The administrative facility employed 200 staff as of 2002 and housed 608 male and female inmates as of March 23, 2015.[2][5]
Background
FDC SeaTac
Opened in September 1997, the detention center was designed for a capacity of 1000 inmates.[1] The facility houses sentenced inmates, both male and female, as well as pre-trial, holdover, and immigration detainees.[3] Many are involved in federal court proceedings in the Western District of Washington.
Procedures
Inmates are issued a "standard bed roll" consisting of bedding and towels upon arrival. Once assigned to a unit, inmates are estimated for size, provided clothes, and issued an identification card that must be carried at all times except to and from showers.[3]
Roxanna Brown, the director of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum, died in a cell at the detention center on May 14, 2008. She had been arrested on May 9 for alleged wire fraud upon her arrival in the United States to give a lecture at an Asian art symposium at the University of Washington.[6] The charge was dropped immediately after her death at the facility.[7]
A medical malpractice lawsuit was filed by her son Taweesin Jaime Ngerntongdee after it was determined that Brown died of peritonitis caused by a perforated ulcer.[6] The suit claimed that she had suffered stomach problems in the detention center and other inmates took her to a shower after a guard did not respond when she vomited something that "smelled like excrement." When Brown called for help after the 10 p.m. lockdown on May 13, the guard told her that she would have to wait until the morning for medical attention, according to the suit.[7] Detention center officials acknowledged that there was no overnight medical staff on duty and took the case to mediation. The federal government settled the case for $880,000 in July 2009. Attorney Tim Ford stated that part of the settlement stipulated that Brown's death would be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.[6]
American criminal and former fugitive nicknamed the "Barefoot Bandit"; pleaded guilty in 2011 to stealing several small planes and a boat, and bank burglary; also committed over 100 home burglaries.[9][10]
Served 30 months at SeaTac, Released on March 28, 2023.
Arrested on October 1, 2020, for his participation in the hacking of the Nintendo Switch and sentenced to 40-month term on February 12, 2022. Member of the Team Xecuter group.
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