Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has been moved to a low-security prison with “no bars, towers, or locks” to complete his 23-year prison sentence in the United States (US).
The US Bureau of Prisons confirmed yesterday that Coke had been transferred to the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution (FCI), located in the state of New Jersey.
“I have him here,” a spokesperson at Fort Dix confirmed to The Gleaner.
The spokesperson, however, indicated that it was against government policy to disclose when Coke was transferred and why.
The Fort Dix FCI is located in Burlington County, New Jersey, and currently houses just over 4,000 male inmates. According to its admission and orientation handbook for inmates, which has been published on the Internet, the facility has “no bars, towers, or locks on the rooms located within the community units”.
“Inmates must demonstrate a high degree of responsibility and the expectations are that each inmate will comply,” the document noted.
THIRD INSTITUTION
This is the third institution across the American penal system to house the second-generation Tivoli Gardens strongman since 2011, when he pleaded guilty to drugs and firearm charges in a New York federal court.
Coke was first housed at the high-security Metropolitan Detention Centre, located in Brooklyn, New York, in the days after he was extradited from Jamaica, and remained there for a while after his conviction.
More than 70 persons, including a member of the Jamaica Defence Force, were killed in West Kingston in May 2010 as heavily armed thugs loyal to Coke battled the security forces for over two days to prevent his arrest and extradition. He was extradited to the US a month later.
In 2013, Coke was transferred from New York to the Edgefield FCI, located near the border of South Carolina and Georgia.
The Fort Dix FCI said that the average age of inmates at the facility is 41, while the average sentence is 11 years.
“Most inmates are from this area, and there is a large number of deportable aliens confined here,” the institution revealed.
Coke is scheduled to be released on July 4, 2030, according to the US Bureau of Prisons.
Reports of the latest transfer come more than a week after Coke’s younger brother, Leighton ‘Livity’ Coke, was shot and injured at Hellshire Beach in St Catherine.
Dat is a set up to be killed. They are gonna kill him.
If so be the case, that would be justice pon top of justice pon top of justice!
Weep not from that ….
This is a common practice when prisoners are cooperating aka snitching.This also happened in Viv blake case.Prezi will be out in less than 8yrs,screenshot this certainty.
thats what he should have done since 2009 and prevent the massacre of over 70 people, he should have deceive those unscrupulous people in the government who were protecting him at the time, with the help of his trusted attorney surrender to US authorities without those people knowledge, face your trial, take a plea bargain, COOPORATE FULLY, THROW THOSE DIRTY POLITICIANS AND HIGH SOCIETY CRIMINAL PEOPLE UNDER THE BUS, and he would have gotten a reasonable lesser sentence.
Agreed with you ramjam. The only way those same idiots inna tivoli will get justice unless dem kill him rass inna prison which I pray will happen. A snitch the pussy snitch mek him get transfer to a lower facility. A dead him fi dead!
Fort Dix is a chill spot for inmates. I agree with Yardie, when cooperate with the authorities you get this kind of treatment. Look out for more surprising news on this one. Mi nuh think 2030 a ketch him inna prison.
@ramjam I think he thought that he would still have their support even when he left. I guess it finally hit him. He will enjoy his time at Fort Dix. Nuff celebrity ova deh. Apollo from Real Housewives of Atlanta is there. Link him Dudus.
He is not the only one snitching, approximately over 60 persons from Jamaica got U Visas regarding that case….they are now residing in the U.S.A
He will be back home in no time (<3 years). The great Tony Welch was given 40-years and served only 3-years and then deported. Tony Welch snitched on many.
Ft. Dix is fitting for the crime he plead to….Drug dealing, which is a non violent crime. Not saying he’s not an unscrupulous area leader who massacred plenty, but per the U.S. Govt he plead to a non violent crime,hence the reason for a lower security prison. And FYI Ft. Dix is a hell hole as far as federal prisons. It’s just close to N.Y. and the tri state that’s the only good thing as far as family connections and visits.
dear anon
dudus did not plead guilty to drug dealing but rather gun smuggling.He wasnt even charged for drugs. I am genuinely asking you now because i am not certain …so please tell me if drug dealing crimes are NOT considered violent crime? i know that scamming n boosting are non violent in usa but in Jamaica THE PPL ARE BEEN A DEADING! ETREMELY VIOLENT HERE A YARD THE SCAMMING CHECK MOBAY HANOVER N THE WEST IN GENERAL.
Work di ting Shortman like a GP u deh
He’s custody level is low cause his age the BOP uses a point system to desonate inmates you have the penitentiary & medium & low & satellite low & camp< (minimum custody) he can never go to a camp for 2 reasons (1) he is not a US citizen (2) he has to much time left on his sentence he's at a low which still has a gate around the facility unlike a camp you can just walk away from it its like a college campus I've been incarcerated in The feds so i knw ive was at medium & low & satellite low & and i finish my sentence at Miami camp close to the zoo Miami..
Anonymous 100% correct,where he is got locks doors and a fence as round it. That a article is misleading. By federal law no non us citizens can be on a camp and 2nd no one eligible for deportation can be house in a camp, which is dudus status.