Federal Prison Camp, Eglin was a Federal Bureau of Prisons minimum security prison at Auxiliary Field 6, Eglin Air Force Base in Florida."BOP/NIC Directory." Federal Bureau of Prisons. February 2, 2004. Retrieved on August 23, 2010.
Lacey Rose of Forbes wrote that it "was once considered so cushy that the term "Club Fed" was actually coined to describe it.""The Best Places to Go to Prison" (Archive). Forbes. April 17, 2006. Retrieved on December 30, 2015.
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.
Notable inmates
The five Watergate burglars - Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martínez, James W. McCord Jr., and Frank Sturgis - were inmates at Eglin.
Inmate NameRegister NumberPhotoStatusDetailsJack P.F. GremillionN/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.Attorney General of Louisiana from 1956 to 1972 Edward Mezvinsky55040-066 ReleasedFormer member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa Louis WolfsonN/A Held at FCI, Eglin"Financier Wolfson Scheduled To Leave Eglin Prison Today." Associated Press at The Herald Tribune. Monday January 26, 1970. 45th year, No. 115. 1A. Retrieved from Google News (1/38) on August 23, 2010.Former Wall Street financier Steve Madden49498-054 Held at EglinFormer head of Steve Madden, LTDRobert C. Mason81349-071 Imprisoned at Eglin in the early 1980s for drug trafficking. Wrote about these in the book Chickenhawk: Back in the WorldWriter of Chickenhawk Marvin Mandel12100-037 ReleasedFormer governor of MarylandJames A. Kelly Jr.14231-038 ReleasedFormer Massachusetts State Senator. Convicted of extortion. Paul Bilzerian (born 1950), financier convicted of securities fraud
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References
External links - Federal Bureau of Prisons