Federal Prison Camp, Eglin


Federal Prison Camp, Eglin was a Federal Bureau of Prisons minimum security prison at Auxiliary Field 6, Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Lacey Rose of Forbes wrote that it "was once considered so cushy that the term "Club Fed" was actually coined to describe it."
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.
NameNumberStatusDetails
Jack P.F. GremillionN/AConfined 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 Mezvinsky55040-066Releasedformer member of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa
Louis WolfsonN/AHeld at FCI, Eglinformer Wall Street financier
Steve Madden49498-054Held at Eglinformer head of Steve Madden, LTD
Robert Mason 81349-071Imprisoned at Eglin in the early 1980s for drug trafficking. Wrote about these in the book Chickenhawk: Back in the WorldWriter of Chickenhawk
Marvin Mandel12100-037Releasedformer governor of Maryland
James A. Kelly Jr.14231-038ReleasedFormer Massachusetts State Senator. Convicted of extortion.