With a year currently left on his sentence, former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia has had an interesting last few years

With his current release date sitting at July 11th, 2026, a former mayor of Fall River has had an interesting couple of years.

Although an exact reason was never given by officials, the now 33-year-old Jasiel Correia was on the move quite a bit.

Correia was initially serving his sentence in Berlin, New Hampshire. He then stayed briefly in Brookyln, New York before locating at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania late in November of 2023. He was then moved to a federal transfer center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in mid-December of 2023. At the beginning of 2024, he was transferred to Atlanta USP. He was then moved to FCI Ashland in Kentucky where he currently sits.

According to the Bureau of Prisons, FCI Ashland is a low security federal correction institution with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp. The facility has a population of 1,313. FCI Ashland began operations in 1940 and houses male only inmates.

FCI Ashland was ranked one of the 10 cushiest prisons in 2009 by Forbes stating that it “has a history of housing high-profile inmates. Mystery writer Dashiell Hammett spent several months here in the early 1950s after being found in contempt of court for refusing to testify about alleged Communist activities. More recently it’s been home to plaintiff super-lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs of Mississippi, who won billions of dollars from the tobacco industry in the 1990s only to be sentenced to prison” for bribing a judge.

After settling in at FCI Ashland, Correia attempted to get his sentence reduced.

In May of 2024, Correia claimed that his former lawyer, Kevin Reddington, tried to extort $50,000 from him before the trial, that Correia gave him $306,000 to reimburse SnoOwl investors that was never paid to them, and that Reddington agreed to consolidate all of his cases without his consent. He also asserted that the trial judge who sentenced him either did not know or was misled about the fact that witnesses that testified at the behest of the government did not receive sentences of incarceration.

Correia’s mother and wife filed statements in support of his claims.

Reddington strongly disputed Correia’s assertions.

According to a ruling in October of 2024 by Judge Allison Burroughs, Correia’s sentence was a significant departure from the advisory guideline sentencing range for his crimes of conviction which was 151–188 months.

Burroughs stated that a motion for a sentence reduction is not the forum for litigating ineffective counsel claims, but the Court noted that Correia was acquitted of several counts by the jury, and then acquitted by the Court of an additional ten counts after his counsel moved for a judgment of acquittal.

Burroughs found that Correia failed to meet his burden of demonstrating “extraordinary and compelling reasons” that would justify his early release.

“His crime was serious and warrants the arguably already generous sentence imposed.”

Correia, who was convicted of defrauding investors through his SnoOwl app in addition to extorting money from marijuana companies, lost his appeal in November of 2022.

It should be interesting to see what will come of Correia once released. Some Fall River residents have expressed that he should run again for mayor resurfacing memories of former Providence mayor Buddy Cianci who returned to the post once he was released from prison on a racketeering conspiracy charge. While that would be shocking to some, we first have to get through the 2025 election.