{{Short description|Prison operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox prison | prison_name = Federal Detention Center, Miami | image = [[Image:FDC Miami.jpg|275px]] | location = [[Miami, Florida]] | coordinates = {{coord|25.77851|-80.19322|display=inline,title}} | status = Operational | classification = [[Administrative security|Administrative]] | population = 1,380<ref name="BOP-Weekly-Population-Report">{{cite web|title=Weekly Population Report|url=http://www.bop.gov/locations/weekly_report.jsp|publisher=[[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]|access-date=July 18, 2010|date=July 15, 2010}}</ref> | opened = 1995<ref name="MiamiNewTimes-20090319">{{cite news|title=Unequal Justice|author=Francisco Alvarado|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2009-03-19/news/unequal-justice-sexual-abuse-at-miami-s-federal-detention-center/|publisher=[[Miami New Times]]|access-date=July 13, 2010|date=March 19, 2009}}</ref> | closed = | managed_by = [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] | warden = E.K.Carlton<ref name="MiamiHerald-20100612">{{cite news|title=Wrong bra, no bra: Jail bars lawyer|author=Jay Weaver|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/12/1676299_wrong-bra-no-bra-jail-bars-lawyer.html|publisher=[[Miami Herald]]|access-date=July 14, 2010|date=June 12, 2010}}</ref> | website = {{Official website|https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/mim/}} }}
The '''Federal Detention Center, Miami''' ('''FDC Miami''') is a federal prison in the [[Downtown Miami|downtown]] area of [[Miami, Florida]], United States. It is operated by the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]], a division of the [[United States Department of Justice]]. The administrative facility employed 311 staff as of 2002 and housed 1,512 male and female inmates as of July 15, 2010.
==Background== Built in 1995, the detention center was designed for a capacity of 1,259 inmates. The facility primarily houses prisoners of the [[United States Marshals Service|U.S. Marshals Service]], both male and female. Its mission is to provide a safe and humane confinement of inmates and detainees, many of whom are involved in [[United States federal courts|federal court]] proceedings in the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida|Southern District of Florida]].<ref name="FDC-Miami-Manual">{{cite web|author=John T. Rathman|title=FDC Miami Admission and Orientation Manual|url=http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/mim/MIM_aohandbook.pdf|publisher=[[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]|access-date=July 13, 2010|date=September 2009}}</ref>
==Security procedures== Inmates are screened by a unit team member, and assigned quarters based on personal profile and security needs. Each unit team is composed of a unit manager, case manager(s), correctional counselor(s), and at times, an education representative. A federal register number is assigned to each inmate for identification and forwarding of [[letter (message)|correspondence]] while in federal custody.<ref name="FDC-Miami-Manual" />
In June 2010, the facility's security procedures prevented attorney Brittney Horstman from meeting a client when her [[underwire bra]] set off a [[metal detector]]. After returning from a bathroom without the item, she was turned away because of the detention center's [[dress code]]. The federal [[public defender]]'s office contacted Warden Linda McGrew, who conducted an inquiry. McGrew concluded the incident was "an aberration" and promised it would not happen again.<ref name="MiamiHerald-20100612" />
==Sexual victimization== According to a 2005 [[U.S. Department of Justice]] report, an estimated 12 percent of the complaints received by the department's inspector general involved inmates claiming sexual victimization by prison staff. In 2009, [[United States federal judge|federal judge]] [[Cecilia Altonaga]] wrote that although the [[statute of limitations]] had passed to award damages in a civil case, "the BOP and FDC Miami did have notice of the illegal conduct taking place, and were woefully deficient in addressing it."<ref name="MiamiNewTimes-20090319" />
== Location == The prison is located in downtown Miami, at the corner of Northeast Fourth Street and North Miami Avenue. In 2021, a luxury apartment complex called "Downtown 5th" had been built opposite the prison on what was previously a parking lot. It went viral two years later for its rooftop pool area directly across the street from the prison, where sunbathing women in bikinis were shouted at by inmates.<ref>https://communitynewspapers.com/biscayne-bay/melo-group-announces-the-completion-of-downtown-5th-apartment-towers/</ref><ref>https://www.newsweek.com/shock-miami-apartment-building-pool-overlooked-jail-florida-1772201</ref>
==Notable inmates (current and former)== †Inmates in the [[Federal Witness Protection Program]] are not listed on the Bureau of Prisons website. {|class="wikitable sortable" !width=13%|Inmate Name !width=9%|Register Number !width=5%|Photo !width=26%|Status !width=52%|Details |- | align="center" | Esteban Santiago-Ruiz | align="center" | 15500-104 | [[File:Esteban Santiago.png|80px]] | Serving five life sentences plus 120 years. Transferred to [[United States Penitentiary, Tucson|USP Tucson]]. | Perpetrator of the [[Fort Lauderdale airport shooting]]. |- | align="center" | [[JT (rapper)|Jatavia Johnson]] | align="center" | [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=16486-104&x=48&y=22 16486-104]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} | | Sentenced to serve a term of 24 months. Released on October 8, 2019. | Member of rap duo [[City Girls]]; charged with aggravated [[identity theft]]. |- | align="center" | [[Doug Hughes (activist)|Douglas M. Hughes]] | align="center" | 62746-007 | [[File:Doug Hughes 1200738 (49416372368).jpg|80px]] | Received a 4-month sentence. Released from a halfway house on October 7, 2016. | Activist seeking campaign finance reform; landed a gyrocopter onto the U.S. Capitol Lawn in April 2015. |- | align="center" | Harlem Suarez | align="center" | [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=06262-104x=87&y=14 06262-104]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} | | Serving a life sentence; now at [[United States Penitentiary, Florence High|USP Florence High]] | [[ISIS]] sympathizer; charged with attempting to detonate a [[improvised explosive device|backpack bomb]] on a public beach in Key West.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Weaver|first1=Jay|title=FBI: Key West man charged with trying to use backpack bomb in terror plot|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-keys/article29166250.html|access-date=31 July 2015|agency=Miami Herald|date=July 28, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Florida Resident Charged with Attempting to Use Weapon of Mass Destruction|url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/florida-resident-charged-attempting-use-weapon-mass-destruction|website=Federal Bureau of Investigation|publisher=US Department of Justice|access-date=31 July 2015|date=July 28, 2015}}</ref> |- | align="center" | [[Simone Gold]] | align="center" | 26132-509 | [[File:Simone Gold (50755976658) (1).jpg|80px]] |Released September 9, 2022 |Participated in the [[January 6 United States Capitol attack]] |- | align="center" | [[Colton Harris-Moore]] | align="center" | [https://archive.today/20130217132606/http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=83421-004&x=87&y=14 83421-004] | | Held at FDC Miami after being apprehended in the Bahamas in 2010. Released from prison in 2016. <ref>{{cite web|last=Owens|first=Ryan|title='Barefoot Bandit' Colton Harris-Moore Deported to Miami|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/TheLaw/barefoot-bandit-deported-colton-harris-moore-face-miami/story?id=11154651|work=ABC News|access-date=2 March 2013}}</ref> | Former fugitive known as the "Barefoot Bandit"; pleaded guilty in 2011 to engaging in a multi-state crime spree during which he stole several small planes and a boat, and committed numerous burglaries.<ref name="Q13FOX-20100721-Seattle">{{cite news|publisher=[[Q13 FOX]] |title=Colton Harris-Moore Lands In Seattle |url=http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-070510-moore,0,1611447.story |access-date=July 21, 2010 |date=July 21, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721072027/http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-070510-moore%2C0%2C1611447.story |archive-date=July 21, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Camano Island Man Pleads Guilty to Multi-State Crime Spree|url=https://www.fbi.gov/seattle/press-releases/2011/camano-island-man-pleads-guilty-to-multi-state-crime-spree|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=3 November 2013|date=June 17, 2011}}</ref> |- | align="center" | [[Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack#Specific arrests and charges|Paul Allard Hodgkins]] | align="center" | 30165-509 | |Released from custody in April 2022. |Participant in the [[January 6 United States Capitol attack|U.S. Capitol attack]] |- | align="center" | [[Fat Joe|Joseph Cartagena]] | align="center" | [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=64967-050&x=48&y=22 64967-050] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104001530/http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=64967-050&x=48&y=22 |date=2013-11-04 }} | [[File:Fat Joe by Sandra Alphonse.jpg|80px]] | Released from custody in December 2014; served a 4-month sentence. | [[Grammy Award]]–nominated rapper; pled guilty in 2012 to [[tax evasion|failing to file tax returns]] from 2007 to 2010 in order to avoid paying $718,00 in federal taxes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rapper fat joe sentenced to four months in prison for failing to file income tax returns on over $3.3 in taxable income|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao/nj/Press/files/Cartagena,%20Joseph%20Sentencing%20News%20Release.html|publisher=US Department of Justice|access-date=3 November 2013|date=June 24, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Fat Joe Turns Himself In To Prison|url=http://www.tmz.com/2013/08/26/fat-joe-prison-tax-evasion/|publisher=TMZ|access-date=3 November 2013|date=August 26, 2013}}</ref> |- | align="center" |[[Sean Kingston]] | align="center" |25931-511 | |Serving a 3 year sentence |Arrested in 2024 for wire fraud. |- | align="center" | [[Scott W. Rothstein]] | align="center" | Unlisted† | | Moved to an undisclosed location after entering the [[Federal Witness Protection Program]]. | Attorney; pleaded guilty in 2010 to running a [[Ponzi scheme]] which defrauded investors out of $1.2 billion<ref name="AFP-20100713-deported">{{cite news|author=Jay Weaver and Amy Sherman|title=Scott Rothstein transferred to St. Lucie jail|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/02/1507811_lawyer-scott-rothstein-let-out.html|publisher=[[Miami Herald]]|access-date=July 18, 2010|date=March 2, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Koppel|first=Nathan|title=Former Florida Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Ponzi Scheme|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704094304575029013194919020|access-date=3 November 2013|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=January 27, 2010}}</ref> |- | align="center" | [[Camilla Broe]] | align="center" | [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=82672-004&x=88&y=29 82672-004] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130217133305/http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=82672-004&x=88&y=29 |date=2013-02-17 }} | | Released from custody in February 2010 after [[drug trafficking]] charges against her were dismissed. | First Danish citizen to be extradited to a non-EU country since the founding of the [[European Union]] |- | align="center" | [[Ryan Wesley Routh]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Kevin Boulandier|title=Man accused in attempted assassination of Trump moves to federal prison in Miami|url=https://wsvn.com/news/politics/man-accused-in-attempted-assassination-of-trump-moves-to-federal-prison-in-miami/|publisher=[[WSVN]]|access-date=September 19, 2024|date=September 18, 2024}}</ref> | align="center" |35967-511<ref>{{cite web|author=|title=Find an inmate|url=https://www.bop.gov/mobile/find_inmate/byname.jsp#inmate_results|publisher=[[Federal Bureau of Prison]]|access-date=September 19, 2024|date=}}</ref> |[[File:Ryan Wesley Routh Mugshot September 2024 (4x5 cropped).jpg|80px]] | Found guilty on all Federal counts and was moved to the [[St. Lucie County, Florida|St. Lucie County]] jail. | [[Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida|Attempted to assassinate]] then-former U.S. president [[Donald Trump]] on September 15, 2024. Had volunteered on the Ukrainian side during the [[Russian Invasion of Ukraine]] in 2022. |}
==See also== {{Portal bar|United States|Politics}} *[[List of U.S. federal prisons]] *[[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] *[[FCI Miami]] *[[Incarceration in the United States]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/mim/index.jsp Federal Detention Center, Miami] {{Federal Bureau of Prisons}}
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