Sam Bankman-Fried, indicted former crypto executive, is ready to ‘face the music,’ Bahamian prison official tells The Post
For now, Bankman-Fried is staying in the sick bay of the maximum-security block with five other men as he undergoes medical evaluation, according to Doan Cleare, acting Commissioner of Corrections at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
But the prison official said Bankman-Fried could also be transferred to a block within the maximum-security area that has been renovated. It houses inmates in individual cells, isolated from the rest of the population for safety reasons.In most areas of the prison, inmates are supposed to get an hour every day outside for exercise.
The remand area, where Chappell spent 45 days sharing a cell with four other inmates, was hardly an improvement. They all would urinate in a sink with no running water and then use their own jugs of drinking water to flush their waste. Although Chappell did have a mattress, it was full of bed bugs, he added.As he recalls, inmates were only allowed 20 to 30 minutes in the courtyard about three times a week, but that could vary depending on the section he was staying at.
During his first bail hearing last Tuesday, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers argued he should be released on bail because he has special vegan needs and has suffered from depression, insomnia and ADHD for more than a decade. There were no such options for Valentino Bethel, a current Fox Hill inmate who filed a lawsuit against the Bahamas Department of Corrections in the Supreme Court last year for breaching his constitutional rights and inflicting “inhumane treatment.” He was held in a 6-by-9-foot cell with four other inmates with no mattresses. The poor diet, including a paucity of fruits and vegetables, caused him to lose more than 30 pounds, according to court documents.
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