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| Location | Raleigh County, nearBeaver, West Virginia |
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| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Medium-security (with minimum-security prison camp) |
| Population | 1,660 (430 in prison camp) |
| Opened | 1994 |
| Managed by | Federal Bureau of Prisons |
TheFederal Correctional Institution, Beckley (FCI Beckley) is a medium-security United Statesfederal prison for male inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by theFederal Bureau of Prisons, a division of theUnited States Department of Justice. An adjacent satellite camp houses minimum-security inmates.
FCI Beckley is located approximately 51 miles southeast of Charleston, West Virginia and 136 miles northwest of Roanoke, Virginia.[1]
While they occur less frequently than at high-security prisons, serious acts of violence also occur at medium and minimum-security institutions such as FCI Beckley. In April 2010, FCI Beckley inmate Sylvester Cuevas, who was serving a sentence for mailing threatening communications, repeatedly punched a correction officer, causing the officer to sustain a broken nose and facial cuts. Cuevas was charged with felony assault and transferred to the Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh County, West Virginia pending court proceedings. Cuevas assaulted another correction officer at that facility in August 2010, who suffered a broken facial bone. On February 2, 2012, Cuevas pleaded guilty to felony assault in connection with both incidents and was sentenced to an additional eight years in prison.[2] Cuevas was transferred toADX Florence, the federalsupermax prison in Colorado which holds inmates requiring the tightest security controls.[3] He has since been moved toUSP Atlanta.
| Register Number | Photo | Status | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric DeWayne Boyd | 31710-074 | Served an 18-year sentence; released in June 2022. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2019. | Convicted for assisting Lemaricus Davidson, perpetrator of the 2007murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, carjack a vehicle in order to elude authorities.[4] | |
| James Kopp | 11761-055 | Serving a life sentence, currently atFCI Mendota.[5] | Associate of the anti-abortion groupThe Lambs of Christ; convicted in 2007 of the 1998 murder ofDr. Barnett Slepian, who performed abortions at a clinic in Buffalo, New York; Kopp was one of theFBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives prior to his capture in 2001.[6] | |
| Steven Warshak | 04431-061 | Released from custody in 2016; served 9 years.[7] | Founder of Berkeley Nutraceuticals; convicted in 2008 offraud andmoney laundering for bilking customers out of $100 million; the story was featured on theCNBC television programAmerican Greed.[8][9] |
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