Alexandria City Jail (formally William G. Truesdale - Alexandria Adult Detention Center) is a jail facility at 2001 Mill Road,

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, US serving several courts and police agencies in Northern Virginia, including the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (commonly called the Alexandria federal court). This facility is not owned or operated by the

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(BOP); the facility has an agreement with the

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Notable prisoners

Defendants involved in federal criminal proceedings there are often housed in the jail, including (with approximate dates of incarceration): * Lyndon LaRouche (October 1986 – December 1986), Presidential candidate, served 6 years of a 15-year sentence for fraud *

Aldrich Ames Aldrich Hazen "Rick" Ames (; born May 26, 1941) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer turned KGB double agent, who was convicted of espionage in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federa ...

(February 1994 – April 1994),

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officer sentenced to life for espionage *

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(March 1995 – April 1995), United Way of America

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, served 6 years of a 7-year sentence for fraud * Harold James Nicholson (November 1996), CIA officer twice convicted of espionage, sentenced to total of 33 years *

Robert Hanssen Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is an American former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) double agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2001. His espionage was described ...

(February 2001 – May 2002),

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agent serving 15 consecutive life sentences for espionage *

Zacarias Moussaoui Zacarias Moussaoui (Arabic: زكريا موسوي, '; born May 30, 1968) is a French member of al-Qaeda who pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to conspiring to kill citizens of the United States as part of the September 11 attacks. He is serv ...

(December 2001 – May 2006), French citizen, "

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" of

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plot * John Walker Lindh (June 2002 – August 2002), "

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" *

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(2002 – 2009), "

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" * John Lee Malvo (November 2002), "

" * Seifullah Chapman (2003 – 2004),

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sentenced to 65 years in " Virginia Jihad" case, exonerated in 2018 *

Iyman Faris Iyman Faris (a.k.a. Mohammad Rauf;"Ohio trucker joined al Qaeda jihad"
CNN ...

, a.k.a. Mohammad Rauf (April 2003 – October 2003),

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truck driver sentenced to 20 years for plotting to destroy the

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with blowtorch * Dr.

Ali al-Timimi Ali Al-Tamimi (also Ali Al-Timimi; born December 14, 1963, in Washington, DC, US) is an American former biologist and Islamic teacher from Fairfax County, Virginia, who was convicted of soliciting treason and attempting to contribute services t ...

(April 2005 – July 2005), biologist convicted in " Virginia Jihad" case * Judith Miller (July 7, 2005 – September 29, 2005), N.Y. Times reporter jailed for refusing to name her source in

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* Ahmed Omar Abu Ali (February 2005 – March 2006),

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national sentenced to 30 years for plotting to assassinate

George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...

Glenn Duffie Shriver Glenn Duffie Shriver (born November 23, 1981) is an American convicted of conspiracy to spy for China. He was depicted in the FBI-commissioned film ''Game of Pawns''. Biography Shriver was born in Henrico County, Virginia, near Richmond. When h ...

(2012), American citizen convicted of offenses related in an attempt to be employed by the CIA to send information to the Chinese government * Marcel Lazăr Lehel (May 2016 – September 2016), Romanian national sentenced to 52 months for hacking *

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(July 2018 – )Rachel Weiner (July 12, 2018)
"Paul Manafort moves to Alexandria jail, a past home to spies and terrorists"
''Chicago Tribune'' * Maria Butina (August 2018 – ) * Chelsea Manning (March 2019 – 9 May 2019, 16 May 2019 – 12 March 2020) American activist and

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in addition to being a former U.S. Army Soldier *

Jake Angeli Jake Angeli (born Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley; 1988), also known as the QAnon Shaman, Q Shaman, and Yellowstone Wolf, is an American conspiracy theorist and activist who participated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, for which he was c ...

(sentenced November 2021), American conspiracy theorist who participated heavily in the

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* Allison Fluke-Ekren (sentenced to 20 years, 2022), American female

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References

External links

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