Federal Correctional Institution, Elkton

Federal Correctional Institution, Elkton
Location	Elkrun Township, Ohio
Status	Operational
Security class	Low-security (with minimum-security prison camp)
Population	1,398 (298 in prison camp)
Managed by	Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Correctional Institution, Elkton (FCI Elkton) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates near Elkton, Ohio. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. It also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses low and minimum-security male inmates.

It is located in Elkrun Township, Columbiana County.^[1]

FCI Elkton is located in central Columbiana County, Ohio and is 45 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[2]

Notable incidents

In 2010, a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, charged FCI Elkton inmate William J. Platz, age 61, with drawing and distributing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct to another inmate between August 2007 and April 2008.^[3] Platz was already serving an 11-year sentence for a child pornography conviction in 2000 and was a co-conspirator with Eric Rosser. Rosser was an FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive until his capture in 2001.^[4] Platz subsequently pleaded guilty and was sentenced to additional prison time, which he served at the Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville, a low-security facility in Texas. He was released in 2016.^[5]

Notable inmates (current and former)

Names	Register Number	Status	Details
Fetty Wap	71943-509	Serving a 72 month sentence	American rapper and singer; Charged with Conspiracy to distribute and possess controlled substances^[6]^[7]
Larry Householder	79002-061	Serving a 20 year sentence. Scheduled for release in 2040.	Convicted on Racketeering charges for his involvement in the Ohio nuclear bribery scandal.^[8]^[9]
J. Alexander Kueng	43977-509	Sentenced to 3 years. Scheduled for release in 2025.	Former police officer convicted in the Murder of George Floyd.^[10]^[11]
Zachariah Fredrickson	06328-122	Sentenced to 10 years. Scheduled for release in 2027.	Sentenced to 10 years for attempting to entice a 13 year-old minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity.^[12]
Peter Gotti	99109-012^{[permanent dead link]}	Served 17 years of a 25-year sentence; died on February 25, 2021.^[13]	Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City after his brother John Gotti's death in 2002; convicted in 2004 of extorting money from contractors and conspiring to murder Sammy Gravano, who testified against John Gotti during his 1992 trial.^[14]
Floyd Lee Corkins	32193-016	Serving a 25-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2033.	Pleaded guilty in 2013 to a terrorism charge for shooting a security guard at the Washington, DC headquarters of the conservative lobbying group Family Research Council in August 2012 in retaliation for the group's opposition to gay marriage.
George Nader	17310-083	Serving a 10-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2025.	Lebanese-born political adviser who worked as an unofficial diplomat between American and Middle-Eastern countries. Convicted on child pornography and human trafficking charges.^[15]^[16]
Glenn Shriver	44634-039^{[permanent dead link]}	Released from custody in 2013; served 4 years.^[17]	American citizen; pleaded guilty in 2010 to attempting to obtain a position with the Central Intelligence Agency in order to access classified national defense information and transmit it to intelligence officers of the People’s Republic of China.^[18]
Samuel Mullet Sr.	57560-060	Served an 11-year sentence; released on January 15, 2021.^[19]	Leader of an ultraconservative Amish sect; convicted in 2012 of hate crime conspiracy for masterminding home invasions and forcible beard cuttings in an attempt to shame mainstream members of the Amish community.^[20]^[21]^[22]
Joseph Vas	30003-050	Served a 6-year sentence; release on February 24, 2017.	Boss and political powerhouse in Perth Amboy, NJ for over 20 years. Indicted on corruption and a variety of other charges.^[23]
Jimmy Dimora	56275-060	Serving 28 year sentence. Now located at RRM Cincinnati; scheduled for release in 2030.	Cuyahoga County commissioner, convicted of racketeering, tax fraud, bribery, extortion, and conspiracy.
Billy McFarland	91186-054	Served 6 year sentence, released on August 30, 2022.	Sentenced to 6 years in October 2018 after pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud amounting to more than $26 million that occurred during his promotion of the fraudulent Fyre Festival music festival.
Scott Tyree	45380-083	Released from custody on September 22, 2021; served a 19 year and 7 month sentence.^[24]	Kidnapper of Alicia Kozakiewicz.^[25]^[26]
Alan Li	07507-506	Serving a 10-year sentence with a scheduled release in 2030, followed by 10 years of supervised release.^[27]	Li was a resident emergency medicine physician at Mount Sinai Medical Center when he was arrested and charged by the FBI in May 2022 for attempted child sex trafficking.^[28]