Overview
- Santos says Special Investigative Services at FCI Fairton moved him to the Special Housing Unit after officials warned of a plot to kill him.
- He wrote that the FBI has taken over the threat investigation, extending his SHU stay beyond an initial 30 days set by the prison.
- In a handwritten letter and social posts, he alleges punitive conditions including a dirty 15-by-17-foot cell, limited ice-cold showers, and curtailed calls and visitation.
- The Bureau of Prisons declined to discuss his housing or conditions, and the FBI offered no additional information, referring inquiries back to the BOP.
- Santos is serving a roughly seven-year federal sentence for fraud and identity theft and has publicly sought clemency from President Trump.