Federal Correctional Institution, McKean

Federal Correctional Institution, McKean

Location	Lafayette Township, McKean County, [1] near Lewis Run, Pennsylvania
Status	Operational
Security class	Medium-Security (with minimum-security prison camp)
Population	1,500 (330 in prison camp)
Opened	1989
Managed by	Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Correctional Institution, McKean (FCI McKean) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Pennsylvania. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum-security male offenders.

FCI McKean is located in Lafayette Township, ^[1] in northwest Pennsylvania between the towns of Bradford and Kane, 90 miles south of Buffalo, New York. ^[2]

Notable incidents

2013 escape

On August 21, 2013, Locksley Milwood, who was serving a sentence for participating in a drug ring that smuggled ecstasy, methamphetamine, and marijuana into the U.S. from Canada, ^[3] escaped from the satellite prison camp adjacent to FCI McKean. The prison camp houses minimum-security inmates in dormitory housing, has a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio and limited or no perimeter fencing. Officers from the Pennsylvania State Police and surrounding municipal departments were alerted and participated in the search. Several hours later, an officer from the Bradford Township Police Department stopped a vehicle and found Milwood inside. ^[4] Milwood pleaded guilty to escape in December 2013 and was sentenced to two additional months in prison. He was then incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center, Lexington in Kentucky and was released in January of 2017. ^[5]

Notable inmates

Inmate name	Register number	Photo	Status	Details
Alphonse Persico	05517-054		Serving a life sentence.	Soldier and former acting boss of the Colombo crime family; convicted for the murder of William Cutolo on December 28, 2007. On February 27, 2009, Persico was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the Cutolo murder.[19]
Chaka Fattah	72340-066		Currently in custody of RRM Philadelphia.	Philadelphia politician who served as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1995–2016; sentenced to 10 years in imprisonment for racketeering. [6]
Wesley Snipes	43355-018		Released from custody in 2013; served 2 years. [7]	Actor, film producer and martial artist; convicted in 2008 of failing to file tax returns; Snipes was also ordered to pay $17 million in back taxes and IRS penalties. [8]
Joseph P. Ganim	14466-014 [ permanent dead link ]		Released from custody in 2010; served 7 years. [9]	Democratic Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1991 to 2003; convicted in 2003 of racketeering, conspiracy and other charges for receiving over $500,000 from private businesses in exchange for steering city contracts to them; reelected in 2015. [10] [11]
Denny McLain	04000-018		Released from custody in 2003; served 6 years. [12]	Major League baseball pitcher and two-time Cy Young Award winner; convicted in 1996 of money laundering, conspiracy, theft and mail fraud for stealing $3 million from the pension fund of a company he owned. [13] [14]
Prabhu Ramamoorthy	56234-039		Serving a 9-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2026.	Sexually assaulted a woman on a plane while she was sleeping next to him. [15]
Christopher Green	18486-050		Serving a life sentence	Killed four people while robbing a post office. [16]

See also

• United States portal
• Politics portal
• Law portal

• List of U.S. federal prisons
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Incarceration in the United States

References

1. "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Lafayette township, PA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved 2024-09-09. Federal Correctional Institution McKean
2. "FCI McKean". Federal Bureau of Prisons.
3. "25 Accused in International Drug Ring Bust". rochesterhomepage.net. Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. June 4, 2009. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
4. "Judges Sentences Inmate Caught Speeding Away from Federal Prison Camp". US Department of Justice. December 24, 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
5. "Federal Inmate Locator". Federal Bureau of Prisons. US Department of Justice. Retrieved 2 September 2025.
6. Griffin, Jessica (January 25, 2017). "Chaka Fattah reports to federal prison to begin 10-year sentence". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
7. "Actor Wesley Snipes released from prison". CNN. April 7, 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
8. "Wesley Snipes Gets 3 Years for Not Filing Tax Returns". The New York Times. April 25, 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
9. Mayko, Michael P. (October 1, 2009). "Ganim's sentence reduced; former mayor to be released next summer". Hearst Media Services Connecticut, LLC. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
10. "United States Attorney's Office District of Connecticut: FORMER BRIDGEPORT MAYOR SENTENCED TO NINE YEARS IN PRISON". www.doj.gov. US Department of Justice. July 1, 2003. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
11. Associated Press (February 11, 2009). "Ganim moved to federal prison in Pa". New Haven Register. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
12. Green, Jerry (October 29, 2003). "There's never been any like Denny McLain". USA TODAY. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
13. "Ex-Baseball Star and His Partner Are Convicted of Pension Fraud". Associated Press. 14 December 1996 – via www.nytimes.com.
14. Staff, From; Reports, Wire (8 May 1997). "McLain Gets 8-Year Sentence on Pension Theft Conviction" – via LA Times.
15. Romo, Vanessa (2018-12-13). "Man Who Sexually Assaulted Woman On Plane Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison". NPR. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
16. NJ.com, Dan Ivers | NJ Advance Media for (2015-03-23). "2 decades later, Montclair reflects on deadly post office shooting". nj. Retrieved 2022-04-07.

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