Alexandria City Jail
Alexandria City Jail is a jail facility at 2001 Mill Road, Alexandria, Virginia, serving several courts and police agencies in Northern Virginia, including the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, commonly called the Alexandria federal court.
This facility is not owned or operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; the facility has an agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service.
Notable prisoners
Defendants involved in federal criminal proceedings there are often housed in the jail, including :- Wilbert Lee Evans, Virginia death row inmate who was convicted of murdering a deputy sheriff while trying to escape the jail
- Lyndon LaRouche, Presidential candidate, served 6 years of a 15-year sentence for fraud
- Aldrich Ames, CIA officer sentenced to life for espionage
- William Aramony, United Way of America CEO, served 6 years of a 7-year sentence for fraud
- Harold James Nicholson, CIA officer twice convicted of espionage, sentenced to total of 33 years
- Robert Hanssen, FBI agent serving 15 consecutive life sentences for espionage
- Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen, "20th hijacker" of 9/11 plot
- John Walker Lindh, "American Taliban"
- John Allen Muhammad , "Beltway sniper"
- John Lee Malvo, "Beltway sniper"
- Seifullah Chapman, U.S. Marine sentenced to 65 years in "Virginia Jihad" case, exonerated in 2018
- Iyman Faris, a.k.a. Mohammad Rauf, Ohio truck driver sentenced to 20 years for plotting to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch
- Dr. Ali al-Timimi, biologist convicted in "Virginia Jihad" case
- Judith Miller, N.Y. Times reporter jailed for refusing to name her source in Plame affair criminal investigation
- Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, Saudi national sentenced to 30 years for plotting to assassinate George W. Bush
- Glenn Duffie Shriver, American citizen convicted of offenses related in an attempt to be employed by the CIA to send information to the Chinese government
- Eric Harroun, US citizen who fought for the Free Syrian Army and was allegedly compelled to fight for the al-Qaeda offshoot al-Nusra Front. After it became clear he wasn't fighting for a group classified as terrorist, he was released on minor charges.
- Marcel Lazăr Lehel, Romanian national sentenced to 52 months for hacking
- Paul Manafort
- Maria Butina
- Chelsea Manning American activist and whistleblower in addition to being a former U.S. Army Soldier
- Jake Angeli, a.k.a. Jacob Chansley, "QAnon shaman" American conspiracy theorist who participated heavily in the 2021 United States Capitol attack
- Allison Fluke-Ekren, American female jihadist