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unusual facts about Federal Correctional Institution, Butner



Adrian Cooper

He is currently located at the Federal Prison in El Reno, Oklahoma.

Bernard Glueck, Sr.

After retiring in 1947, Glueck continued to work for the Veterans Administration, the University of North Carolina, and John Umstead Hospital in Butner, North Carolina.

Carl Gugasian

He is serving his time at the Federal Correctional Institution at Fairton, New Jersey, where he teaches calculus to other inmates.

Chantal McCorkle

After being transferred from FCI Dublin in California, as of July 2009 she was an inmate at FMC Carswell (Fort Worth, Texas) in the United States with an expected prison sentence expiry date of 7 July 2014.

Chris Lamprecht

Under the order of Judge Sam Sparks of the US District Court in 1995, Lamprecht was ordered to 70 months in the Federal Correctional Institution, Bastrop.

Crato Bütner

Crato Bütner (Sonneberg, 1616—1679) was a German Baroque composer who was kantor and organist in Danzig (Polish: Gdańsk), first at the hospital church of St Salvator, then at Gdańsk's oldest church, St Catherine's.

Dominick Pizzonia

As of December 2011, Pizzonia is serving his sentence at the Butner Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Butner, North Carolina.

Earl Krugel

On November 4, 2005, at the Federal Correctional Institution in Phoenix, Arizona, Krugel was murdered by another inmate, who used a concrete block to strike his head.

Federal Correctional Institution, Ashland

FCI Ashland's primary service area includes Kentucky, southern Indiana, southern Ohio, western Pennsylvania (Greater Pittsburgh), Tennessee, and West Virginia.

Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury

In a Season 7 episode of CSI: NY, entitled "Identity Crisis", it is revealed that the biological mother of Detective Jo Danville's adopted daughter, Ellie, is serving a long sentence at FCI Danbury.

The Netflix television series Orange Is The New Black is based on the memoir of former inmate Piper Kerman and takes place in a prison based on FCI Danbury.

In the 1995 film The American President, White House aide 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."

Federal Correctional Institution, Milan

Helen Gillis and Evelyn Frechette, the wives of notorious bank robbers Baby Face Nelson and John Dillinger, served one-year sentences at FCI Milan in the mid-1930s after being convicted of aiding their husbands evade authorities.

Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville

After the attack on Pearl Harbor the government converted the center into a Federal Detention Station for enemy aliens, monitored by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, which held German, Italian, and Japanese families.

Federal Prison Camp, Duluth

Hecker has since been transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto, a low-security facility in Pennsylvania with an adjacent minimum-security satellite prison camp.

Gene Gotti

As of August 2013, Gene Gotti is imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution, Pollock in Pollock, Louisiana, where he has been since 1989.

Henry W. Butner

Before being promoted to major general on 1 February 1936, Butner commanded additional units and had once again traveled across America before taking command of the Panama Canal Department.

Hobart Huson

In September 2003 Huson started an eight-year term in Federal Correctional Institution, Bastrop in Bastrop County, Texas for drug related charges related to his business.

Milan, Michigan

A Federal Bureau of Prisons prison, the Federal Correctional Institution, Milan (FCI), is in adjacent York Charter Township.

Noah W. Cross

Cross then resigned as sheriff to enter the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas.

Norman Carlson

During his 30 year involvement, he served in the United States Penitentiary of Leavenworth, Kansas, and also in the Federal Correctional Institution of Ashland, Kentucky.

Paddy Mitchell

Mitchell was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2006 and died in the Federal Medical Centre in Butner, N.C. in the prison hospital at age 64.

Pan Am Flight 73

He is serving his 160 year sentence at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Richard G. Gotti

As of June 2010, Gotti is currently serving his sentence in at the Schuylkill Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Minersville, Pennsylvania.

Richard J. Schneiderhan

Schneiderhan was remanded to the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina.

Road Trips Volume 1 Number 3

:Terminal Island Correctional Facility, Santa Ana, California, August 4, 1971:

Salt of the Earth

Biberman was imprisoned in the Federal Correctional Institution at Texarkana for six months.

Sol Wachtler

He served a 15-month sentence, first at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, N.C., and later at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn., after he had been stabbed in the shoulder while dozing in his cell.

Stacey Koon

Koon served his sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, and the Federal Work Camp in Sheridan, Oregon.

The Thrill Killers

The female lead Liz Renay was a friend of Bardo's and had just finished a 27-month prison sentence on Terminal Island for perjury involving her then-boyfriend, gangster Mickey Cohen.

Timothy Villagomez

He was sent to the Federal Correctional Institution at Phoenix, Arizona.


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