Silver Lining: Bahamas Jail Housing Crypto Fraudster SBF Is a Rat-Infested Hellhole
Vegan Bankman-Fried moves from $30 million penthouse to prison described as ‘unfit for humanity’
Sam Bankman-Fried, the Democratic megadonor charged with what the Department of Justice called “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history,” is being held in a Bahamas prison that’s notorious for pest infestations, unsanitary conditions, and violence.
The former FTX CEO is detained at Fox Hill Prison, the only detention facility in the Bahamas, pending his possible extradition to the United States. Inmates at Fox Hill, Barbados Today reported in 2019, often sleep in packed cells on cardboard mats on top of puddles of feces, and the cells are infested with rats and maggots.
“Dogs don’t deserve to live in the state that maximum security is in,” a prison officer at Fox Hill told the Nassau Guardian. “It’s not fit for humanity.”- READ MORE
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