Joseph McColgan

AKA: Joseph McColgin
Released
Date of birth:1950
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1990s
Inmate Number:#27803-004
State:Alabama
Time Imprisoned:
3 Years 8 Months 19 Days
Support
Irish Republicanism Anti-Imperialism Irish Republican Army
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Biography

Irish republican prisoner held at FCI Talladega in Alabama on US federal charges relating to support for the IRA in the early 1990s; arrested as part of the Florida Stinger sting. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.

Birth-year source

  • UPI, January 12, 1990 — identifies Joseph M. McColgan as 39 at his arrest, supporting 1950 as his birth year.

Case

FCI Talladega
Charges: Conspiracy to acquire Stinger missiles
Arrested: Jan 12, 1990
Sentenced: Jun 7, 1991
Incarcerated: Jan 12, 1990
Released: Oct 1, 1993
Sentence: 51 months imprisonment; sentence later vacated and remanded by the Eleventh Circuit on July 16, 1993
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Alabama

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