CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Records from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons show imprisoned former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is now being held at RRM Phoenix.
It’s a residential re-entry facility in Arizona, also called a “halfway house.”
Blankenship is scheduled for release on May 10.
He had previously been serving out a one year sentence at Correctional Institute Taft in Bakersfield, California after starting that sentence on May 12, 2016.
In Dec. 2015, Blankenship was convicted of conspiring to willfully violate mandatory mine safety laws at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County prior to the Apr. 2010 explosion that killed 29 coal miners.
Earlier this year, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his conviction.
Blankenship does still have the option of taking an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.