After being denied bail in a Bahamas Magistrate Court, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried could spend up to two months in the country’s Fox Hill Prison, a facility with reported cases of physical abuse against prisoners and “harsh” conditions.
According to a 2021 human rights report from the U.S. State Department, conditions at Fox Hill were “harsh” based on investigations which determined the facility was overcrowded, prisoners had poor nutrition, and there was inadequate sanitation and medical care. The report also included cases of physical abuse by correctional officers.
“Maximum-security cells for men measured approximately six feet by 10 feet and held up to six persons with no mattresses or toilet facilities,” said the report. “Inmates removed human waste by bucket. Prisoners complained of the lack of beds and bedding. Some inmates developed bedsores from lying on bare ground. Sanitation was a general problem, and cells were infested with rats, maggots, and insects.”
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