United States Penitentiary, Lompoc
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. It was formerly a military disciplinary barracks on Camp Cooke.
Location | Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, California |
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Coordinates | 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 |
FCC Lompoc is located within the city of Lompoc, 175 miles (282 km) northwest of Los Angeles, adjacent to Vandenberg Air Force Base.[1] The complex also includes a Federal Correctional Institution and a minimum-security prison camp.
Facility
The USP (Medium) security facility also contains a High security wing constructed in 2006 known as the "SHU" or "Special Housing Unit". Inmates may be placed in the SHU as a disciplinary measure or for administrative reasons.
The FCI (Low) has a Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP)
There are two minimum security prison camps that also house adult male inmates.[2]
Notable inmates
- Inmates released from custody prior to 1982 are not listed on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.
Current
Inmate Name | Register Number h | Status | Details |
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Auburn Calloway | 14601-076 | Serving consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole. | Hijacker of Federal Express Flight 705 in 1994. |
Kevin Harpham | 13663-085 | Scheduled for release in June 2038. | Pleaded guilty to bombings in Spokane in 2011. |
Mossimo Giannulli | 77808-112 | Serving five month sentence[3] | Charged with connection to the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. |
Former
Inmate Name | Register Number | Status | Details |
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Demetrius Flenory | 13037-078 | Now at FCI Sheridan | Co-founder of the Black Mafia Family criminal organization; pleaded guilty in 2007 to leading a national drug trafficking operation based in Detroit, Michigan with his brother, Terry Flenory, who was also sentenced to 30 years.[4] |
Ivan Boesky | 13987-054 | Released from custody in 1990; served 2 years. | Former leading Wall Street speculator; pleaded guilty in 1987 to conspiracy to file false stock trading records for making $80 million through an insider trading scheme.[5] |
Gene Haas | 43241-112 | Released from custody in 2009; served 16 months. | Haas pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy charge in 2007 for orchestrating a plan to list bogus expenses that could be written off as business costs and save Haas Automation millions in taxes.[6] [7] |
H.R. Haldeman | Unlisted* | Released from custody in 1978; served 18 months.[8] | 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.[9][10][11] |
Andre Louis Hicks | 55553-097 | Released from custody in 1996; served 4 years. | American rap artist known as Mac Dre and member of the Romper Room Gang, which was suspected of committing a series of bank robberies; convicted in 1992 of conspiracy for plotting to rob a bank in Fresno, California.[12][13][14][15] |
Herbert W. Kalmbach | Unlisted* | Released from custody in 1975; served 6 months.[16] | Personal attorney for President Richard Nixon; pleaded guilty in 1974 to illegally soliciting nearly $4 million in campaign funds.[9][17][18] |
Chuck Muncie | 03389-198 | Released from custody in 1992; served 18 months. | Former National Football League player; pleaded guilty in 1988 to selling cocaine to an undercover federal agent and perjury.[19][20] |
Eugene Plotkin | 58897-054 | Released from custody in 2011; served 3 years. | Former associate at Goldman Sachs; convicted in 2007 masterminding an insider trading conspiracy which netted $6.5 million; Plotkin's story was featured on the CNBC television program American Greed.[21][22] |
Reed Slatkin | 24057-112 | Released from custody in 2013; served 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; Slatkin's story was featured on the CNBC television program American Greed.[23][24][25] |
Hüseyin Yıldırım | 09542-018 | Released from custody and deported to his home country of Turkey in 2003; served 5 years. | Turkish national; convicted in 1989 of conspiring with spy James Hall III to sell classified information regarding US eavesdropping operations to East German and Soviet agents between 1983 and 1988.[26] |
Stephen Semprevivo | 77828-112 | Released from custody in 2020, served four month sentence | Charged with connection to the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. |
Devin Sloane | 77815-112 | Released from custody in 2020, served four month sentence | Charged with connection to the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. |
COVID-19 pandemic
A deadly COVID-19 outbreak swept through the federal correctional complex in 2020.[27] It included several dozen staff members, including guards.[28]
See also
- List of U.S. federal prisons
- Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Incarceration in the United States
References
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- "Ex-Goldman Associate Sentenced to More Than 4 Years for Inside Trades". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
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