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Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville

Low-security prison in Texas, US

Summary

Low-security prison in Texas, US

FieldValue
prison_nameFederal Correctional Institution, Seagoville
image[[File:SeaggovilleFCIlarge.jpg275px]]
locationSeagoville, Texas
statusOperational
classificationLow-security (with minimum-security prison camp)
population1,800 (170 in prison camp)
managed_byFederal Bureau of Prisons
wardenKristi Ciolli

The Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville (FCI Seagoville) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Seagoville, Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility includes a detention center for male offenders and an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum security-male offenders.

FCI Seagoville is located 11 mi southeast of Downtown Dallas.

History

The Federal Reformatory for Women in Seagoville opened on October 10, 1940. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the government converted the center into a Federal Detention Station, monitored by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, that housed people of Japanese, German, and Italian descent who were classified as "enemy aliens," including women deported from Latin America into U.S. custody. Many of the Latin American internees had been classified officially as "voluntary internees" because they had chosen to leave their home countries after their husbands had been deported to the U.S., however, their choice was in many cases motivated by the difficulties of supporting themselves and their families alone. Internees at Seagoville published a German language newsletter called the Sägedorfer Fliegende Blätter.{{Cite web | access-date = 2014-02-06 | access-date = 2014-02-06 | chapter-url = http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/quwby

After World War II ended, on June 25, 1945 the prison became a facility for minimum security male offenders. In 1969, the facility's mission changed to that of housing young male offenders sentenced under the Youth Corrections Act. At the time the maximum age of the prisoners was 27.

In 1979, the facility's mission changed into that of a Federal Prison Camp. In 1981, a perimeter fence was installed and the facility became a Federal Correctional Institution. The adjacent Federal Detention Center opened in 1996. FDC Seagoville celebrated its 60th anniversary on October 10, 2000.

Facility

The prison facility is located on an 830 acre tract. Built for $1.8 million, it occupies a portion of the acreage. In World War II single detainees occupied dormitories while couples resided in "Victory Huts", prefabricated one room buildings with measurements of 18 sqft each.

Notable incidents

On November 8, 2012, 27-year-old John Hall, an inmate at FCI Seagoville, pleaded guilty to violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act for assaulting a fellow inmate whom he believed to be gay. Hall admitted that on December 20, 2011, he repeatedly punched and kicked the victim, whom the Department of Justice did not identify, while calling the victim homosexual slurs. The victim sustained multiple lacerations to his face and fractured teeth as a result of Hall's unprovoked attack. On March 14, 2013, Hall was sentenced to an additional 71 months in prison for the attack, which is to be served consecutively.

Notable inmates (current and former)

InmateRegister NumberStatusDetails
Josh Duggar42501-509Sentenced to 12.7 years; scheduled release on 12/23/2032.Former lobbyist and reality television personality from the TLC series 19 Kids and Counting. He was found guilty of receiving and possessing child pornography, and sentenced for receipt of said materials.
Chris Epps10095-042Sentenced to 19.6 years; scheduled release in 2032.Former Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, convicted of taking $1.4 million in bribes from contractors related to Operation Mississippi Hustle
Richard Clark10095-042Sentenced to 151 months; released in 2021Father of St. Vincent who was convicted in 2010 of conspiracy and money laundering.
Ruben Verastigui29014-509Sentenced to 12.5 years; scheduled release in 2031.Ex-aide of the GOP who was an anti-abortion activist. Charged with possessing child pornography.
Douglas Perlitz36435-013Sentenced to 19.6 years; scheduled release in 2025.Former director of the Project Pierre Toussaint School in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. Perlitz confessed to sexually abusing eight homeless children at the center after showing them pornography, bribing them with food, money, clothing and electronics, and threatening to expel them if they told anyone. He is suspected of abusing dozens more young boys.
Jacques Roy44132-177Now at FMC Fort Worth; scheduled release in 2040.Physician; indicted in 2012 for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud for allegedly masterminding the largest healthcare fraud in US history, which involved 11,000 patients and resulted in $375 million being fraudulently billed to Medicare and Medicaid.
Ralph Shortey31860-064Sentenced to 15 years; scheduled release in 2030.Former Republican member of the Oklahoma Senate. Indicted in 2017 for child sex trafficking, to which he pled guilty and has been jailed since November 30, 2017.
Fernando Rivas23452-171Sentenced to 15 years; scheduled release in 2026.Composer for several TV Shows such as Sesame Street, Handy Manny. Won two Emmy awards for his music department's work on Sesame Street. Indicted in 2011, Rivas was sentenced to 15 years in prison for creating and sending child pornography.
Mufid Abdulqader32590-177Scheduled release in 2025.Former Chief Fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation, once the largest Islamic charity in the US; convicted in 2008 of providing material support for terrorism for funneling money to the terrorist organization Hamas. Four co-conspirators were also sentenced to prison.
Muhammed Nasiru Usman38671-177Sentenced to 15 years, served 10, and released on March 16, 2021.Father of former UFC champion Kamaru Usman. Convicted of running a healthcare fraud scheme under an ambulance company which defrauded the government of more than $3.5 million dollars. Was ordered to pay $1.3 million dollars in restitution.
Yahya al-Bahrumi35026-177Sentenced to 34 months of imprisonment, released on October 1, 2008.Future jihadist and Islamic scholar; in April 2006 arrested for attempting to hijack the website of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

COVID-19 outbreak

On August 8, 2020, CNN reported that 1,300 of the 1,750 prisoners (75% of the inmates) had tested positive for COVID-19. Twenty-eight of the 300 staff members had tested positive as well. , three inmates have died. "It came through here so fast that it's out of control," said inmate Bobby Williams, who contracted the virus in June. "We're packed like sardines."

References

References

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  2. {{Handbook of Texas
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  8. (2022-05-25). "Joshua Duggar sentenced to 12 years in federal prison on child pornography charges".
  9. (2022-06-28). "Josh Duggar begins serving federal prison sentence at Seagoville".
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  18. (22 December 2010). "Douglas Perlitz Sentenced for Haitian Sex Abuse". CBS News.
  19. (February 28, 2012). "Dallas Doctor Arrested For Alleged Role In Nearly $375 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme". US Department of Justice.
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  21. (January 31, 2019). "Former state senator ordered to pay over $125,000 in restitution to child sex trafficking victim". [[KFOR-TV]].
  22. (2009-05-27). "Federal Judge Hands Downs Sentences in Holy Land Foundation Case | OPA | Department of Justice". Justice.gov.
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  24. (2020-07-11). "Fight Island -- The inside story of Kamaru Usman, his father and a Texas prison".
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  28. (August 8, 2020). "This Texas federal prison has been the hardest-hit by Covid-19".
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