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Inside tough Miami jail where sick Scots softplay paedo has been banged up
The prison has been home to a range of notorious criminals
BEHIND BARS Inside tough Miami jail where sick Scots softplay paedo has been banged up
A SICK Scots soft play paedo has been banged up in a tough US jail which previously held a military dictator and the disgraced manager of the Back Street Boys.
Steven Paul McInally, 37, was sentenced to 25 years in the US after he was caught with child abuse images when he arrived in the States for a holiday.
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Steven Paul McInally was jailed for 25 years in the US
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McInally's soft play centre has been shut down
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FCI Miami has been rocked by a string of violent incidents
The perv from Tollcross, Glasgow, is now being held at the Federal Correctional Institution Miami.
The jail has been rocked by a string of violent incidents — in May last year it was put in lockdown after a bloody brawls between rival gangs saw four injured in a housing unit, including two stabbed, in May 2024.
And in April 2023 a riot involving more than 100 inmates broke out in the recreation yard and staff recovered a number of weapons.
The low security nick was previously home to shameless music mogul Lou Pearlman who fleeced Backstreet Boys and NSYNC out of millions.
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Other notable inmates include former Panama dictator Manuel Noriega who was locked up for drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering.
And last year, former White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, was held there for a contempt of Congress conviction.
Photos show the red-roofed jail beneath a cloudless sky with a lake at the centre of buildings.
It was previously known as the Metropolitan Correctional Center Miami but renamed in 2000 and is now classed as a 'low security facility' with around 979 inmates.
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The jail has a campus-like architecture with a lake in the middle of its compound and inmates are housed two or three to a cell.
They have access to high school diploma classes, recreation programs and an institutional commissary.
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Despite the tough edge inmates can choose from hundreds of items, including ice cream, soft drinks, sweets and savoury snacks, meds and grooming products - like baby shampoo.
Cons can also purchase luxury items, including watches, radios, MP-3 players, headphones, sunglasses and posh toilet paper.
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Last year, US politicians proposed to change the prison's name to the 'Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution'.
A former union prison warden union boss said most inmates are in for about five years but warned of conflicts with cons who are there 20 years to life.
Twisted McInally's release date has been set for December 2044, according to his profile on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.
He was jailed following a probe by US Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations.
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We told how the beast landed at Melbourne Orlando International Airport, Florida, in August 2023.
US cops demanded the married dad-of-three open his phone and discovered around 3,900 disgusting images and 70 videos of child abuse and was arrested.
Police Scotland cops then swooped on the soft play he owns, Go Wild in Glasgow's Bridgeton.
The depraved soft play boss pled guilty to the charges on November 1 last year.
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He was sentenced in February this year.
Police Scotland said they were liaising closely with American authorities and making enquiries into any offences which may have been committed in Scotland.
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Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was previously held at FCI Miami
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Boy-band creator Lou Perlman was also jailed at the tough prison
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A FBOP prison spokesman said: 'We can confirm Steven Paul McInally is in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) at the Federal Correctional Institution Miami, and he has a projected release date of December 12, 2044.'
