Talk:Federal Correctional Institution, Atlanta

Bernard Madoff is an inmate here?

According to the Wikipedia article on Madoff he's in the Federal Correctional Institution Butner Medium near Butner, North Carolina. There's no mention of his being in Atlanta. I live close to this prison, and I would have thought I would have heard about it if Madoff got sent here.

I am questioning the accuracy of this entire list, especially since there's no sources cited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.176.158.231 (talk) 21:49, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

I totally agree. Where did this information come from? I'd like to clean up this list. MDEVER802 (talk) 23:56, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Barry Mills removal

An unregistered editor added Barry Mills (Aryan Brotherhood) at the top of the list of notable inmates. I deleted this because it was not added with any references or in proper form. Please use the table format that has already been established with adding inmates and include references. A Softer Answer (talk) 16:00, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

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Who is Sylvester Cuevas and why does he merit mention in this article?

I saw that Sylvester Cuevas is mentioned in the "Others" section of names of notable inmates. He was apparently convicted of "mailing threatening communications" and has an extended sentence because he punched several corrections officers at a prison in West Virginia. I can't find any reference to him on the internet other than a few references to the incidents in the West Virginia prison...no news articles, nothing to indicate that he is any more noteworthy than any of the other 1900 or so prisoners in this prison...so why the specific mention of him in the article?

I am going to leave this up for awhile, and if anyone has any comments or information as to why he should be mentioned, please leave a comment on this talk page. If I don't get any response after a few weeks, or if whatever responses I get claiming he is noteworthy aren't backed up by verifiable information, I am going to delete the text that mentions him. Ormewood (talk) 15:59, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

I deleted the text mentioning Sylvester Cuevas. Ormewood (talk) 20:10, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Sylvester Cuevas is notable both because he was charged with assault of an individual assisting the U.S. Marshall- which is a law that is rarely used in common practice and parlance, and because of his appeal in the fourth circuit, No. 12-4133, which resulted in an unpublished per curiam [opinion] dealing with pro se litigation and the particular standard of waiver of the right to counsel in the context of criminal law, which is somewhat unusual in that it is not typically used as grounds for appeal within the particular procedural context. 98.178.191.34 (talk) 21:13, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Is Kenneth McGriff an inmate in this prison? Has he ever been in this facility?

His Wikipedia article makes no mention of his being incarcerated at the federal prison in Atlanta. It claims that he is in USP Lee in Virginia. If you search his BOP register number on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, however, it lists his current location as USP Big Sandy in Kentucky.

I couldn't find any source that claimed that he was at one time or is now in the Atlanta prison.Ormewood (talk) 17:26, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

I deleted the mention of Kenneth McGriff.Ormewood (talk) 15:28, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

The problem is that you really can't use the FBOP website as a source for an inmate's previous location. For security and privacy reasons, FBOP only lists an individual's current location in the system and does not list any of their previous locations within the system. FBOP also effectively blocks spiders/crawlers from their website to prevent any archival of the information for security reasons per FBOP official policy and procedure, because the information is considered a potential threat to the security of the institution. Therefore, the FBOP website probably shouldn't be used as a source, to begin with, in favor of using sources that can be archived and remain stable over time. 98.178.191.34 (talk) 21:21, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

USP Atlanta has been redesignated to an FCI (Federal Correctional Insitution)

According to the BOP website, this prison is now properly referred to as an FCI. References to it in this article (including the title of the page), should be made to match this.

https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/atl/ 32.221.90.72 (talk) 15:24, 1 September 2024 (UTC)