Sam Bankman-Fried’s Bahamas jail luxury: cable, AC and a toilet


He’s been allowed to play crossword puzzles, watch cable TV and read local newspapers. He has taken numerous calls from his lawyer over a special line connected to the visitor centre a floor below. — Reuters

Sam Bankman-Fried, shirtless in black sweatpants, lies in the fifth cot - the one nearest the door, by the rasping fan, past the frail old man and the prisoner on suicide watch.

Keys jangle. The morning guards arrive. Downstairs, in squalid maximum-security cells, another hellish night is ending.

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