Federal Correctional Complex, Butner is a U.S. federal prison complex located in Butner, North Carolina, United States, about 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Raleigh, the state capital.
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The complex consists of four facilities:[1]
Butner has the largest medical/psychological complex in the entire federal prison system. Butner is the home to one of the top two drug abuse programs; the other is in Lexington, Kentucky.[1]
Inmates are fed at a cost of about $2.70 a day for three meals.[2] In common areas they have access to "a handful" of cable channels such as the Discovery Channel.[2]
Notable inmates in each respective facility include:
| Name | Number | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jon Burge | 50504-018 | As of 2010 at Butner (Low)[3] | former Chicago Police Department detective and commander, who gained notoriety for allegedly torturing more than 200 criminal suspects between 1972 and 1991, in order to force confessions. In 2010, he was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury. |
| John Connolly | 22928-038 | Released to Florida custody, June 28, 2011[4] | former FBI agent, convicted of racketeering and obstruction of justice stemming from his relationship with James J. "Whitey" Bulger, Steve Flemmi, and the Winter Hill Gang. The scandal was the basis for the book Black Mass and is alluded to in the 2006 crime thriller film, The Departed. Now released, he has begun a 40-year sentence in Florida prison for the murder of a witness.[5] |
| Anthony Graziano | 48743-080 | As of 2010 at Butner (Low)[6] | former consigliere of the Bonanno crime family. |
| Peter Halat, Jr. | 20918-077 | As of 2010 at Butner (Low)[7] | former Mayor of Biloxi, Mississippi and a figure in the Kirksey Nix case |
| Keith Gordon Ham, also known as Kirtanananda Swami | 01120-087 | released on June 16, 2004 | co-founder of the New Vrindaban Hare Krishna community in West Virginia. In 1990 the US federal government indicted Kirtanananda on five counts of racketeering, six counts of mail fraud, and conspiracy to murder two of his opponents in the Hare Krishna movement (Chakradhari and Sulochan). In 1996, before Kirtanananda's retrial was completed, he pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering (mail fraud). He was sentenced to 20 years in prison but was released in 2004. |
| Thomas G. Manuel | 32566-018 | As of 2010 at Butner (Low) | former Chair of the St. Johns County, Florida Board of County Commissioners, who pled guilty to bribery in 2010. |
| John Rigas | 53983-054 | As of 2010 at Butner (Low)[8] | 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.[9] |
| Name | Number | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernard Madoff | 61727-054 | As of 2010 at Butner (Medium)[10] | former financier sentenced to 150 years for perpetrating a $65 billion Ponzi scheme.[9][11] |
| Carmine Persico | 74666-158 | As of 2010 at Butner (Medium)[12] | boss of the Colombo crime family.[13] |
| Jonathan Pollard | 09185-016 | As of 2010 at Butner (Medium)[14] | civilian United States Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel.[15] |
| Joseph Testa | 07556-054 | As of 2010 at Butner (Medium)[16] | DeMeo crew member, convicted of multiple murders |
| Name | Number | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omar Abdel-Rahman | 34892-054 | As of 2010 at Butner Med[17] | Islamic terrorist nicknamed "The Blind Sheikh"; masterminded 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[9] |
| Russell Eugene Weston, Jr | 22372-016 | As of 2010 at Butner Med[18] | murdered Detective John Gibson and Officer Jacob Chestnut in 1998 after entering the United States Capitol.[19] |
Past notable inmates within the complex have included:
| Name | Number | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Bakker | 07407-058 | Former inmate,[15] released December 1, 1994[20] | televangelist imprisoned for accounting fraud. |
| John Hinckley, Jr. | 00137-177 | Former inmate,[15] released August 18, 1981[21] | attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan. |
| Richard J. Schneiderhan | 23403-038 | Former inmate, released October 4, 2006[22] | former Massachusetts State Police Lieutenant convicted of obstruction of justice stemming from his relationship with the Winter Hill Gang.[23] |
| Sol Wachtler | 32571-054 | Former inmate, released October 26, 1994[24] | former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals pleaded guilty to sending messages to his ex-mistress threatening to kidnap her 14-year-old daughter.[25] |