{{Short description|Medium-security prison in West Virginia, US}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox Prison | prison_name = Federal Correctional Institution, Hazelton | image = | pushpin_map = West Virginia#USA | pushpin_relief = | pushpin_mapsize = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = Federal Correctional Institution, Hazelton (West Virginia) | pushpin_label = | map_dot_mark = | coordinates = {{Coord|39.673896|-79.498826|display=inline, title}} | location = Preston County, West Virginia | status = Operational | classification = Medium-security with Secure Female Facility | population = 2,015 (April 2024)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/haf/ | title=FCI Hazelton }}</ref> | opened = 2015 | managed_by = Federal Bureau of Prisons | warden = Frederick Entzel Jr<ref>{{cite web|title=FCI Hazelton Becomes 120th Bureau of Prisons Facility|url=http://www.bop.gov/resources/news/20140618_hazelton.jsp|website=Federal Bureau of Prisons|publisher=US Department of Justice|access-date=15 August 2015|date=June 18, 2014}}</ref> }} The '''Federal Correctional Institution, Hazelton (FCI Hazelton)''' is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates, as well as a secure facility for female inmates, located in unincorporated Preston County, West Virginia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st54_wv/county/c54077_preston/DC20BLK_C54077.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Preston County, WV|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=2022-08-15|page=2 (PDF p. 3/20)|quote=United States Penitentiary Hazelton}}</ref> It is the newest facility in the federal prison system and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. ''The New York Times'' notes that its nickname is "Misery Mountain".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/whitey-bulger-murder.html|title=After Whitey Bulger Killing, Warden of 'Misery Mountain' Faces Removal|newspaper=The New York Times|date=30 November 2018|last1=Ivory|first1=Danielle}}</ref>

The Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) Hazelton has two prisons, physically adjacent but distinct: FCI Hazelton and the high-security United States Penitentiary, Hazelton constructed in 2004. Both are operated by the FBOP.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Matt |title=Workers Raise Prison Safety Awareness |url=https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/workers-raise-prison-safety-awareness/article_803bea2b-af17-5926-a6ad-206d04e30c1c.html |access-date=31 October 2018 |publisher=Charleston Gazette-Mail |date=30 October 2014}}</ref>

==Facility details== FCI Hazelton has a Special Housing Unit where inmates are generally allowed out of their cells only for an hour recreation each weekday as well as for medical appointments. Inmates may be sent to the SHU pending investigations, as punishment for rule violations, for protection from other inmates, or for other administrative reasons.

The facility has a Vocational Training Program, which includes building trades such as Carpentry, Dry Wall, Electrical, HVAC, Masonry, Plumbing, and Welding, Culinary Arts, Graphic Arts, and Microsoft Office.<ref>{{cite web|title=INMATE ADMISSION & ORIENTATION HANDBOOK|url=http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/haf/HAF_aohandbook.pdf|website=Federal Bureau of Prisons|publisher=US Department of Justice|date=May 12, 2014|access-date=August 15, 2015|archive-date=August 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807062527/http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/haf/HAF_aohandbook.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Notable inmates== {|class="wikitable sortable" |- !width=14%|Inmate Name !width=10%|Register Number !width=23%|Status !width=53%|Details |- | align="center" | Michael Nunn | align="center" | 11772-030 | Released from custody on August 22, 2019. | Former world middleweight boxing champion; pleaded guilty in 2003 to conspiracy to distribute cocaine for buying $24,000 worth of cocaine from an undercover FBI Agent in 2002.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ex-middleweight champ Nunn sentenced to 24 years in jail|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2004-01-30-nunn_x.htm|newspaper=USA Today|date=January 30, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Keeler|first=Sean|title=Rise and fall of boxing champion Michael Nunn|url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20080706/SPORTS14/807060338/Rise-fall-boxing-champion-Michael-Nunn?nclick_check=1|newspaper=Des Moines Register|date=July 6, 2008|archive-date=November 8, 2013|access-date=August 15, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131108132357/http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20080706/SPORTS14/807060338/Rise-fall-boxing-champion-Michael-Nunn?nclick_check=1|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Dvorak|first=Todd|title=Ex-Boxing Champ Michael Nunn Sentenced|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64454-2004Jan30.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 30, 2004}}</ref> |- | align="center" | Joaquin Valencia-Trujillo | align="center" | 02440-748 | Scheduled for release in 2036; currently at FCI Oakdale. | Former leader of the Cali Cartel in Colombia; extradited to the US in 2004; convicted in 2006 of drug trafficking conspiracy for directing the shipment of more than 100 tons of cocaine a year into the US over a ten-year period.<ref>{{cite news|last=Weimar|first=Carrie|title=Cartel leader gets 40 years|url=http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/02/Hillsborough/Cartel_leader_gets_40.shtml|access-date=27 October 2013|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times|date=February 2, 2007}}</ref> |- |style="text-align:center;"| James Alex Fields Jr. |style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ 22239-084] |Serving a life sentence. Transferred to USP Allenwood. |White supremacist, pleaded guilty in 2019 of 29 federal hate crime charges using his car to harm counter-protestors during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing 32 year-old Heather Heyer and injuring up to 19 more. |- | align="center" | Heather Mack | align="center" | 72776-509 | Serving a 26-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2044. | Convicted of being involved with the murder of her mother Sheila von Wiese, during a vacation in Indonesia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suitcase-killer-heather-mack-sentenced-rcna134356|title=Heather Mack, who helped kill and stuff her mother in a suitcase in Bali, is sentenced to 26 years|website=NBC News|date=January 17, 2024|access-date=September 19, 2024}}</ref> |- |- | align="center" | Stella Nickell | align="center" | 17371-086 | Serving a 90-year sentence; transferred from FCI Dublin. | Convicted of product tampering after she poisoned Excedrin capsules with lethal cyanide.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/stella-nickell-serving-90-years-for-planting-poisoned-pills-denied-prison-release/|title=Stella Nickell, serving 90 years for planting poisoned pills, denied prison release|newspaper=Seattle Times|date=October 12, 2023}}</ref> |- | align="center" | Stewart Parnell | align="center" | [http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ 96284-020] | Serving a 28-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2038. | Former chief executive officer of the Peanut Corporation of America. Convicted of his role in a salmonella outbreak which killed at least 9 people and sickened at least 714 more.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2016/02/123674/|title = Parnell brothers finally in prison for deadly peanut butter outbreak|date = 17 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cafpna.org/www/aggregator/sources/1|title=Food Safety News &#124; Chinese Association for Food Protection in North America北美华人食品保护协会}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lamitech.com/news-feed/food-safety-news/|title=News Feed|date=20 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2020/02/ill-fated-quality-control-officer-for-peanut-corp-of-america-freed-from-federal-custody/|title = Ill-fated quality control officer for Peanut Corp of America freed from federal custody|date = 9 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/index.jsp|title=Inmate Locator}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2020/04/ex-pca-manager-daniel-kilgore-leaves-federal-prison-in-crisis-for-half-way-house/|title=Ex-PCA manager Daniel Kilgore leaves federal prison in crisis for half-way house|date=13 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2021/04/vaccines-but-no-compassionate-release-for-parnell-brothers-prior-to-may-hearings/|title=Vaccines but no 'compassionate release' for Parnell brothers prior to May hearings|date=12 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsmag365.com/parnell-brothers-are-also-asking-for-compassionate-release/|title = Parnell brothers are also asking for 'compassionate release'|date = 3 March 2021}}</ref> |- | align="center" | Nancy Salzman | align="center" | [https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ 25533-052] | Released in March 2024. | Co-founder and "Prefect" of NXIVM, an Albany, New York-based multi-level marketing firm and cult that also engaged in sex trafficking; has been described as enabling fellow co-founder Keith Raniere, who was sentenced to 120 years after his conviction at trial. Pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy in September 2021.<ref>{{cite news | last = Moynihan | first = Colin | title = Sex Cult Leader's Top Deputy Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison | work = The New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/nyregion/nancy-salzman-nxivm-sentencing.html | date = September 8, 2021 | quote = Mr. Raniere was convicted on several charges and sentenced to 120 years in prison; Ms. Salzman pleaded guilty to a single count of racketeering conspiracy, and former Nxivm members have described her as an enabler who made Mr. Raniere's abuse possible. | archive-url = https://archive.today/20210908192832/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/nyregion/nancy-salzman-nxivm-sentencing.html | archive-date = September 8, 2021 | url-status = live|access-date=October 25, 2022 }}</ref> |- | align="center" | Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem | align="center" | 44126-408 |Serving a 30-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2041. |Conspirator in the Curtis Culwell Center attack. Knowingly provided the shooters with firearms and ammunition.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-02-08 |title=Man sentenced to 30 years in attack on anti-Islam cartoon contest |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/phoenix-man-sentenced-30-years-texas-cartoon-contest-attack-n718621 |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref> |- | align="center" | Rachel Powell | align="center" | 28873-509 |Serving a 57-month sentence; scheduled for release in January 2028 (pardoned 2024) |Rioter who participated in the January 6 United States Capitol attack. |- | align="center" | Christian Lee Dedmon | align="center" | 71503-510 |Serving a 40 year sentence; scheduled for release in 2057 |Rankin County Mississippi Sheriffs Deputy involved in the Rankin County Goon Squad. Held in FCI Hazelton for two months before relocating to FCI Fairton. |- | align="center" | Natalie Cochran | align="center" | 15406-088 |Serving a 135 month sentence; scheduled for release in 2029. Also serving a Life sentence. |Former pharmacist from West Virginia. Plead guilty to wire fraud and money laundering on September 21, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Raleigh County Pharmacist Sentenced to More Than 11 Years in Prison for Fraud Scheme |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdwv/pr/raleigh-county-pharmacist-sentenced-more-11-years-prison-fraud-scheme |publisher=United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of West Virginia - via United States Department of Justice (www.justice.gov) |access-date=2 July 2025}}</ref> Also found guilty of murdering her husband and given a life sentence.<ref name="Castillo">{{cite web |last1=Castillo |first1=Robert |title=Natalie Cochran sentenced to life in prison without parole |url=https://www.wvva.com/2025/01/30/mercy-phase-begins-natalie-cochran-trial/ |website=WVVA |date=30 January 2025 |access-date=13 March 2025}}</ref> |- | align="center" |Riley Williams | align="center" |26023-509 |Served a 36 month sentence, released in 2024 |Participant in the January 6 United States Capitol attack who stole the laptop of Nancy Pelosi.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jan. 6 rioter from Mechanicsburg was ‘coerced’ into computer monitoring: lawyer |url=https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2024/05/jan-6-rioter-from-mechanicsburg-was-coerced-into-computer-monitoring-lawyer.html}}</ref> |}

== See also == *List of United States federal prisons *Federal Bureau of Prisons *Incarceration in the United States {{Portal bar|United States|Politics}} {{Clear}}

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==External links== * [https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/gil/ official web site] *"[http://www.moseleyarchitects.com/correctiondetention-projects/federal-detenion/hazelton-federal-correctional-institution/ Hazelton Federal Correctional Institution]." Moseley Architects.

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