Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee
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Location | Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. |
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Status | Operational |
Security class | Minimum security |
Population | 863 (January 2020) |
Opened | January 1938 |
Managed by | Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee (FCI Tallahassee), is a minimum security United States federal prison for female inmates in Tallahassee, Florida. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent detention center that houses administrative security level male inmates.
FCI Tallahassee is located three miles (5 km) east of downtown Tallahassee on US Highway 319.[1]
Notable incidents[]
2006 shootings[]
On June 21, 2006 at 7:42 a.m. local time, Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General agents attempted to arrest six correctional officers in connection to a corruption investigation into correctional officers trading drugs and other contraband for sex with female inmates. One of the officers, Ralph Hill, used a personal handgun and opened fire on the agents. He killed William "Buddy" Sentner, an agent with the DOJ Office of Inspector General. Hill was also killed. A lieutenant with the Federal Bureau of Prisons was injured in the shooting and transported to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.
The shooting began in the lobby of the building and moved into the courtyard near the US 319 highway. Federal officers were unarmed at the time and the officers were to have been unarmed as well. Michael Folmar, the FBI's special agent in charge in Jacksonville, said "This arrest situation was done in a manner to be very controlled ... where nobody would have any weapons, and we could take this down so there wouldn't be any violence, and this is exactly how it would be handled normally across the United States."[2] The officers to be arrested, Alfred Barnes, Gregory Dixon, Alan Moore and E. Lavon Spence, were transported to Wakulla County Jail south of Tallahassee. Vincent Johnson, the last officer named in the indictment, was not involved in the sexual misconduct, but was alleged to have illegally influenced the prisoners to engage in the behavior.[3]
Notable inmates[]
Inmate name | Register No. | Status | Details | |
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Colleen LaRose | 61657-066 | Served 10 years; released in November 2018.[4] | US citizen known as "Jihad Jane;" pleaded guilty in 2011 to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism and conspiracy to kill in a foreign country for using the Internet to recruit people to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe. | |
Chelsea Gerlach | 69097-065 | Released from custody in 2013; served 6 years.[5] | Member of the ecoterrorist group Earth Liberation Front (ELF); pleaded guilty in 2006 to committing arson at the Vail Ski Resort in Colorado and businesses in Oregon between 1996 and 2001; several other members were also sentenced to prison.[6][7][8] | |
Maria Butina | 35406-016 | Served an 18-month sentence; released in October 2019[9] | Convicted of the Espionage act. Was deported back to Russia after her release from Federal Custody.[9] | |
Catherine May Wood | 05523-045 | Served a 20–40 year sentence; released January 16, 2020.[10][11] | Serial killer who murdered nursing home patients in conjunction with her lesbian partner Gwendolyn Graham. | |
Narcisa Veliz Novack | 91518-004 | Life in prison without parole for the beating deaths of her husband and mother-in-law.[12] | In 2009, Bernice Novack and her son, multi-millionaire Ben Novack Jr., were murdered three months apart. Narcy Novack (née Narcisa Véliz Novack), Ben's estranged wife, was convicted of orchestrating the murders.[12] | |
John Paul Scott | Died in 1987 | Known as the only escapee from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary known to have reached the San Francisco shore by swimming. | ||
Jaelyn Delshaun Young | 16906-042 | Scheduled for release on January 20, 2025 | American woman from Vicksburg, Mississippi, who was convicted of attempting to join ISIS with her fiancé, Muhammad "Moe" Dakhlalla. On August 11, 2016, Young was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Dakhlalla pleaded guilty and testified against Young and received 8 years in prison. | |
Mary Wilkerson | 96283-020 | Released on February 4, 2020. | Former quality assurance manager of the Peanut Corporation of America.[13] | |
Kidada Savage | 04867-748 | Serving a Life Sentence | Sister of Kaboni Savage helped plot for the crime by retaliating against witnesses and aiding racketeering and hiring two hitmen Lamont Lewis and Robert Merritt, Lewis is serving 40 years, Merritt is serving life, and Kaboni was sentenced to death. |
See also[]
- List of U.S. federal prisons
References[]
- ^ "FCI Tallahassee". Federal Bureau of Prisons.
- ^ "Sex and drug arrest triggers deadly Florida prison gunfight". CNN. 2006-06-22. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ Associated Press. "2 federal employees die in Fla. prison shooting". MSNBC. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
- ^ Dale, Maryclaire (January 8, 2014). "Colo. Woman Gets 8 Years in Pa. in Jihadist Plot". ABC News. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ^ "Moved to Tallahassee". August 17, 2010. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
- ^ Lipsher, Steve (May 25, 2007). "Nine years for Vail eco-terrorist". Denver Post. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
- ^ "OAKLAND WOMAN SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS IN PRISON FOR 2001 ARSON AT UW CENTER FOR URBAN HORTICULTURE". US Department of Justice. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
- ^ Yardley, William (May 26, 2007). "Radical Environmentalist Gets 9-Year Term". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
- ^ a b "Maria Butina, convicted for conspiracy in U.S, deported to Russia". CBC & The Associated Press. 26 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ "'American Horror Story' Season 6 Spoilers: Who Is Gwen Graham and Cathy Wood? The Truth About The 'Roanoke' Nurses". International Business Times. September 22, 2016.
- ^ Paine, Hannah (24 January 2020). "'Could do it again': Warning as killer freed". News.com.au — Australia's Leading News Site.
- ^ a b "Alejandro Garcia Sentenced In White Plains Federal Court To 17 Years And Six Months In Prison For The Beating Deaths Of Ben And Bernice Novack". www.justice.gov. U.S. Department of Justice | Southern District of New York. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
- ^ "Ill-fated quality control officer for Peanut Corp of America freed from federal custody". Food Safety News. February 9, 2020.
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Coordinates: 30°26′42″N 84°13′31″W / 30.4451°N 84.2254°W
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