Federal Prison Camp, Pensacola

Federal Prison Camp, Pensacola
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Location110 Raby Avenue, Pensacola postal address, Escambia County, Florida
Coordinates30°27′48″N 87°20′36″W / 30.4634°N 87.3432°W / 30.4634; -87.3432
StatusOperational
Security classMinimum-security
Population434 (April 2024)[1]
Managed byW.L Woods, Warden Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Prison Camp, Pensacola (FPC Pensacola) is a minimum-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Escambia County, Florida,[2] near Pensacola. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.

FPC Pensacola is located on Saufley Field, an outlying field of Naval Air Station Pensacola, 175 miles west of the state capital of Tallahassee and 50 miles east of Mobile, Alabama.[3]

History

Operations began in 1988 when the Bureau of Prisons negotiated a partnership with the United States Navy to lease land and several excess buildings at Saufley Field in exchange for inmate labor. In 2006, the Bureau of Prisons decided to cut costs by closing the Federal Prison Camp, Eglin, which was located at Eglin Air Force Base, in Okaloosa County, Florida, and moving the inmates to FPC Pensacola.[4] In July 2009, Forbes magazine listed the prison as the number two "cushiest prison" in the United States.[5] In October 2006 the United States Department of Justice indicted four people for bribery and providing contraband to inmates at the prison.[6] In March 2007, the prison made headlines when an inmate escaped from a work detail at Naval Air Station Pensacola.[7]

In December 2024, it was learned that the facility will soon be closed, with approximately 500 inmates and 100 staff members being relocated to other facilities. The buildings, which are in “significant disrepair”, will be demolished after the closure.[8]

Notable inmates (current and former)

Inmate Name Register Number Photo Status Details
Tim Donaghy 75377-053 Released from custody in 2009; served 11 months. Former NBA referee; pleaded guilty in 2007 to wire fraud conspiracy and illegally transmitting betting information for accepting thousands of dollars from professional gambler James Batista in exchange for providing inside information on games.[9][10]
Chris Collins 86014-054[permanent dead link‍] Formerly incarcerated; pardoned by President Trump on 22 December 2020. U.S. Representative from New York's 27th district. Convicted of insider trading.
Billy Walters 25880-048 Formerly incarcerated; sentence commuted on January 20, 2021, by President Trump. Professional sports gambler convicted of insider trading related to Dean Foods Co. Walters was convicted of leveraging insider information, that was provided to him by former Dean Foods Co. Chairman Tom Davis, into millions of dollars in profits. Professional Golfer Phil Mickelson was also named in the investigation.
Irvin Mayfield 37328–034 Serving an 18-month sentence. Jazz trumpeter guilty of the New Orleans Library scandal.
Robert M. Freeman 13691–054 Released from custody in 1990; served 4 months. Goldman Sachs partner; convicted of insider trading.
Douglas Green 20952-077 Released from custody in 2003; served 12 years. Louisiana insurance commissioner from 1988 to 1991; convicted in 1991 of conspiracy, mail fraud and money laundering for using his position to prop up a failing insurance company in exchange for $2.7 million in bribes.[11]
Paul H. Jones 55193-060 Released from federal custody in 2008 and transferred to an Ohio state prison. Mayor of Ravenna, Ohio, from 1976 to 1982 and 1996 to 2005; convicted in 2010 of mail fraud and filing false tax returns for using his position to assist his son's business make over $260,000 in profits and failing to report those profits to the IRS.[12][13][14]
Scott Maddox 26266–017 Moved to FCI Talladega, released on 9 May 2023. Former Tallahassee City Commissioner sentenced to 5 years for bribery.
Robert Powell 15110-067 Released from custody in 2013; served 18 months. Developer of two for-profit juvenile prisons in Pennsylvania; pleaded guilty to paying $770,000 to two judges in exchange for sentencing juveniles to serve time in those prisons; known as the Kids for Cash scandal.[15][16]
Mike Berlon 66280-019[permanent dead link‍] Released from custody in 2020; served 5 years and 3 months. Lawyer, Politician and long time Political Strategist. Former Chairman of the Georgia State Democratic Party and Member of the Democratic National Committee's executive committee. Berlon pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud involving misuse of funds from his law firm in 2015.
Mark Whitacre 07543-424 Released from custody in 2007; served 8 years. FBI informant who assisted in the ADM price-fixing investigation; pleaded guilty in 1997 to embezzling $9 million from the company; Whitacre was the subject of the 2009 Steven Soderbergh film The Informant!.[17][18]
Howard D. Farley 20037-509 Released on 7/19/2023. Farley was sentenced to 4 years in prison for being the leader of one of the largest drug-trafficking rings in Nebraska history.[19]
Todd Chrisley 72600-019
Todd and Savannah Chrisley interviewed by RumorFix.jpg
 Reported for 12-year sentence on January 17, 2023. Scheduled release date (03/18/2033). Todd and wife Julie Chrisley were sentenced to prison in November 2022 for fraud and tax crimes.[20]
William Rick Singer 01452-138 Reported for 3-year and 6-month sentence on February 27, 2023. Pled guilty to four felony counts of conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice as the mastermind of the Varsity Blues scandal.[21][22]

See also

References

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