Posted on 07/18/2023 1:13:48 AM PDT by Libloather
A flight attendant who thwarted the British man who tried to detonate explosives in his shoe on a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001 says he has been pushing to move from his supermax prison back to his native England.
Cristina Jones, 61, said she has been informed that 'shoe-bomber' Richard Reid has been trying to transfer from Colorado prison ADX Florence, also known as 'The Alcatraz of the Rockies', to a nicer confinement closer to home.
'I was contacted as they were notifying me he had made a petition to be transferred back to the UK,' Jones said.
Reid is serving life without parole after he tried to set off the shoe bombs on a Paris-to-Miami American Airlines flight just months after the September 11 attacks.
Though it's not clear the exact prison Reid would have been transferred to, Jones says she was asked what her thoughts were on the possibility.
'It was my understanding that they would always contact me with updates of which they previously did,' she told The Mirror.
'They sought my opinion over his petition, which was, of course, negative. I opposed his move back to Britain.'
In addition, Jones claims that Reid was 'missing' from the prison system for about two weeks recently.
Benjamin O'Cone, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, confirmed that he had been outside BOP custody for a brief period.
'There are several reasons why an inmate may be referenced as 'not in BOP custody. Inmates who were previously in BOP custody and who have not completed their sentence may be outside BOP custody for a period of time for court hearings, medical treatment or for other reasons.'
'We do not provide specific information on the status of inmates who are not in the custody of the BOP for safety, security...
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I drive 12 hours to Colorado and/or 12 hours to Florida. Straight through. My longest is 24 hours from Yellowstone Nat’l Park. Never flying again.
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