Wikipedia: Butner, NC FCI is Home to Swindlers Bernard Madoff, John Rigas, Mafioso Carmine Persico and WTC Terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman,

Facilities

FCI Butner Medium, a facility in the complex

The complex consists of several facilities:^[2]

• FMC Butner, a Federal Medical Center housing male inmates of all security levels
• FCI Butner Medium, a medium-security Federal Correctional Institution
• FCI Butner Medium II, a medium-security Federal Correctional Institution
• FCI Butner Low, a low-security Federal Correctional Institution

Butner has the largest medical/psychological complex in the entire federal prison system. Butner is the home to one of the top two^{[clarification needed]} Drug Abuse Programs; the other is in Lexington, Kentucky.^[2]

Inmates are fed at a cost of about $2.70 a day for three meals.^[3] They have access to "a handful" of cable channels such as the Discovery Channel in common areas.^[3]

[edit] Inmates

Notable inmates include:

FCI Butner Low

• John Rigas, 53983-054, former CEO of Adelphia Communications Corporation convicted of bank, wire, and securities fraud. Rigas was accused of looting the corporation by concealing $2.3 billion in liabilities from corporate investors and of using corporation funds as personal funds.^[4][5]

FCI Butner Medium

• Bernard Madoff, 61727-054, former financier sentenced to 150 years for perpetrating a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.^[6][4][7]
• Carmine Persico, 74666-158, Boss of the Colombo crime family.^[8][9]
• Jonathan Pollard, 09185-016, civilian United States Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel.^[10][11]

FMC Butner

• Omar Abdel-Rahman, 34892-054, Islamic terrorist nicknamed "The Blind Sheik"; masterminded 1993 World Trade Center bombing.^[4][12]
• Russell Eugene Weston, Jr, 22372-016, murdered Detective John Gibson and Officer Jacob Chestnut after entering the United States Capitol.^[13][14]

Past notable inmates within the complex have included:

• Jim Bakker, televangelist imprisoned for accounting fraud.^[10]
• John Hinckley, Jr., attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan.^[10]
• Richard J. Schneiderhan, former Massachusetts State Police Lieutenant convicted of obstruction of justice stemming from his relationship with the Winter Hill Gang.^[15]