Federal Correctional Complex, Allenwood

Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) is a United States Federal Bureau of Prisons facility located on U.S. Route 15 in Gregg Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.^[1][2] The prison, at the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, is on U.S. Route 15, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Allenwood, 11 miles (18 km) south of Williamsport, and 197 miles (317 km) north of Washington, DC.^[3] It is near White Deer.^[4]

It consists of three facilities, all for male inmates:

• FCI Allenwood Low - A low security Federal Correctional Institution
• FCI Allenwood Medium - A medium security Federal Correctional Institution
• USP Allenwood - High security United States Penitentiary

Notable inmates

• Aldrich Ames: former CIA agent and convicted Soviet/Russian spy is serving a life sentence.
• Gerald Bull: head of Space Research Corporation, for illegally exporting howitzer shells to the then-embargoed South African government.
• Louis Daidone: former New York City mobster and Lucchese family boss, serving a life sentence for racketeering.
• Larry Levenson: First owner of Plato's Retreat which was a swingers' club in New York City, convicted of tax evasion.
• Gerald McCann: former mayor of Jersey City convicted of fraud in a savings and loan scam.
• John Stanfa: convicted Philadelphia mobster serving five life sentences.
• James Traficant: former U.S. Representative from Ohio convicted of bribery, racketeering, and tax evasion.
• Thomas Pitera: mafia capo for the Bonnano crime family, serving a life sentence.
• Clifford Irving: author. Convicted of forging the autobiography of Howard Hughes.
• David Paul Hammer: killed his cellmate within USP Allenwood^[5]
• Henry Hill: associate for the Lucchese crime family served six years to a ten-year sentence for extortion in 1972 and was released in 1978.
• Raymond F. Lederer, a Pennsylvania Congressman, convicted in ABSCAM in 1981.

References

External links

• United States Federal Bureau of Prisons FCC Allenwood