United States Penitentiary, Lompoc

United States Penitentiary, Lompoc
Location Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, California
Coordinates 34°40′34″N 120°30′21″W / 34.6762°N 120.5057°WCoordinates: 34°40′34″N 120°30′21″W / 34.6762°N 120.5057°W
Status Operational
Security class Medium-security (with minimum-security prison camp)
Population 1,500 (520 in prison camp)
Managed by Federal Bureau of Prisons

The United States Penitentiary, Lompoc (USP Lompoc) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in California. It is part of the Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex (FCC Lompoc) and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has a satellite prison camp for minimum-security male inmates.

FCC Lompoc is located within the city of Lompoc, 175 miles (282 km) northwest of Los Angeles, adjacent to Vandenberg Air Force Base.[1]

Facility

The Medium security complex also contains a maximum security wing constructed in 2006 known as the "SHU" or "Special Housing Unit". Inmates in the SHU remain in their cells 24/7 as the cells are equipped with showers. Inmates may be placed in the SHU as a disciplinary measure or for administrative reasons. The treatment of inmates in the SHU is comparable to that found at the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, the federal supermax prison in Colorado.

There are two minimum security prison camps that also house adult male inmates. One is a Federal Prison Camp, the other is a Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Camp.[2]

Notable inmates

Public corruption

Inmate Name Register Number Status Details
H.R. Haldeman Unlisted* Released from custody in 1978 after serving 18 months. White House Chief of Staff for President Richard Nixon and key figure in the Watergate scandal; convicted in 1975 of conspiracy and obstruction of justice.[3][4][5]
Herbert W. Kalmbach Unlisted* Released from custody in 1975 after serving 6 months. Personal attorney for President Richard Nixon; pleaded guilty in 1974 to illegally soliciting nearly $4 million in campaign funds.[3][6][7]

Financial crimes

Inmate Name Register Number Status Details
Ivan Boesky 13987-054 Released from federal custody in 1990 after serving 2 years. Former leading Wall Street speculator; pleaded guilty in 1987 to conspiring to file false stock trading records for making $80 million through an insider trading scheme.[8]
Reed Slatkin 24057-112 Released July 6th, 2013 after serving 14 years. Co-founder of EarthLink; pleaded guilty in 2002 to mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to obstruct justice for stealing $593 million from investors in one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in US history.[9][10]
Eugene Plotkin 58897-054 Released from custody in 2011 after serving 3 years. Former fixed-income associate at Goldman Sachs; convicted in 2007 masterminding a large-scale insider trading conspiracy which netted $6.5 million; Plotkin's story was featured on the CNBC television program American Greed.[11][12][13]

Other crimes

Inmate Name Register Number Status Details
Manuel Barba 17401-078 Currently serving a 17-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2026. Texas drug trafficker; pleaded guilty to the illegal exportation of firearms for supplying guns to the Los Zetas Drug Cartel in Mexico, one of which was used in the fatal shooting of Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Jaime Zapata in 2011.[14][15]
Chuck Muncie 03389-198 Released from custody in 1992 after serving 18 months. Former National Football League player; pleaded guilty in 1988 to selling cocaine to an undercover federal agent and perjury. [16][17]
Andre Hicks 55553-097 Released from custody in 1999 after serving 7 years. American rap artist known as Mac Dre and gang member; convicted in 1992 of conspiracy to commit bank robbery for plotting to rob a bank in Fresno, California.[18][19][20]
Hüseyin Yıldırım 09542-018 Released on December 29, 2003 and extradited to his home country Turkey. Convicted life sentence of espionage in 1989 for his courier role in the James Hall III espionage activity.[21][22]

See also


References

  1. ↑ http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/lom/index.jsp
  2. ↑ "FCC Lompoc". Federal Bureau of Prisons. 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-07.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Corwin, Miles "Los Angeles Times", July 30, 1990, Accessed January 29, 2011
  4. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/halobit.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a010175watergateconvict&scale=0#a010175watergateconvict
  6. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19750109&id=-usgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GnIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5916,1091633
  7. ↑ "Kalmbach Sentenced To 6-18 Months In Jail". Charleston News and Courier. 17 June 1974. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  8. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/19/business/boesky-sentenced-to-3-years-in-jail-in-insider-scandal.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
  9. ↑ http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/invest/2002/04/30/earthlink-fraud.htm
  10. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2003/sep/03/business/fi-slatkin3
  11. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/business/04insider.html?_r=0
  12. ↑ http://media.ft.com/cms/143ba8e4-64e3-11de-a13f-00144feabdc0.swf?width=559&height=444&bgcolor=
  13. ↑ http://www.cnbc.com/id/27087339/
  14. ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-57383089-10391695/second-gun-used-in-ice-agent-murder-linked-to-atf-undercover-operation/
  15. ↑ http://www.atf.gov/press/releases/2012/01/013012-hou-baytown-man-gets-more-federal-prison-time-for-exportation-of-firearms.html
  16. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/22/sports/sports-people-football-muncie-is-sentenced.html
  17. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/27/sports/sports-people-football-muncie-jailed.html?n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fT%2fTests%20and%20Testing
  18. ↑ http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/BTTL_rappergonebad.html
  19. ↑ http://blog.aacriminallaw.com/drug-offenses/thizz-entertainment-rap-label-busted-nationwide-drug-trafficking/
  20. ↑ http://www.mac-dre.info/interviews/strivin-magazine.php
  21. ↑ "Convicted of Espionage". FAS. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  22. ↑ "Romance with a Secret Agent". Oocities.org. 1998-02-24. Retrieved 2014-03-02.