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<p>Former Luzerne County judge Michael Conahan has been moved to a minimum security satellite camp in Miami, Florida, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.</p><p>The camp opened in 1976 and houses 397 male offenders, the bureau said.</p><p>The relocation is an improvement for the 64-year-old Hazleton native because prison camps have dormitory-style housing, limited or no perimeter fencing and more access to work and program opportunities, according to online information.</p><p>In comparison, the Federal Correctional Complex at Coleman in Florida, where Conahan had been lodged for five years and three months, or since November 2011, was a low-security facility surrounded by barbed-wire fencing located 46 miles northwest of Orlando.</p><p>Inmates in low-security prisons are locked in cells at night, officials have said.</p><p>Conahan was transferred from Coleman to a detention center at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee, Florida, earlier this month to await transfer to the Miami facility.</p><p>He is incarcerated for a racketeering charge related to his acceptance of money in exchange for decisions that benefited two privately owned juvenile detention centers.</p><p>The federal prison bureau initiates transfers but does not publicly discuss the rationale. Conahan may have been eligible for placement in a camp because he now has less than a decade remaining on his sentence. His scheduled release date is Dec. 18, 2026.</p><p>The Miami camp is adjacent to a low-security correctional institution. A photograph of the complex on the bureau website shows a well-manicured lawn with several palm trees at the entrance.</p><p><ins>For other local news stories, <a href="https://www.timesleader.com/category/local" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">click here</a>.</ins></p>
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Former judge Conahan moved to Miami prison camp