The Florida prison where disgraced reality TV star Todd Chrisley is being lodged is set to close.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) announced this week they would permanently close multiple federal prisons around the country, including FPC Pensacola, due to “critical staffing shortage, crumbling infrastructure, and limited budgetary resources,” the Associate Press first reported.
Former real estate tycoons and “Chrisley Knows Best” stars Chrisley and his wife, Julie, were found guilty of committing tax evasion and defrauding community banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans back in June 2022. Julie was additionally convicted of obstruction of justice and wire fraud.
What will happen to the 55-year-old Chrisley? Here’s what to know and his past comments about the prison’s allegedly inhumane conditions.
Where is FPC Pensacola located?
Todd began his 12-year sentence at the Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola on Jan. 17 of 2023.
The Pensacola prison is described as a “minimum security federal prison camp,” according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. In 2009, Forbes listed FPC Pensacola as the second “cushiest” prison in America.
Julie, 51, is serving time at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky.
Why is FPC Pensacola closing down?
Federal Prison Camp Pensacola will permanently close as part of a nationwide fix for “several significant challenges” with the Bureau of Prisons.
In a release sent to the USA TODAY Network’s Pensacola News Journal, FBOP says FPC Pensacola, which is a minimum security male prison located on Saufley Field, will be deactivated as a prison to “maximize resources and mitigate safety concerns.”
“This will also help alleviate staffing shortages across the FBOP,” the release said. “The structures that make up FPC Pensacola are owned by the U.S. Navy, which is in the process of moving all its assets to Naval Air Station Pensacola.”
Once all the inmates and current employees are moved, the Navy will demolish all vacated buildings, which are in “significant disrepair.”
Todd Chrisley called Florida prison ‘filthy’ in 2023. Here’s what he said
In an interview for NewsNation’s “CUOMO” last December, Chrisley said he and other inmates are living in filthy conditions, adding he believes he is being targeted by prison staff.
Speaking to reporter Brian Entin in a phone call via his lawyer, the “Chrisley Knows Best” star shared that the food is out of date by at least a year. He only eats tuna and peanut butter that he can buy in the commissary but even that is a challenge.
“I’ve been told this by a staff member — one of the ways she’s trying to break me is by cutting down what you can buy in commissary,” he said. “So, before she came here, you could buy 12 packs of tuna a week. She cut it down to six, and from six it went to three. She had not given a reason — when I asked her about it, she said commissary is a privilege, not a right.”
He said that the prison is “literally starving these men to death here.”
He went on to claim that there are animals — some dead — found near food storage areas.
“You have got rats, you have got squirrels in the storage facility where the food is. They just covered it up with plastic and tore the ceiling out because of all the black mold, and they found a dead cat in the ceiling that fell down on top of the food,” he said.
Chrisley also claimed he “feared for his life” in Pensacola prison
Chrisley detailed the treatment from the prison guards and staff, recalling the things that had been said about him to Entin.
“There are recordings of staff members here talking about ‘he needs to be humbled. What we need to do is put him in diesel therapy and put him in shackles and let him ride around the country and bring him back and will humble him,’ ” Chrisley shares. ” ‘He thinks he is in one of his mansions but this is the f— (Bureau of Prisons). That is what he will need.'”
Chrisley also told NewsNation that a photograph was taken of him while he was sleeping and sent to his daughter asking for $2,600 to keep him protected in prison.
In a 2023 statement to NewsNation and various media organizations, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said its mission is to “operate facilities that are safe, secure, and humane” and that “humane treatment of the men and women in our custody is a top priority.”
What will happen to Todd Chrisley after FPC Pensacola’s closure?
In response to the News Journal asking about Chrisley’s new prison home, the FBOP said, “For privacy, safety and security reasons we do not discuss any incarcerated individuals’ conditions of confinement, reasons for transfer or specific release place.”
However, FBOP did say they would make “every effort” to place inmates of impacted facilities within 500 miles of their current facility.
The closest facility to FPC Pensacola is the Federal Correctional Institute in Marianna, Florida.
Why are Julie and Todd Chrisley, reality TV stars, in prison?
Todd and Julie Chrisley were found guilty of committing tax evasion and defrauding community banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans in June 2022. Julie Chrisley was additionally convicted of obstruction of justice and wire fraud.
The couple was first sentenced to 12 and seven years in prison, respectively, in November of 2022. In addition to their prison sentences, news outlets reported that they each received an order of 16 months probation from U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross in Atlanta.
When will Todd and Julie Chrisley get out of prison?
According to FBOP records, Todd Chrisley will be released on June 11, 2032, two years sooner than his original sentence.
Julie Chrisley’s sentence was reduced by 14 months and will be released on March. 23, 2028. Back in September, her request for a reduced sentence was rejected by U.S. District Judge Eleanor L. Ross.
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