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| Location | Lompoc,Santa Barbara County, California |
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| Coordinates | 34°40′42″N120°29′50″W / 34.678364°N 120.497158°W /34.678364; -120.497158 |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Low-security |
| Population | 851 (September 2024) |
| Managed by | Federal Bureau of Prisons |
TheFederal Correctional Institution, Lompoc I is a low-security United Statesfederal prison for male inmates inLompoc, California. It is part of the Lompoc Federal Correctional Complex (FCC Lompoc) and is operated by theFederal Bureau of Prisons, a division of theUnited States Department of Justice. The complex also includesFederal Correctional Institution, Lompoc II and a minimum-security prison camp.
The average offender at FCI Lompoc is serving between one and fifteen years for federal drug and or other non-violent offenses. It has four general housing units, two of which offer dormitory and room-type housing. The institution offers a full range of inmate employment, vocational training, education, counseling (both mental health and drug abuse), medical, dental, pre-release preparation, and other self-improvement opportunities.[1]
Hours of operation are 6am to 8pm, excluding counts and meals.
In the late evening hours of January 21, 1980,Christopher Boyce, who was serving a forty-year sentence for spying for theSoviet Union, escaped from FCI Lompoc.[3] With the assistance of fellow inmates, he hid in a drainage hole, used a makeshift ladder and small tin scissors to cut through a barbed wire perimeter. Boyce was on the run for nineteen months, untilU.S. Marshals andFBI Agents captured him on theOlympic Peninsula ofwesternWashington atPort Angeles on August 21, 1981,[4][5] ending one of the most extensive and complex manhunts in the history of the U.S. Marshals Service.[6]
A deadlyCOVID-19 outbreak swept through the federal correctional complex in 2020.[7] It included several dozen staff members, including guards.[8]
| Inmate Name | Register Number | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Faulkner | 76501-112 | Sentenced to FCI for fraud and tax evasion; scheduled for release in 2030 and is not eligible for parole. Currently atFCI El Reno. | Texas oil-and-gas mogul who was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for bilking investors out of millions of dollars and concealing money from the IRS.[9] |
| Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif | 40739-086[permanent dead link] | Serving a 18 year sentence; scheduled for release in 2026. Currently atFCI Sheridan. | Pleaded guilty in 2012 toconspiracy to murder US officers for plotting to attack recruits at a Military Processing Center in Seattle, Washington with grenades and machine guns; co-conspirator Walli Mujahidh received 17 years.[10] |
| Henry Uliomereyon Jones | 46810-112[permanent dead link] | Scheduled for release in October 2023; now atFCI La Tuna. | Former record company executive; convicted in 2008 ofmail fraud,wire fraud, andsecurities fraud for running aPonzi scheme that caused 500 investors to lose over $32 million; the story was featured on theCNBC seriesAmerican Greed.[11][12][13][14] |
| Changpeng Zhao | 88087-510[dead link] | Reported to Lompoc II in May 2024 to serve a four month sentence. Release Date: 09/29/2024 | Co-founder and former CEO ofBinance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume as of November 2023. He resigned as the CEO in November 2023 after pleading guilty to amoney laundering charge in the United States and was sentenced to four months in prison in April 2024.[citation needed] |
†Inmates who were released from custody prior to 1982 are not listed on the Bureau of Prisons website.
| Inmate Name | Register Number | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Snowden | Unlisted† | Transferred fromFederal Correctional Institution, Texarkana in December 1971[15] and released in August 1972.[16] | Member of theWhite Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who became a conspirator and participant in themurders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964. |
| Christopher John Boyce | 19347-148[permanent dead link] | Released from custody in 2003 after serving 24 years. | Boyce & Lee were convicted ofespionage in 1977 for selling classified information regarding USciphers and spy satellites to the Soviet Union; they were respectively portrayed byTimothy Hutton andSean Penn in the 1985 filmThe Falcon and the Snowman.[17] |
| Andrew Daulton Lee | 19485-148[permanent dead link] | Released in 1998 after serving 19 years. | |
| Bernie Ward | 90569-111[permanent dead link] | Released from custody in 2014; served 6 years.[18] | Formerradio host andpolitical commentator; pleaded guilty to distribution ofchild pornography in 2008 for using the Internet to transmit photographs of children being molested.[19][20] |
| Reed Slatkin | 24057-112 | Released from custody in 2013; served 10 years.[21] | Co-founder ofEarthLink and ordainedScientology minister; pleaded guilty in 2002 to fraud, conspiracy and money laundering for perpetrating one of the largest Ponzi schemes in US history.[22] |
| Chi Mak | 29252-112 | Was serving a 24-year sentence; released through death on October 31, 2022.[23] | Former engineer for theBoeing aerospace company; convicted in 2007 ofconspiracy to commiteconomic espionage and other charges for stealing restricted information related to the USSpace Shuttle program andDelta IV rocket for the Chinese government.[24][25] |
| Mossimo Giannulli | 77808-112 | Was serving a five-month sentence; released from custody on April 2, 2021 | American Fashion Designer who pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and one count of honest services wire and mail fraud after being investigated as part of Operation Varsity Blues where it was discovered that Mossimo and his wife,Lori Loughlin, paid $500,000 to help secure their two daughters attendance at University of Southern California.[26] |
