A court has ordered Steve Bannon, the former chief of staff to President Donald Trump, to report to Federal Correctional Institution Danbury in Danbury, Connecticut. The Tennessee Star verified this information on Tuesday, after a CNN story that claimed to have unnamed sources.
The Star was informed on Tuesday by Sabrina Moore, an executive assistant and operations administrator for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), that "Mr. Bannon has been initially designated to FCI Danbury, CT, which is a low security male facility."
One tier of security above a minimal security jail is what FCI Danbury is known as: low security. Although FCI Danbury has a minimal security satellite camp with 105 prisoners, Moore's statement suggests that Bannon would spend his four-month term in the prison's low security section, which has around 1,068 inmates.
Relatively low staff-to-inmate ratios, dormitory accommodations, and little to no perimeter fencing are characteristics of minimum security facilities, often referred to as Federal Prison Camps (FPCs),” the BOP states. "These establishments prioritize work and programs." Prisons with low security are somewhat harsher.
As to the BOP, "Low security Federal Correctional Institutions (FCIs) have strong work and program components, mostly dormitory or cubicle housing, and double-fenced perimeters." "These institutions have a higher staff-to-inmate ratio than minimum security facilities."
Bannon filed an appeal with the Supreme Court's Justice John Roberts, who is in charge of hearing emergency appeals from Washington, D.C., according to an Associated Press story on Friday. In response, the chief justice granted the Department of Justice until Wednesday to provide input.
The conviction in 2022 for contempt of Congress for disobeying a subpoena from the committee on January 6 is what led to Bannon's jail term. A denied appeal led to Bannon's reporting to jail on July 1.
His lawyer said that Bannon's case addressed the notion of presidential privilege and that ignoring the subpoena was the only appropriate response. Bannon disregarded the subpoena as a result.
After an appellate court upheld Bannon's conviction in May, Bannon's attorney David I. Schoen released a statement saying, "In America, we do not criminally prosecute, let alone convict and send to prison people who not only do not believe their conduct to be wrongful or in violation of the law, but, as in this case, people who follow the advice of their lawyers who tell them that the law does not permit them to comply with a congressional subpoena when Executive Privilege has been invoked." In writing, President Trump explicitly informed the trial court that, with regard to the subpoena that Mr. Bannon received, he had in fact used Executive Privilege.
Attorney General Merrick Garland of the Department of Justice (DOJ) finally oversaw the federal case against Bannon. There will be no criminal contempt of Congress charges brought against Garland, who himself disobeyed congressional subpoenas to produce audio recordings between President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur, who was in charge of a criminal investigation into the President's purported mishandling of classified documents. In order to keep the audio recordings private, Biden used executive privilege.
The DOJ's Department of Legislative Affairs explained its decision not to prosecute Garland by saying, "Consistent with this longstanding position and uniform practice, the Department has determined that the responses by Attorney General Garland to the subpoenas issued by the Committees did not constitute a crime, and accordingly the Department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the Attorney General."
The Star was informed on Tuesday by Sabrina Moore, an executive assistant and operations administrator for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), that "Mr. Bannon has been initially designated to FCI Danbury, CT, which is a low security male facility."
One tier of security above a minimal security jail is what FCI Danbury is known as: low security. Although FCI Danbury has a minimal security satellite camp with 105 prisoners, Moore's statement suggests that Bannon would spend his four-month term in the prison's low security section, which has around 1,068 inmates.
Relatively low staff-to-inmate ratios, dormitory accommodations, and little to no perimeter fencing are characteristics of minimum security facilities, often referred to as Federal Prison Camps (FPCs),” the BOP states. "These establishments prioritize work and programs." Prisons with low security are somewhat harsher.
As to the BOP, "Low security Federal Correctional Institutions (FCIs) have strong work and program components, mostly dormitory or cubicle housing, and double-fenced perimeters." "These institutions have a higher staff-to-inmate ratio than minimum security facilities."
Bannon filed an appeal with the Supreme Court's Justice John Roberts, who is in charge of hearing emergency appeals from Washington, D.C., according to an Associated Press story on Friday. In response, the chief justice granted the Department of Justice until Wednesday to provide input.
The conviction in 2022 for contempt of Congress for disobeying a subpoena from the committee on January 6 is what led to Bannon's jail term. A denied appeal led to Bannon's reporting to jail on July 1.
His lawyer said that Bannon's case addressed the notion of presidential privilege and that ignoring the subpoena was the only appropriate response. Bannon disregarded the subpoena as a result.
After an appellate court upheld Bannon's conviction in May, Bannon's attorney David I. Schoen released a statement saying, "In America, we do not criminally prosecute, let alone convict and send to prison people who not only do not believe their conduct to be wrongful or in violation of the law, but, as in this case, people who follow the advice of their lawyers who tell them that the law does not permit them to comply with a congressional subpoena when Executive Privilege has been invoked." In writing, President Trump explicitly informed the trial court that, with regard to the subpoena that Mr. Bannon received, he had in fact used Executive Privilege.
Attorney General Merrick Garland of the Department of Justice (DOJ) finally oversaw the federal case against Bannon. There will be no criminal contempt of Congress charges brought against Garland, who himself disobeyed congressional subpoenas to produce audio recordings between President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur, who was in charge of a criminal investigation into the President's purported mishandling of classified documents. In order to keep the audio recordings private, Biden used executive privilege.
The DOJ's Department of Legislative Affairs explained its decision not to prosecute Garland by saying, "Consistent with this longstanding position and uniform practice, the Department has determined that the responses by Attorney General Garland to the subpoenas issued by the Committees did not constitute a crime, and accordingly the Department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the Attorney General."
