred to USP McCreary Gerald Rubalcaba 02552 748 Serving a life sentence One of the five highest ranking members in the Nuestra Familia prison gang He and 4 other generals were tried under the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act and sentenced to life imprisonment for overseeing a gang that distributed cocaine heroin marijuana and methamphetamine within prison systems Rubalcaba was transferred into USP McCreary from ADX Florence in July 2020 Chevie Kehoe 21300 009 Serving 3 life sentences now at USP Big Sandy White supremacist convicted on charges of racketeering racketeering in aid of murder and robbery conspiracy in connection to the kidnapping torture and murders of William and Nancy Mueller and their 8 year old daughter Sarah Powell Co defendant Daniel Lewis Lee was executed for the murders at United States Penitentiary Terre Haute on July 14 2020 Transferred into USP Florence High from ADX Florence in 2019 and subsequently to McCreary in December 2020 Christopher Jeburk 09029 021 Serving a life sentence now at USP Allenwood Bank robberies kidnappings jail and prisons escapes case featured on TV show The FBI Files See also Edit United States portal Politics portal Law portalList of U S federal prisons Federal Bureau of Prisons Incarceration in the United StatesReferences Edit 2020 CENSUS CENSUS BLOCK MAP McCreary County KY PDF U S Census Bureau p 9 PDF p 10 13 Retrieved 2022 08 15 United States Penitentiary McCreary USP McCreary Federal Bureau of Prisons USP SCP McCreary Admissions amp Orientation Handbook PDF Federal Bureau of Prisons January 2013 Retrieved 17 November 2013 Federal inmate sentenced to 105 years McCreary County Record October 4 2011 Retrieved 17 November 2013 Inmate Locator Register 10820 007 Federal Bureau of Prisons Retrieved 17 November 2013 Matheny Jim October 15 2013 Shutdown prison employees required to work without pay NBC Universal Retrieved 21 January 2014 Yoder Eric October 16 2013 What ending the shutdown means for federal employees Washington Post Retrieved 21 January 2014 Long Time Leader of Violent Grape Street Crips Street Gang and Two Members Convicted of Racketeering Conspiracy United States Attorney s Office Brick Michael February 6 2007 Detectives Killer Breaks Windows in Jail The New York Times Retrieved May 12 2010 Hays Tom July 24 2013 Ronell Wilson NY Cop Killer Gets Death Penalty Huffington Post Retrieved 27 November 2013 Tommy Pitera bio A amp E Television Networks LLC Retrieved 24 August 2015 Lubasch Anthony July 2 1992 Federal Jurors Considering Death Penalty for Mobster The New York Times Knafo Saki January 25 2014 Sentenced To Life In Prison For Selling Marijuana Huffington Post Retrieved 10 October 2015 Associated Press April 8 1996 Life Sentences for 3 Men in Racial Attacks The New York Times Retrieved 17 November 2013 Selected Case Summaries Hate Crimes US v Mungia US Department of Justice Retrieved 17 November 2013 Olson Scott June 26 2015 Durham fails to convince judge to reduce 50 year sentence Indianapolis Business Journal Retrieved 10 October 2015 Chapman Sandra November 30 2012 Tim Durham sentenced to 50 years in fraud case WTHR 13 Indiana 2015 WorldNow and WTHR Retrieved 7 August 2015 Case Updates U S v Timothy S Durham James F Cochran and Rick D Snow US Department of Justice US Government June 26 2015 Retrieved 7 August 2015 American Greed The Playboy of Indiana CNBC CNBC Network January 22 2015 Retrieved 7 August 2015 Sarah Jeong Oct 20 2015 DEA Agent Who Faked a Murder and Took Bitcoins from Silk Road Explains Himself Vice External links EditUSP McCrearyCoordinates 36 41 17 N 84 23 18 W 36 68806 N 84 38833 W 36 68806 84 38833 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title United States Penitentiary McCreary amp oldid 1127928334, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
