Federal Prison Camp, Eglin was a Federal Bureau of Prisons minimum security prison at Auxiliary Field 6, Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. [1]
Lacey Rose of Forbes wrote that it "was once considered so cushy that the term "Club Fed" was actually coined to describe it." [2]
By 2006 the federal government decided to cut costs by closing Eglin and returning the buildings to the Air Force. The prisoners were moved to Federal Prison Camp, Pensacola. [3]
The five Watergate burglars - Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martínez, James W. McCord Jr., and Frank Sturgis - were inmates at Eglin. [4]
| Name | Number | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack P.F. Gremillion | N/A | Confined for two years after losing in 1973 his appeal of his 1971 conviction of lying to a grand jury about his involvement in the Louisiana Loan and Thrift case. He was subsequently readmitted to the bar. [5] | Attorney General of Louisiana from 1956 to 1972 |
| Edward Mezvinsky | 55040-066 | Released | former member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa |
| Louis Wolfson | N/A | Held at FCI, Eglin [6] | former Wall Street financier |
| Steve Madden | 49498-054 | Held at Eglin | former head of Steve Madden, LTD |
| Robert Mason (writer) | 81349-071 | Imprisoned at Eglin in the early 1980s for drug trafficking. Wrote about these in the book Chickenhawk: Back in the World | Writer of Chickenhawk |
| Marvin Mandel | 12100-037 | Released | former governor of Maryland |
| James A. Kelly Jr. | 14231-038 | Released | Former Massachusetts State Senator. Convicted of extortion. [7] |
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