The Federal Correctional Institution Danbury is a federal

Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is a federal law enforcement agency subdivision of the United States Department of Justice and is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system. The system also handles prisoners who committed acts considered felonies under the District of Columbia's...

 prison

Prison

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 (now for women, formerly for men) in Danbury

Danbury, Connecticut

Danbury is a city in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It had population at the 2010 census of 80,893. Danbury is the fourth largest city in Fairfield County and is the seventh largest city in Connecticut....

, Connecticut

Connecticut

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, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of downtown Danbury and 70 miles (112.7 km) from New York City

New York City

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. This prison was known popularly as a "country club" prison, especially among mobsters who were sent here.

Danbury houses low security female offenders and also has an adjacent satellite camp which houses minimum security female offenders.

Notable inmates

Name	Number	Status	Details
Leona Helmsley Leona Helmsley Leona Mindy Roberts Helmsley was an American businesswoman and real estate entrepreneur. She was a flamboyant personality and had a reputation for tyrannical behavior that earned her the nickname Queen of Mean...	15113-054	Released on Jan. 26, 1994	New York's City's so called "Queen of Mean"
Ring Lardner, Jr.		Held for 10 months in 1950-1951, for contempt of Congress (one of the Hollywood 10)	Writer
Robert Lowell Robert Lowell Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress where he served from 1947 until 1948...		several months for refusing to serve in World War II World War II World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...	Poet
Sun Myung Moon Sun Myung Moon Sun Myung Moon is the Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church. He is also the founder of many other organizations and projects...		13 months for filing false tax records and conspiracy	leader of the Unification Church Unification Church The Unification Church is a new religious movement founded by Korean religious leader Sun Myung Moon. In 1954, the Unification Church was formally and legally established in Seoul, South Korea, as The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity . In 1994, Moon gave the church... ,
George Jung George Jung George Jacob Jung , nicknamed "Boston George", was a major player in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s. Jung was a part of the Medellín Cartel which was responsible for up to 85 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States . He specialized in the...			famous cocaine sumggler in the '70s. He is portrayed by Johnny Depp Johnny Depp John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is an American actor, producer and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actor. Depp rose to prominence on the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, becoming a teen idol...  in the 2001 film Blow Blow (film) Blow is a 2001 biopic about the American cocaine smuggler George Jung, directed by Ted Demme. David McKenna and Nick Cassavetes adapted Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellín Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All for the screenplay. It is based on the real... which depicts his life story.
James Peck James Peck (pacifist) James Peck was an American activist who practiced nonviolent resistance during World War II and in the Civil Rights movement...		Held in Danbury.	World War II conscientious objector and civil rights activist
Piper Kerman Piper Kerman Piper Kerman is an American memoirist.-Life:She graduated from Smith College, in 1992.In 1993, she became entangled with Nora, a lesbian who dealt heroin for a West African kingpin...		Author of Orange is the New Black, which chronicles her time spent in prison.

In the Media

• In Season 7 Episode 1 of Weeds
  Weeds (TV series)
  Weeds is an American television comedy created by Jenji Kohan and produced by Tilted Productions in association with Lionsgate Television. The central character is Nancy Botwin , a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling marijuana to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a...
  
  , the lead character Nancy Botwin is released from this prison after serving three years for manslaughter.
• In the Season 7 episode of CSI: NY
  CSI: NY
  CSI: NY is an American police procedural television series that premiered on September 22, 2004, on CBS. The show follows the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths as well as other crimes...
  
  "Identity Crisis", it is revealed that the biological mother of Ellie, Jo's adopted daughter, is serving a long sentence at FCI Danbury.

External links

• Federal Correctional Institution Danbury