Federal Correctional Institution, Yazoo City Low (FCI Yazoo City Low): a low-security facility with an adjacent satellite prison camp houses for minimum-security offenders.
Federal Correctional Institution, Yazoo City Medium (FCI Yazoo City Medium): a medium-security facility, with an adjacent satellite prison camp for minimum-security offenders.
United States Penitentiary, Yazoo City (USP Yazoo City): a high-security facility.[2]
FCC Yazoo City is located 36 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital.[3]
Notable incidents
In 2008, a joint investigation conducted by the Bureau of Prisons Office of Inspector General and the Department of Justice revealed that Raymond Morton, a correctional officer at FCI Yazoo City, had accepted bribes from an inmate whom the Bureau of Prisons did not identify. Morton was indicted on April 8, 2008, for agreeing to receive and accept bribes from a federal inmate. He subsequently pleaded guilty to the charge in federal court and was sentenced to probation.[4]
On February 26, 2013, Robert Kale Johnson, a former correctional officer at FCI Yazoo City, was sentenced to 15 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for taking a $5,000 bribe in exchange for bringing contraband into the facility. Johnson was released in June 2014.[5]
On March 25, 2010, Dashun Temple, a correction officer at the FCC Yazoo City, Mississippi, pleaded guilty to Workman's Compensation Fraud in federal court. Claiming that he had suffered a back injury from lifting boxes, Temple admitted submitting fraudulent medical travel refund requests to the Department of Labor from December 2007 through August 2008. Temple claimed that he had traveled from his home in Pearl, Mississippi to a medical clinic in Woodville, Mississippi on 84 different occasions. An investigation revealed through the records of the clinic that Temple had only made 5 legitimate trips, thus leaving 79 trips as fraudulent. Temple received a total of $11,595.76 in reimbursements. Temple was terminated, ordered to pay restitution, and sentenced to probation.[6]
Notable inmates
Current
Inmate Name
Register Number
Photo
Status
Details
Manssor Arbabsiar
65807-054
Serving a 25-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2033
Serving a 16 year sentence, scheduled for release on November 28, 2030.[8]
Sentenced for his role as a leader of a nearly year-long crack and cocaine drug trafficking conspiracy in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. This included one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base and a detectable amount of cocaine.
Serving a 16-year sentence, scheduled for release in 2027.[9]
The son of the former President of Suriname, Dési Bouterse, pled guilty to conspiring to import five kilograms and more of cocaine into the United States and attempting to provide material support to Hezbollah.
Serving a 16-years, 8-months sentence, scheduled for release in June 8, 2031.
Operated a multi-billion dollar payday loans company, especially in states where these high-interest, low-principal loans were restricted or illegal. Convicted on 14 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering, and Truth In Lending Act offenses.[11]
Serving a 37-year sentence.[12] Scheduled for release on July 29, 2032.
The former mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut from 1996-2001. In 2003, Giordano was convicted in federal court of using an interstate device, his cellphone, to repeatedly arrange sexual contact with a 10-year old niece and the 8-year old daughter of a prostitute with whom he was having an affair while serving as mayor.[12]
Somali pirate leader; convicted in November 2010 connection with an April 2010 attack on the American warship Nicholas, during which Hasan fired a rocket propelled grenade at what he believed was a merchant ship he and his co-defendants aimed to commandeer.[13]
Sentenced to 151 months (12 years, 7 months) in August 2008. Released July 2018.[15]
Convicted of attempting to distribute more than 7,000 pounds of marijuana in Florida and is serving a 13-year sentence.[16] Woolsey released an album while incarcerated that has seen top-10 placement on Billboard charts.
Released from custody in July 2014; served 4 years.[24]
Canadian cannabis advocate and once the largest supplier of marijuana seeds in the United States; pleaded guilty in 2010 to conspiracy to manufacture marijuana.[25][26]
Sentenced to 36 years. Released on September 5, 2017.
Former cook; convicted in 2005 of using violence to seize and exercise control of a vessel in international waters for murdering Captain Chen Chung-She and First Mate Le Da Feng during an unsuccessful hijacking attempt in 2002.[27]
Initially sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for two fatal carjacking related charges, Boyd was later charged and convicted at state level on over 30 charges, and sentenced to life imprisonment.[28]
In 2008 Boyd was convicted of being an accessory after the fact, and concealing a felon in relation to the 2007 Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.[29] In 2018 he was indicted by a grand jury and convicted at state level of kidnapping, robbery, rape and first degree murder in relation to the case.[30]
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