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.^[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]

Notable inmates

The five Watergate burglars - Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martínez, James W. McCord Jr., and Frank Sturgis - were inmates at Eglin.^[4]

Inmate Name	Register Number	Photo	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 C. Mason	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]

• Paul Bilzerian (born 1950), financier convicted of securities fraud

See also