Talk:Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury

Wikiproject Prisons
If anyone is interested, I have proposed a new Wikiproject concerning prisons here.--Cdogsimmons (talk) 00:14, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Deleting Lisa Biron
Major media outlets have declined to identify Ms. Biron because it could lead to the victim, her daughter, being identified. I would therefore like to delete her from this article. MDEVER802 (talk) 23:14, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

List from Danbury article moved here
I'm moving this list from the Danbury, Connecticut article to see if some of this information, with proper sources, can be incorporated here. Many of these are already in this article, but some may not be, and this may help expand this article as needed.

Notable former inmates
Notable former inmates include:
 * Rev. Daniel Berrigan, anti-Vietnam War activist
 * James Michael Curley, mayor of Boston from 1945–1949, who spent five months of his mayoral term at Danbury Federal Prison, after he was convicted on federal charges of official misconduct
 * Teresa Giudice, cast member of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice 5, and author of three cookbooks that made the New York Times Best Seller list
 * Leona Helmsley, hotel magnate
 * George Jung, cocaine dealer and trafficker of Blow (2001) fame and professional pilots.
 * Piper Kerman, whose memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010) highlights her experiences in the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution circa 2004
 * G. Gordon Liddy, the Watergate conspirator
 * Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church
 * Joseph Santopietro, former mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut

Notable inmates information from Danbury, Connecticut article
This info was in the Danbury, Connecticut article and was recently removed in a scrapyard sort of mass deletion but i post it here so it can be salavged if desired. SageRad (talk) 12:34, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Notable former inmates
Media personality and homemaker Martha Stewart (incarcerated at the Federal Prison Camp, Alderson in West Virginia) and female rap star Lil' Kim (incarcerated at the Federal Detention Center, Philadelphia in Pennsylvania) requested that their prison terms be served at Danbury Federal Correctional Institution due to its proximity to their homes, but due to the media attention their requests were denied.


 * Rev. Daniel Berrigan, anti-Vietnam War activist
 * James Michael Curley, mayor of Boston from 1945–1949, who spent five months of his mayoral term at Danbury Federal Prison, after he was convicted on federal charges of official misconduct
 * Teresa Giudice, cast member of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice 5, and author of three cookbooks that made the New York Times Best Seller list
 * Leona Helmsley, hotel magnate
 * George Jung, cocaine dealer and trafficker of Blow (2001) fame and professional pilots.
 * Piper Kerman, whose memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010) highlights her experiences in the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution circa 2004
 * G. Gordon Liddy, the Watergate conspirator
 * Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church
 * Joseph Santopietro, former mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut

Disputed Hartford Courant article
There was a 2004 Hartford Courant article in which "Barbara", a former prisoner, talks about the prison
 * Tuohy, Lynne. "Don't Worry, Martha, It's Like A Big Hotel." Hartford Courant. September 19, 2004.

However in Orange is the New Black the book Piper Kerman said the Tuohy article had inaccuracies. I'm going to cite the ebook, eISBN 978-0-385-53026-2
 * location 1415: "Levy" is a French-Moroccan Jewish woman at FCI Danbury
 * location 3123: Kerman and the other prisoners learned about the article and realized "Barbara" was "Levy"
 * location 3130: Kerman said Levy made the prison look better than it actually was
 * location 3137: Kerman said that Tuohy included some minor inaccuracies; she said that the CD player claim, the number of nuns, and the Haagen Dasz claims were not true, and that the inmates were very upset at the Haagen Dasz claim. She also said the women were very angry at Levy/Barbara.

Since Kerman used false names for almost everyone in her memoir I will assume that Levy is also a false name WhisperToMe (talk) 12:00, 9 April 2016 (UTC)