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The Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury (FCI Danbury) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Danbury, Connecticut. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum-security female offenders. It was announced in the summer of 2013 that FCI Danbury would transition from housing women to housing men with the female inmates transferring out between August and December 2013 and the male inmates arriving in early 2014. The satellite camp will continue to house female offenders.〔Pirro, John (3 July 2013). "(FCI Danbury converting back to men's prison )". ''The News-Times''. Danbury, Connecticut. retrieved 29 July 2013.〕 FCI Danbury is located in southwestern Connecticut, approximately 55 miles from New York City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/dan/index.jsp )〕 ==History== FCI Danbury was opened in August 1940 with the purpose of housing male and female inmates. It housed several high-profile political prisoners during World War II. Conscientious objectors, including poet Robert Lowell and civil rights activist James Peck, were housed there for refusing to enter the military draft in the early 1940s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/poet-robert-lowell-sentenced-to-prison )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2008/08/robert-lowells.html )〕 Robert Henry Best served most of his life sentence at FCI Danbury after being convicted of treason in 1948 for making propaganda broadcasts for the Nazis during the war. Screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr., a member of the Hollywood 10, a group of filmmakers who were charged with contempt of Congress in 1947 for refusing to answer questions regarding their alleged connections with the Communist Party USA, served 9 months there. FCI Danbury became exclusively for female inmates in 1993. In August 2013, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced that FCI Danbury was going to be reverted to an all-male facility to alleviate overcrowding across the entire federal prison system. The female inmate population will be transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution, Aliceville in Alabama, which opened in 2013 and has over 1,500 low-security beds for female inmates. It was estimated that the change would be completed by December 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/dan/ )〕 However, female inmates were not transferred to other facilities until April 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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