The Federal Correctional Institution, Herlong (FCI Herlong) is a medium-security United States

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for male inmates in California, opened in 2007. It is operated by the

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, a division of the

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. The facility also includes a satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security male offenders. FCI Herlong is located in Lassen County, in northeastern California near the Nevada border, approximately 60 miles northwest of

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, and 190 miles northeast of

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, the state capital. It is one of three prisons in the county; the other two are state prisons located in the county seat of Susanville. In 2007 half the adults in Susanville worked in one of the three facilities; together the three prisons hold approximately 11,000 inmates.Taylor, Robert. "'Prison Town' a view from outside," ''Contra Costa Times'', 28 July 2007; hosted at ''Mercury News.''
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Notable incidents

In 2009, a joint investigation conducted by the Bureau of Prisons, the

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and the

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uncovered a scheme in which three inmates at FCI Herlong: Scott Whitney, Diego Paucar and Erik Alexander, filled out false tax returns for other inmates seeking refunds. In order to portray the inmates as taxpayers, they made false W-2 forms using the names of real employers, but none of the inmates had actually worked for them. The IRS discovered the scheme and no refunds were actually paid. If the scheme had been successful, the three co-conspirators would have obtained $93,950 from the IRS. Whitney, Paucar and Alexander subsequently pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the IRS and had seven, four, and three years added to their original sentences, respectively.

Notable inmates (current and former)

References

External links

Bureau of Prisons website
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Notable incidents

Notable inmates (current and former)

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