Fallen crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried is being held in a Bahamian jail known to be overrun with rats and maggots — one so bad a warden has called it “not fit for humanity.”
The accused fraudster, once estimated to be worth $32 billion, is being held in the island’s only correctional facility, Fox Hill Prison, until at least Feb. 8 after failing to get bail while fighting against extradition to the US.
The jail was the focus of a damning report last year by the US Department of State into possible human rights violations, including violence and abuse by staff.
“Inmates removed human waste by bucket,” the government report noted of the jail where often six inmates are crammed into tiny cells that are only six feet by 10 feet.
[Presumably, Bankman-Fried will not strenuously contest extradition. Maybe he should have chosen his hideout more carefully. — Ed]
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