Facilities
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]
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