Federal Correctional Institution, Herlong

Federal Correctional Institution, Herlong
Location Lassen County,
near Herlong, California
Coordinates 40°09′00″N 120°10′05″W / 40.150°N 120.168°WCoordinates: 40°09′00″N 120°10′05″W / 40.150°N 120.168°W
Status Operational
Security class Medium-security (with minimum-security prison camp)
Population 1,640 (145 in prison camp)
Managed by Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Correctional Institution, Herlong (FCI Herlong) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in California. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also includes a satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security male offenders.

FCI Herlong is located in northeastern California near the Nevada border, approximately 60 miles northwest of Reno, Nevada and 190 miles northeast of Sacramento, California, the state capital.[1]

Notable incidents

In 2009, a joint investigation conducted by the Bureau of Prisons, the FBI and the IRS uncovered a scheme where three inmates at FCI Herlong, Scott Whitney, Diego Paucar and Erik Alexander, filled out false tax returns for other inmates seeking refunds. In order to portray the inmates as taxpayers, they made false W-2 forms using the names of real employers, but for whom the inmates had not worked. The IRS discovered the scheme and no refunds were paid. If the scheme had been successful, the three co-conspirators would have obtained $93,950 from the IRS. Whitney, Paucar and Alexander subsequently pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the IRS and had seven, four, and three years added to their original sentences, respectively.[2][3]

Notable Inmates (current and former)

Inmate Name Register Number Status Details
Alwar Pouryan 65030-054 Serving a 25-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2032. Former US Army translator; convicted in 2013 of conspiracy for arranging to provide $25 million worth of weapons, ammunition and training to confidential DEA sources posing as Taliban representatives in exchange for the proceeds from heroin trafficking.[4]
James Springette 11333-021 Serving a 35-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2032. Drug kingpin and former FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive; pleaded guilty to drug trafficking in 2003 for running a cartel which airdropped 2,000 kilos of Columbian cocaine into the Caribbean Sea every month to be transported into the US during the 1990s.[5][6][7]
Kevin Harpham 13663-085 Serving a 32-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2039. White supremacist; pleaded guilty in September 2011 to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction for planting a bomb filled with shrapnel along the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, Washington in January 2011.[8][9]
Tre Arrow 70936-065 Released from custody in 2009 after serving 5 years in Canada and the United States. Member of the ecoterrorist group Earth Liberation Front and former FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive; pleaded guilty to arson in 2008 for setting fire to cement trucks and logging trucks in Oregon in 2001.[10]
Javier Diaz-Castro 35942-069 Serving a 40-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2045. Former officer for the San Juan Police Department in Puerto Rico; arrested during the largest police corruption investigation in FBI history; convicted of drug trafficking in 2012 for providing security during cocaine deals in exchange for money.[11]

See also


References

  1. ↑ "FCI Herlong". Federal Bureau of Prisons.
  2. ↑ "Prisoner Caught in a Scheme to Defraud the IRS Sentenced to More Than Seven Years". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "Last Defendant Sentenced in Scheme to File Fraudulent Tax Returns from Herlong Prison". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  4. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/25/us-usa-taliban-sting-idUSBRE98O1BZ20130925
  5. ↑ "The Federal Bureau of Investigation today placed James Spencer Springette on its "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  6. ↑ Smithen, Corliss (May 26, 2010). "Jailed V.I. drug lord Springette takes stand". Virgin Islands Daily News. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  7. ↑ "James Springette". Myra Panache. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  8. ↑ Geranios, Nicholas K. (December 21, 2011). "MLK parade bomber sentenced to 32 years in prison". Associated Press. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  9. ↑ "Washington Man Sentenced to 32 Years for Attempted Bombing of Martin Luther King Unity March". US Department of Justice - Office of Public Affairs. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  10. ↑ "Support the Eco-Prisoners (November 2008)". Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  11. ↑ "Former Puerto Rico officer sentenced to 40 years in corruption sting". CNN. July 12, 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2013.

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