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{{Short description|Low-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, US}}
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| location       = Danbury, [[Fairfield County, Connecticut]]
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| status         = Operational
| classification = Low-security (with minimum-security prison camp)
| population     = 793 (46 in prison camp)
| opened         = 1940
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| managed_by     = [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]
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The '''Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury''' ('''FCI Danbury''') is a low-security United States [[federal prison]] for male and female inmates in [[Danbury, Connecticut]]. It is operated by the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]], a division of the [[United States Department of Justice]]. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security female offenders.
==History==
FCI Danbury was opened in August 1940 with the purpose of housing male and female inmates.<ref>{{cite web|title=Five Die in Danbury, Connecticut, Federal Correctional Institution Fire |website=[[National Fire Protection Association]] |quote=[[Fire Journal]] |date=March 1978 |url=http://www.nfpa.org/~/media/files/research/fire-investigations/federal_correctional_institute.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207170151/http://www.nfpa.org/~/media/files/research/fire-investigations/federal_correctional_institute.pdf |archive-date=February 7, 2016 }}</ref> It housed several high-profile prisoners during [[World War II]]. [[Conscientious objectors]], including poet [[Robert Lowell]] and civil rights activist [[James Peck (pacifist)|James Peck]], were housed there for refusing to enter the [[military draft]] in the early 1940s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Poet Robert Lowell sentenced to prison|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/poet-robert-lowell-sentenced-to-prison|publisher=history.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Robert Lowell's Letter to FDR|url=http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2008/08/robert-lowells.html|publisher=Dialog International}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Pace|first=Eric|title=James Peck, 78, Union Organizer Who Promoted Civil Rights Causes|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/13/obituaries/james-peck-78-union-organizer-who-promoted-civil-rights-causes.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 13, 1993}}</ref> [[Robert Henry Best]] served most of his life sentence at FCI Danbury after being convicted of [[treason]] in 1948 for making [[propaganda]] broadcasts for the [[Nazis]] during the war. [[Screenwriter]] [[Ring Lardner Jr.]], a member of the [[Hollywood 10]], a group of filmmakers who were charged with [[contempt of Congress]] in 1947 for refusing to answer questions regarding their alleged connections with the [[Communist Party USA]], served nine months there.<ref>{{cite news|last=Severo|first=Richard|title=Ring Lardner Jr., Wry Screenwriter and Last of the Hollywood 10, Dies at 85|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/02/movies/ring-lardner-jr-wry-screenwriter-and-last-of-the-hollywood-10-dies-at-85.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 2, 2000}}</ref>
Beginning in the 1970s, [[Yale Law School]] began providing legal services for prisoners at FCI Danbury.<ref name=Aronsetalp2>Arons, et al., p. 2.</ref> As of the 2010s, Yale students and professors still regularly visit the facility.<ref name=Aronsetalp7>Arons, et al., p. 7.</ref>
FCI Danbury became exclusively for female inmates in 1993.<ref>{{cite news|title=Danbury federal prison to switch to federal inmates|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19930204&id=TJdGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1305,430964|newspaper=The Day|date=February 4, 1993}}</ref> This was because there was a lack of space for women in the [[Northeastern United States]] and due to the growth in the number of female prisoners.<ref name=Aronsetalp8>Arons, et al p. 8.</ref>
In August 2013, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced that FCI Danbury was going to be reverted to an all-male facility to alleviate overcrowding across the entire federal prison system. The female inmate population will be transferred to the [[Federal Correctional Institution, Aliceville]] in Alabama, which opened in 2013 and has over 1,500 low-security beds for female inmates. It was estimated that the change would be completed by December 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Women Moved From Danbury Federal Prison As Institution Goes Male|url=http://danbury.dailyvoice.com/news/women-moved-danbury-federal-prison-institution-goes-male|publisher=Danbury Daily Voice|access-date=October 21, 2013|date=August 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=O'Malley|first=Denis|title=Inmates on the move at federal prison in Danbury|url=http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Inmates-on-the-move-at-federal-prison-in-Danbury-4910656.php|access-date=October 21, 2013|newspaper=[[The News-Times]] |date=October 19, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FCI Danbury|url=http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/dan/|publisher=Federal Bureau of Prisons|access-date=October 21, 2013}}</ref> However, female inmates were not transferred to other facilities until April 2014.
FCI Danbury and its camp were the only federal prisons in the Northeast which housed women, and the repurposing would further promote an imbalance of women's prisoner space within the BOP system.<ref name=Aronsetalp7/> In August 2013, 11 senators from the Northeast sent a letter to the BOP director criticizing the move, since it would mean there would be no facility for female federal prisoners from the Northeast; the move would mean that all of the women would be far from their families and loved ones. In November of that year several senators announced that at FCI Danbury the BOP would install a new low security camp for women and convert an existing minimum security camp into a low security camp for women to remedy the issue.<ref name=Aronsetalp2/> As of August 2014 there was no timeline for the installation of the new women's facilities,<ref>Aron, et al., p 3.</ref> no new construction had yet occurred at FCI Danbury. U.S. citizens would be eligible for the camps, but non-U.S. citizens would still be incarcerated farther away.<ref name=Aronsetalp2/> As of that time there were no federal women's prisons left in the Northeast.<ref name=Aronsetalp7/> ''[[Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison]]'' writer [[Piper Kerman]] criticized the move in an [[op-ed]] in ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>[[Piper Kerman|Kerman, Piper]]. "[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/opinion/for-women-a-second-sentence.html?_r=1 For Women, a Second Sentence]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220610042433/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/opinion/for-women-a-second-sentence.html?_r=2 Archive]). ''The New York Times''. August 13, 2013. Retrieved on March 27, 2016.</ref> A new $25 million women's facility was completed and began accepting female inmates in December 2016.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ryser|first1=Bob|url=https://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Federal-prison-reopening-to-women-10651725.php|title=Federal prison reopening to women|newspaper=The News-Times|date=December 2, 2016}}</ref>
In July 2024, former White House chief strategist [[Steve Bannon]] began serving a four month prison sentence at the facility for a contempt of Congress conviction.<ref>{{cite news |date=July 1, 2024 |title=Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon says he's 'proud' as he reports to Danbury prison |first1=Christina |last1=Dempsey |first2=Michael |last2=Gagne |url=https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/steve-bannon-reports-to-prison-danbury-ct-19545855.php |accessdate=July 1, 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
==Location and facilities==
FCI Danbury is located in southwestern Connecticut, approximately {{convert|55|mi|km}} from New York City,<ref>{{cite web|title=FCI Danbury|url=http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/dan/index.jsp|publisher=Federal Bureau of Prisons}}</ref> {{convert|60|mi|km}} from [[Hartford, Connecticut]], and {{convert|150|mi|km}} from [[Boston, Massachusetts]].<ref name=Aronsetalp8/>
The facility is accessible to a [[MetroNorth]] station fewer than {{convert|4|mi|km}} from the facility. Four [[Amtrak]] stations are within {{convert|30|mi|km}} from the facility.<ref name=Aronsetalp8/>
The prison had at one point included athletic facilities such as a running track, a soccer field, handball courts, a baseball diamond, and a handball field, since there is a large amount of outdoor area in the FCI Danbury property.<ref name=Aronsetalp8/>
==Programs==
Prior to the facility's conversion it offered [[General Education Development]] (GED) programs, paralegal classes, a group therapy program for people with [[post-traumatic stress disorder]] called the "Bridge Program", and a residential drug abuse program. The prison chaplain, religious groups, and volunteer groups had offered educational and other programming. In addition, prior to 1999 the prison hosted a "children's day" so inmates could spend time with their children.<ref name=Aronsetalp8/>
==Notable incidents==
===Deadly 1977 fire===
On July 7, 1977, at about 1:15&nbsp;am, a fire began in an inmate's clothes hanging on wooden pegs in one of the prison washrooms, and before it was extinguished about 45 minutes later, five inmates had died of smoke inhalation. The most significant factors contributing to the deadly fire were the presence of fuels that promoted rapid flame and smoke development, the failure to evacuate occupants quickly and reliably (the two primary exits were blocked by the fire and a broken key in a lock, leaving a narrow catwalk as the only exit), and the fire not being extinguished in an incipient stage. An automatic sprinkler system would have been the most reliable fire defense; however, even without automatic detection and suppression equipment, the fire safety system, with little expenditure of money, could have been more effective by revisions to emergency procedures in the fire plan. The Danbury Fire Department was not called until about 15 minutes after the fire's discovery because of a fire plan that called for initial use of the institution's firefighting resources, but the inmate fire brigade was never released from housing units and the institution's fire apparatus was never used. The ensuing public outcry led to several investigations and reviews of the prison's fire safety systems and protocols. A comprehensive program of fuel control, additional fire detection and suppression equipment, and training and planning sessions have also been established, not only at FCI Danbury but throughout the rest of the federal prison system.<ref>{{cite web|title=Danbury, Connecticut - Five Die in Federal Correctional Institution Fire (From Analyses of Three Multiple Fatality Penal Institution Fires, 1978)|url=https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=63943|publisher=National Fire Protection Association}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Danbury Prison Fire - What Happened? What Has Been Done To Prevent Recurrence?|url=http://www.gao.gov/assets/130/123848.pdf|publisher=General Accounting Office}}</ref>
===Correction Officer Michael Rudkin===
In 2008, supervisory staff at FCI Danbury discovered that Correction Officer Michael Rudkin had been having consensual sexual relations with a female inmate. When questioned, Rudkin, who was married at the time, admitted to the affair and stated that it had been going on for approximately one year. An [[FBI]] and [[United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General]]  (OIG) <ref>https://oig.justice.gov/reports/press/2010/2010_04_28.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> investigation revealed that Rudkin had sexual encounters with other inmates as well. Since it is illegal for prison staff to have sexual relations with inmates under their care regardless of consent, Rudkin pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of a ward and was sentenced to prison at the [[United States Penitentiary, Coleman]], a high-security facility in Florida.
Rudkin was subsequently convicted in 2010 of attempting to hire a [[hitman]] to kill his former inmate paramour, his ex-wife, his ex-wife's new boyfriend, and an OIG special agent assigned to his case while at [[USP Coleman]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jury Finds Former Federal Correctional Officer, Now an Inmate, Guilty of Attempts to Kill Federal Agent and Informant|url=https://www.fbi.gov/jacksonville/press-releases/2010/ja042810.htm|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation}}</ref> He was sentenced to 90 years in federal prison.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hudak|first=Stephen|title=Former federal corrections officer gets 90 years in prison for trying to arrange murders behind bars|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2010/07/18/former-federal-corrections-officer-gets-90-years-in-prison-for-trying-to-arrange-murders-behind-bars-2/|newspaper=Former federal corrections officer gets 90 years in prison for trying to arrange murders behind bars|date=July 18, 2010}}</ref> Rudkin was severely beaten at the [[United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute]] on August 23, 2021 and died the following day at the age of 56.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AP sources: Jailed ex-officer in murder plot beaten to death at federal prison in Terre Haute|date=26 August 2021|url=https://fox59.com/news/ap-sources-jailed-ex-officer-in-murder-plot-beaten-to-death-at-federal-prison-in-terre-haute/}}</ref>
==In popular culture==
The fictional Litchfield Prison in [[Upstate New York]] in the Netflix original television series ''[[Orange Is the New Black]]'' is based in part on FCI Danbury, where [[Piper Kerman]], who wrote the memoir on which the series is based, was incarcerated in 2004 and 2005 after her conviction for money laundering and drug trafficking.<ref>Cooper, Anneliese. "[http://www.bustle.com/articles/27129-orange-is-the-new-blacks-prison-location-isnt-real-but-its-not-entirely-fictional-either 'Orange Is the New Black's Prison Location Isn't Real, But It's Not Entirely Fictional Either]". ''[[Bustle (magazine)|Bustle]]''. June 6, 2014. Retrieved on March 27, 2016.</ref>
[[George Jung]] served a sentence at FCI Danbury. His incarceration was portrayed in the 2001 film ''[[Blow (film)|Blow]]'' starring [[Johnny Depp]].<ref name="wayward son BG">{{Cite news |last=Graham |first=Renee |title=Weymouth's Wayward Son |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=49 |date=July 7, 1993}}</ref>
The ''[[Weeds (television series)|Weeds]]'' character [[Nancy Botwin]] serves time at FCI Danbury.<ref name=BarryDoug/>
The ''[[Suits (U.S. TV series)|Suits]]'' character [[List of Suits characters#Mike Ross|Mike Ross]] begins Season 6 of the television show in FCI Danbury.<ref>"[https://eu.dispatch.com/story/entertainment/television/2016/07/18/patrick-j-adams-tells-character/23432133007/ Patrick J. Adams tells of character's journey in new 'Suits' season]. ''[[The Columbus Dispatch]]''</ref>
Gina Zanetakos of ''[[The Blacklist (TV series)|The Blacklist]]'' was incarcerated at FCI Danbury before she escaped.
In the 1995 movie ''[[The American President]]'', Presidential Assistant Lewis Rothschild (played by [[Michael J. Fox]]) says "Say what you want. It's always the guy in my job that ends up doing 18 months in Danbury minimum security prison."
In season 6 of ''[[The Sopranos]]'', the character John "Johnny Sacks" Sacramoni, the head of the New York mafia family (played by [[Vincent Curatola]]), was incarcerated at FCI Danbury.
In the 2023 series ''[[White House Plumbers (miniseries)|White House Plumbers]]'', G. Gordon Liddy (played by [[Justin Theroux]]) is promised he’ll serve the prison sentence for his role in the Watergate break-ins at FCI Danbury.
==Notable inmates==
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Steve Bannon]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=05635-509&x=81&y=23 05635-509]
| [[File:Steve Bannon (53423465976) (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| Turned himself in on Monday, 1st July, 2024. Scheduled for release October 29, 2024.<ref name = BanDanBrigger-A000>{{cite news
| last         = Lynch
| first        = Sarah N.
| date         = 2024-07-01
| title        = Trump ally Steve Bannon begins prison term for contempt
| url          = https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-ally-steve-bannon-report-prison-following-contempt-conviction-2024-07-01/
| work         = Thomson Reuters
| location     = reuters.com
| access-date  = 2024-07-01
| quote = "… Bannon arrived at a low-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, and spoke to reporters  …"
}}</ref>
| Bannon was a key adviser to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, then served as his chief White House strategist during 2017. Bannon is not the first former top official from Trump's White House to go to prison. [[Peter Navarro]], a former [[Donald Trump|Trump]] trade adviser, went to prison  after being given a four-month sentence. President Trump in 2021 pardoned Bannon on federal criminal charges accusing him of swindling Trump supporters involving an effort to raise private funds to build a wall on the [[Mexico–United States border]].<ref name = BanDanBrigger-A000 />
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Leona Helmsley]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=15113-054&x=81&y=23 15113-054]
| [[File:Leona Helmsley cropped mug.jpg|80px]]
| Released from custody in 1994; served 21 months.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bernstein|first1=Adam|title=Leona Helmsley, 87; ruthlessly ran part of hotel empire|url=https://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/08/21/leona_helmsley_87_ruthlessly_ran_part_of_hotel_empire/?page=full|access-date=October 17, 2015|work=[[Boston.com]]|date=August 21, 2007}}</ref>
| Upscale hotel owner and leading [[real estate]] investor in New York City; convicted of [[tax evasion]] in 1989 for failing to pay $1.7 million in taxes from 1983 to 1985; known as the "Queen of Mean" for her tyrannical management style.<ref>{{cite news|last=Goldman|first=John J.|title=Leona Helmsley Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison: Taxes: The hotel queen must surrender on April 15. Her plea to remain free to care for her ailing husband is rejected.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-19-mn-5943-story.html|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=March 19, 1992}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Sun Myung Moon]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=03835-054&x=0&y=0 03835-054]
| [[File:Sun Myung Moon.png|80px]]
| Released from custody in 1985; served 11 months.<ref>{{cite news|title=Moon to Be Released From Danbury Prison|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/03/nyregion/moon-to-be-released-from-danbury-prison.html|access-date=October 17, 2015|work=The New York Times|date=July 3, 1985}}</ref>
| Leader of the [[Unification Church]]; convicted of [[tax evasion]] in 1982; the ''[[United States v. Sun Myung Moon]]'' serves as a landmark case involving taxes and religious organizations.<ref>{{cite news|title=Moon Conviction Is Upheld by Court|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/14/nyregion/the-city-moon-conviction-isupheldbycourt.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 14, 1983}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Blair|first=William G.|title=Moon Released After 11 Months in a U.S. Prison|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/05/nyregion/moon-released-after-11-months-in-a-us-prison.html?ref=sunmyungmoon|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 5, 1985}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Lauryn Hill]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=64600-050&x=-259&y=-435 64600-050]
| [[File:LaurynHill crop.jpg|80px]]
| Released from custody in 2013; served 3 months.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Botelho|first1=Greg|title=Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill released from federal prison|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/showbiz/lauryn-hill-released-prison/|access-date=October 17, 2015|publisher=Cable News Network|date=October 7, 2013}}</ref>
| [[Grammy Award]]–winning singer and actress; pleaded guilty in 2012 to not reporting over $2.3 million in income by intentionally failing to file tax returns for five years.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/07/08/lauryn-hill-starts-prison-sentence/2499315/|title=Lauryn Hill starts prison sentence|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|date=July 9, 2013}}</ref><ref>[https://www.justice.gov/usao/nj/Press/files/Hill,%20Lauryn%20Sentencing%20News%20Release.html USDOJ: US Attorney's Office - District of New Jersey]. Justice.gov (May 6, 2013). Retrieved on 2013-10-23.</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Piper Kerman]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=11187-424&x=87&y=27 11187-424]
| [[File:Piper Kerman University of Missouri book signing (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| Released from custody in 2005; served 13 months.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Garcia|first1=Catherine|title=Orange is the New Black's Piper Kerman opens up about the catharsis of prison memoirs|url=https://theweek.com/articles/540378/orange-new-blacks-piper-kerman-opens-about-catharsis-prison-memoirs|website=The Week|publisher=Dennis Publishing|access-date=October 17, 2015|date=February 23, 2015}}</ref>
| Pleaded guilty to [[money laundering]] in 1998; authored ''[[Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison]]'' (2010), which chronicles her time at FCI Danbury; the [[Netflix]] television series ''[[Orange Is the New Black]]'' is based on Kerman's book.<ref>{{cite web|last=Humphrey|first=Michael|title=Ex-Convict Piper Kerman on Her Hot New Memoir, Orange Is the New Black|url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2010/03/piper_kerman.html|publisher=New York Media, LLC}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Teresa Giudice]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=65703-050 65703-050]
| [[File:Teresa Giudice at New York Fashion Week 2016.jpg|80px]]
| Served a 15-month sentence; released on December 23, 2015, after serving 12 months.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Takeda|first1=Allison|title=Teresa Giudice Prison Photo Reveals How Much She's Changed as She and Joe Open Up About Her Ordeal|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/teresa-giudice-prison-photo-reveals-dramatic-change-as-joe-opens-up-201514 |work=[[Us Weekly]]|access-date=October 18, 2015|publisher=Victoria Lasdon Rose|date=April 1, 2015}}</ref>
| Star of the [[Bravo (U.S. TV network)|Bravo]] television show ''[[Real Housewives of New Jersey]]''; she and her husband, Joe Giudice, pleaded guilty in 2014 to [[bankruptcy fraud]] and [[mail fraud]] for lying to banks and hiding assets in order to avoid paying taxes on $1 million; Joe Giudice received 41 months.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Nolan|first1=Caitlin|last2=McShane|first2=Larry|title=Teresa Giudice, Joe Giudice plead guilty to fraud charges; both face prison, while he could be deported|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/teresa-joe-giudice-plead-guilty-fraud-article-1.1710169|access-date=July 17, 2015|newspaper=New York Daily News|date=March 4, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Strohm|first1=Emily|last2=Rayford-Rubenstein|first2=Janine|title=Teresa Giudice Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison on Fraud Charges|url=http://www.people.com/article/teresa-joe-giudice-sentenced-fraud|access-date=July 17, 2015|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=October 2, 2014}}</ref>
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| align="center" | Alexander Salvagno
| align="center" | [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=11212-052&x=73&y=16 11212-052]
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| Was serving a 17-year sentence; [[Compassionate release|compassionately released]] on April 23, 2020.
| Former owner of Evergreen Resources, a fertilizer manufacturer; convicted in 1999 of ordering employees to handle and dispose of [[cyanide]] waste without required safety measures; received the longest sentence ever imposed for an [[environmental crime]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Idaho Man Given Longest-Ever Sentence for Environmental Crime|url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2000/April/239enrd.htm|publisher=US Department of Justice|access-date=October 27, 2013|date=April 29, 2000}}</ref>
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| align="center" | Ryan Michael Reavis
| align="center" | 25912-508
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| Serving a 10 year and 11 month sentence; scheduled for release in 2028.
| Convicted for his role is distrubing fentanyl to hip-hop artist/producer [[Mac Miller]] which contributed to his death in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/04/19/mac-miller-overdose-death-dealer-ryan-michael-reavis-sentenced-prison/7365020001/|title=Ryan Michael Reavis sentenced to 11 years in prison in Mac Miller's 2018 overdose death|website=USA Today|date=April 19, 2022}}</ref>
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| align="center" | [[Robert Lowell]]<ref name=BarryDoug>Barry, Doug. [http://jezebel.com/real-life-sister-ingalls-even-more-awesome-than-she-is-1021514216 "Real-Life Sister Ingalls Even More Awesome Than She Is on ''OITNB''"]. ''[[Jezebel (website)|Jezebel]]''. August 4, 2013. Retrieved on March 27, 2016.</ref>
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| [[File:Robert-lowell-by-elsa-dorfman (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| Served several months
| [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry|Pulitzer Prize]] winner for Poetry in 1947, was a [[conscientious objector]] during [[World War II]]<ref>[https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,796202,00.html "Army & Navy - Draft: Dodgers and Dissenters"], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', October 25, 1943, p.12.</ref>
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| align="center" | Sister [[Ardeth Platte]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://ncronline.org/blogs/grace-margins/nun-and-actress-behind-orange-new-black |title=The nun and the actress behind 'Orange is the New Black' |magazine=[[National Catholic Reporter]] |author=Jamie Manson |date=June 10, 2015 |access-date=December 21, 2020}}</ref>
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| Imprisoned until December 22, 2005; served 29 months
| [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] nun and antiwar activist; convicted of breaking into and defacing a Colorado [[LGM-30 Minuteman]] missile silo.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1222-11.htm |title=Nun Who Defaced Missile Silo Released from Prison |date=December 22, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714140148/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1222-11.htm |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |author=Matt Apuzzo}}</ref>
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| align="center" |  [[Sister Ping|Cheng Chui Ping]]
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| Transferred to a facility in Texas, died in 2014
| Also known as Sister Ping. Ran a human smuggling operation from New York City and Hong Kong from 1984 until 2000, when she was arrested in Hong Kong, extradited back to the United States.
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| align="center" |  [[Bob Jones (Grand Dragon)|Bob Jones]]
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| Released in January 1970.
| Grand Dragon of the North Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan; sentenced to a year in prison for contempt of Congress (refused to answer questions or provide records to the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] as part of its investigation into Klan activity).
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| align="center" |  [[Ring Lardner Jr.]]
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| Served 9 months
| An award-winning screenwriter sentenced to one year in prison in 1950 for contempt of Congress after appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 and refusing to answer questions about possible Communist affiliations.
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| align="center" |  [[James Peck (pacifist)|James Peck]]
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| Released in 1945 after serving 3 years
| An activist and conscientious objector who served a three-year stint in Danbury in the 1940s after refusing to serve in World War II. During his time in Danbury, Peck helped start a work strike that led to the desegregation of the prison's mess hall.
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| align="center" |  [[Michael Mancuso]]
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| Sentenced to 15 years in 2008, released in 2019 after serving 153 months (12 years 9 months).
| Mafia boss from New York, convicted of orchestrating the murder of a rival mafia member.
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| align="center" |  Karl Sebastian Greenwood
| align="center" |  76231-054
| [[File:Sebastian-greenwood-one-coin-profile-photo.jpg|80px]]
| Serving a 20-year sentence; scheduled for release on November 15, 2035.
| Co-founder of a massive fraud scheme called [[OneCoin]]. In September 2023, Greenwood was sentenced to a 20-year federal prison term (minus 5-years already served).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/co-founder-fake-cryptocurrency-scheme-sentenced-20-years-us-prison-2023-09-12/|title=Co-founder of fake cryptocurrency scheme sentenced to 20 years in US prison|website=Reuters|date=September 13, 2023|access-date=September 3, 2024}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Caroline Ellison]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [https://www.bop.gov/mobile/find_inmate/ 36854-510]
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| Serving a 2-year sentence; release date July 20, 2026.
| Former CEO of [[Alameda Research]] and ex-girlfriend of [[Sam Bankman-Fried]]; pleaded guilty to fraud and other crimes in the [[FTX scandal]].
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==See also==
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* [[List of U.S. federal prisons]]
* [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]
* [[Incarceration of women in the United States]]
==References==
* Arons, Anna, Katherine Culver, Emma Kaufman, Jennifer Yun, Hope Metcalf, Megan Quattlebaum, and Judith Resnik. [https://www.law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Liman/Liman_report__Dislocation_and_Relocation_Danbury_distribution__Aug__29_2014_%281%29.pdf "Dislocation and Relocation: Women in the Federal Prison System and Repurposing FCI Danbury for Men"]. [[Yale Law School]], Arthur Liman Public Interest Program. September 2014.
==Notes==
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==Further reading==
*Rosepiler, Vicki. [http://www.populist.com/04.9.letters.html "Martha Just One of Us"]. ''[[The Progressive Populist]]''. September 2004. - A letter to the editor from an FCI Danbury inmate
==External links==
* [http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/dan/index.jsp FCI Danbury]
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