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Ben Weiss

Sam Bankman-Fried sent to ‘notoriously hard’ prison in California, then low-security facility in LA

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The Federal Bureau of Prisons has transferred Sam Bankman-Fried to a prison in California, according to the BOP’s inmate database. The former CEO was first at a medium-security prison in Victorville, a small city east of Los Angeles, through Thursday. He was then transferred to a low-security prison in Los Angeles as of Friday.

Kyle Sandler, a federal prison consultant who was released from federal custody a year ago, said Victorville was a “notoriously hard” facility. Terminal Island, where Bankman-Fried now resides, is cushier. "You're living in a dormitory and such," Larry Levine, another federal prison consultant, told Fortune, in reference to low-security facilities.

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