Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island
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| Location | on Terminal Island and in San Pedro, Los Angeles. |
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| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Male |
| Capacity | 1,200 |
| Managed by | Federal Bureau of Prisons |
Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island (FCI Terminal Island) is a low-security prison for men located on Reservation Point on Terminal Island and in San Pedro, Los Angeles. The other Federal prison in the Los Angeles area is the Metropolitan Detention Center in Downtown Los Angeles. They are both managed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons Western Regional Office in Stockton, California. In 2005, the prison housed just under 1,200 prisoners.
Federal Prison Industries (a US govt. program) has a shop at FCI Terminal Island using prison labor that specializes in repairing, refurbishing, and reconditioning furniture, office equipment, tires, and other types of Government property.
[edit] Notable inmates
| Name | Number | Status | Details |
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| Robert Angleton | 13831-179 | As of 2010 in TI[1] | Bookie who took bets on sporting events. He was charged with murdering his wife in a state court, but found not guilty. He was found guilty of tax evasion and passport fraud. |
| Eddie Bunker | Was often visited at TI by Dustin Hoffman to secure the rights to Bunker's prison novel "No Beast So Fierce" which became Hoffman's moderately successful film "Straight Time". | Future actor (Reservoir Dogs) and screenwriter. | |
| Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno | Served his sentence at TI. Upon his release, his younger brother, Joe Jr. (both sons of notorious Mafia chief "Joey Bananas") was transferred there to complete his Federal time 1972-1975. | Subject of Gay Talese's Mafia best-seller "Honor Thy Father" as well as the model for Michael Corleone in Mario Puzo's "The Godfather". | |
| Al Capone | After finishing his Federal felony sentence at Alcatraz, he was transferred to FCI Terminal Island in 1939 to serve a one-year misdemeanor sentence.[citation needed] | Famed mobster | |
| The Port Chicago 50 | Served from November 1944 to January 1946. | 50 African-American sailors convicted of mutiny | |
| Charles Manson | From early 1956 until late 1958 was imprisoned for stealing a '51 Mercury. Charles Manson was later convicted of trying to cash a government check and was first sentenced to McNeil Island in Washington state in 1961, but ended up back at Terminal Island in 1966. When he was released in 1967 he told the releasing officer that he did not want to leave.[citation needed] Currently serving a life sentence at Corcoran State Prison. | Head of Manson Family and mastermind of Tate and LaBianca murders. | |
| Lynette Fromme | Released on Parole from federal medical center Carswell on September 14, 2009. Now living in Marcy, New York. | Former Manson Family member | |
| Timothy Leary | Incarcerated there in 1974. By coincidence, it was at the same time as his arch legal nemesis, G. Gordon Liddy, former FBI agent and Richard Nixon's head man in the Watergate scandal. | famed Harvard professor/LSD guru | |
| Jeffrey MacDonald | Was held twice at Terminal Island. First in 1979 right after he was convicted of murder, and then again in 1982 after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the dismissal of his conviction. Currently serving his sentence at the federal prison in Cumberland, Maryland. | ||
| Anthony Parnes | Was held here by the FBI in 1989 for six months on the order of the British Government relating to his involvement in The Guinness Affair. | ||
| John DeLorean | Released March 29, 1982 - Died March 19, 2005 | Automobile industry executive and alleged drug trafficker. | |
| Edward Morrissey | Was released from FCI Terminal Island in late 2006. Edward Morrissey was serving time for money laundering and using church funds for personal expenses.[citation needed] | Husband of Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey (founder of Living Enrichment Center). | |
| Brian O'Dea | [citation needed] | A noted Canadian drug smuggler, and author of the book 'High: Confessions of a Pot Smuggler'. | |
| Henry Hill | [citation needed] | The protagonist of the movie Goodfellas[2]. | |
| Liz Renay | [citation needed] | Author and actress of John Waters' Desperate Living. | |
| Barry Minkow | Released from prison in 1995 and now living in San Diego. | Infamous stock manipulator and fraudster CEO of ZZZZ Best. | |
| Brent R. Wilkes | Released on bail pending appeal on January 6, 2009 as Ordered by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on March 27, 2008. | Defense Contractor and major figure in the Duke Cunningham bribery scandal. | |
| Anita O'Day | Famous jazz singer |
[edit] References
- ^ "Locate a Federal Inmate: Robert Nicholas Angleton". Federal Bureau of Prisons. 2010. http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Robert&Middle=&LastName=Angleton&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=64&y=11. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- ^ The Real Goodfella, Channel 4, April 25, 2006
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Coordinates: 33°43′40″N 118°16′03″W / 33.7279°N 118.2675°W
