BUJU MOVED AGAIN - Deejay relocated to Miami from Oklahoma

 
Deejay Buju Banton heads back to Florida to serve some of his 10-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution Miami.
This is one of many moves for the incarcerated reggae star who has been sentenced to 10 years on federal drug charges. According to browardpalmbeach.com, the singer went from Florida to Oklahoma to Texas, back to Oklahoma, and now to Miami, according to David Oscar Markus, Banton's attorney.
The website elaborated that plans to place Banton in a Mississippi prison fell through when authorities discovered that a co-defendant in the case had already been assigned to the facility. Authorities then stowed Banton in a Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City before moving him to a correctional institution in Groesbeck, Texas.
According to Buju's lawyer, David Markus, Buju endured several hardships during two-month stay in the Texas facility; describing the environment as one of a violent and unhealthy nature that made the singjay rather uncomfortable. "He was at one of the worst places you can imagine — a county facility that had been converted to house federal inmates," Markus was quoted as saying. "The place was used for short-stay Mexican nationals who were going to be deported. It was filled with Mexican gangs. Buju was one of very few black men in there. It was really violent."
Markus expressed pleasure with the judge in Buju's trial, James Moody and the Jamaican consulate, who pleaded with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to move the artiste from the Texas prison as soon as possible. Markus plans to appeal Buju's ten-year sentence; filing a brief with Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta later next month.
A benefit concert paying tribute to Buju Banton will take place this Saturday from the Supa D Tropical Bar & Grill in Tampa, Florida. All proceeds from the event will go towards Buju's appeal; with the hope for raising US$50,000 for the cause. Reggae artistes scheduled to perform include Delly Ranx, Nadine Sutherland, Gramps Morgan among several others.
Buju Banton was convicted in February of conspiring to organise a drug deal within a police-controlled warehouse, along with two other charges in relation to the December 2009 incident.