# Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto

The Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto (FCI Loretto) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Pennsylvania. An adjacent satellite prison camp houses minimum-security male offenders. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
FCI Loretto is located in Allegheny Township, Cambria County, in southwest Pennsylvania, between Altoona and Johnstown, 70 miles (110 km) east of Pittsburgh.
As of 2016, most prisoners have sentences related to illegal drugs. As of that year, the average sentence length is 12 years, and some prisoners are serving life sentences.

## History

FCI Loretto was constructed in 1985 on land which was occupied by St. Francis Seminary from the late 1950s to 1979. Fifteen inmates from the federal prison camp at Allenwood, Pennsylvania, assisted in the construction. These inmates included a US Representative involved in the ABSCAM scandal.
By December 2020, nearly 75% of the 856 inmates there were diagnosed with COVID-19. Several inmate family members filed lawsuits in response to reports of substandard living conditions during the pandemic and lack of speed in testing and isolating COVID-19 positive inmates.

## Notable incidents

In December 2012, the New York Post and several other media sources reported that Cameron Douglas, the son of film actor Michael Douglas, had suffered a broken leg after being assaulted at the prison. Cameron Douglas was serving a 9-year sentence for drug trafficking, and was located in the Central One Unit. It was reported that an unnamed high-ranking Mafia figure had placed a $100 bounty on him for agreeing to testify against his suppliers, brothers David and Eduardo Escalera. Douglas was later transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution, Cumberland, a medium-security facility in Maryland.

## Facility

FCI Loretto has minimal educational opportunities and a drug-abuse treatment program.
Its programs include English as a second language (ESL) and General Education Development (GED) classes. As of 2016, 125 prisoners are in the ESL and/or GED programs.

## Notable inmates (current)

| Inmate Name | Register Number | Status | Details |
| William Boyland, Jr. | 79751-053 | Serving a 14-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2025. Currently at a halfway house in New York | Former New York State Assemblyman, convicted in 2014 of numerous felony charges related to extortion, bribery, mail fraud, conspiracy and official corruption. |
| Austin Jones | 52069-424 | Serving a 10-year sentence scheduled for release in 2027 | Former YouTube star and musician convicted in 2019 of receiving child pornography after requesting underage teenage fans to send pictures and videos of themselves performing sexual acts. |
| Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela | 14022-059 | Serving a 30-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2028. | Co-founder of the now-defunct Cali Cartel, which was responsible for as much as 80% of the cocaine brought into the US in the 1970s and 1980s; co-founder Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela was also serving a 30-year sentence. |
| Brian Gunderson | 37294-509 | Serving 18 months; scheduled for release in May 2025. | Convicted of trespassing the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. |

## Notable inmates (former)

| Inmate Name | Register Number | Status | Details |
| Gordon Caplan | 86703-054 | Released from custody in 2019; served 1 month. | Attorney; pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud in connection with 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. |
| Vincent Asaro | 83223-053 | Was serving an 8-year sentence; Released on April 20, 2020. | Caporegime in the Bonanno crime family; suspected of participating in racketeering, murder, robbery, extortion, loansharking and gambling; pleaded guilty in 2017 to arson for ordering his underlings to set fire to the car of a motorist who cut him off in traffic in Queens, New York. |
| John Rowland | 15623-014 | Released from custody in 2006; served 10 months. | Governor of Connecticut from 1995 to 2004; pleaded guilty in 2004 to honest services fraud for accepting over $100,000 in gifts and favors from William Tomasso, a contractor who made millions of dollars in state business. |
| John Kiriakou | 79637-083 | Released from custody in February 2015; served 30 months. | Former CIA officer; pleaded guilty in 2012 to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act for disclosing the name of another officer involved in the agency's program to hold and interrogate detainees. |
| Raffaello Follieri | 61143-054 | Released from custody in 2012; served 4 years. | Ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway; pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering for falsely claiming to represent the Vatican in order to persuade investors to give him over $2.4 million. |
| Anthony DiNunzio | 97267-012 | Released to a halfway house in 2018; serving a 6-year sentence. | Acting boss of the Patriarca crime family in New England since 2009; pleaded guilty in 2012 to racketeering conspiracy for extorting protection payments from adult entertainment businesses in Rhode Island. |
| Robel Phillipos | 95089-038 | Released to a halfway house in 2018; serving a 3-year sentence. | Friend of Boston Marathon Bombing perpetrator Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; convicted in 2014 of making false statements to FBI Agents conducting an investigation of the bombing. |
| John Forté | 88840-079 | Released in 2008 after serving 8 years of a 14 year sentence. | Recording artist; arrested in 2000 after accepting a briefcase containing $1.4 million worth of liquid cocaine; he was convicted and sentenced to the mandatory minimum 14 years after being found guilty, and incarcerated at Loretto. |
| Paul Manafort | 35207-016 | Was serving a 7.5 year sentence and originally scheduled for official release on Christmas Eve 2024. Released from custody on December 28, 2020. | Former Trump campaign manager, lobbyist, political consultant, and lawyer. Sentenced for lobbying violations and bank and tax fraud. On May 13, 2020, Manafort was released to home confinement due to the threat of COVID-19. On December 23, 2020, Trump issued Manafort a full pardon. |