United States Penitentiary, Marion
Encyclopedia
The United States Penitentiary is a Federal Bureau of Prisons
facility located in Southern Precinct
, unincorporated
Williamson County
, Illinois
. The facility is located 9 miles (14.5 km) south of Marion
, 120 miles (193.1 km) from St. Louis
, and 300 miles (482.8 km) from Chicago
. It was built in 1963 to replace the Alcatraz prison in San Francisco, which closed the same year. According to Carl Sifakis, author of The Encyclopedia of American Prisons (New York, NY:Facts on File, Inc., 2003), "Amnesty International has categorized it as inhumane" (156).
in 1983.
Marion was one of two supermax
prisons in the Federal Bureau of Prisons
, the other being ADX Florence
in Colorado
. The prison was originally constructed to hold 500 inmates. In 1968, a behavior modification program was implemented, called Control and Rehabilitation Effort, or CARE. Inmates placed in CARE wound up either in solitary confinement
, or were subjected to "group therapy", which involved psychological sessions.
In 1975 five prisoners (Maurice Philion, Arthur Mankins, Michael Gargano, Edward Roche, and Dennis Hunter) walked out of the front door of the prison and escaped. One of them had been an electrician and over a period of time had been required to work on the lock mechanisms of all of the doors in the main corridors. He also converted a radio into a remote control, with which he opened all of the doors. One prisoner was recaptured within hours. Two gave themselves up after they became hungry. One made it to Canada, where he was arrested and imprisoned for separate charges.
On May 24, 1978 three prisoners, Garrett Brock Trapnell, Martin Joseph McNally and James Kenneth Johnson attempted to escape with the aid of an accomplice who hijacked a helicopter and forced the pilot to land in the prison. The escape was thwarted when the pilot of the helicopter wrestled the gun away from the female hijacker and killed her before the escaping inmates boarded the aircraft.
On December 21, 1978 TWA Flight 541
from Louisville International Airport
to Kansas City International Airport
was hijacked by 17-year-old Robin Oswald to Williamson County Regional Airport
in attempt to secure the release of her father Garrett Brock Trapnell
. Oswald's mother Barbara Oswald was killed May 24, 1978, after hijacking a helicopter in a failed attempt to rescue him. Robin surrendered to F.B.I. negotiators after 10 hours at the Williamson airport.
On October 22, 1983, two prison guards, Merle E. Clutts and Robert L. Hoffman, were killed in separate incidents, both at the hands of Aryan Brotherhood
members. Clutts was stabbed by Thomas Silverstein
. The prison was, at the time, the holding place for the Federal Bureau of Prisons
' most dangerous prisoners. Despite this, two inmates were able independently to kill their accompanying guards. Relatively lax security procedures allowed a prisoner, while walking down a hall, to turn to the side and approach a particular cell. An accomplice would subsequently unlock his handcuffs
with a stolen key and provide him with a knife.
As a result of the incident, the prison in Marion went into "permanent lockdown" for the next 23 years and was completely transformed into a "control unit" prison. This penal construction and operation theory, since named supermax
(a portmanteau of super and maximum) calls for the keeping of inmates in solitary confinement
for 22-23 hours each day, and does not allow communal dining, exercising, or religious services. These practices were used as administrative measures to keep prisoners under control.
Years later, Norman Carlson
, director of the Bureau of Prisons at the time of the Marion incident, said that ordering the permanent lockdown was the only way to deal with "a very small subset of the inmate population who show absolutely no concern for human life." He pointed out that the two inmates who killed the guards were already serving multiple life sentences, so adding another would have had no effect. The "control unit" model at Marion was later the basis for ADX Florence
, which opened in 1994 as a specifically-designed supermax prison.
, Indiana. The units severely restrict the visitation rights for inmates and monitor all telephone calls and mail. Most of the inmates are Arab Muslims
. The prison also houses Daniel G. McGowan, serving seven years for involvement in two arsons at logging operations in Oregon. His sentence was given "terrorism enhancements" as authorized by the Patriot Act
.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons
created the Communication Management Unit
(CMU) in response to criticism that it had not been adequately monitoring the communications of prisoners. "By concentrating resources in this fashion, it will greatly enhance the agency's capabilities for language translation, content analysis and intelligence sharing," according to the Bureau's summary of the CMU. An ACLU law suit charges that CMUs of the federal prisons violates inmates' rights. In a Democracy Now interview on June 25, 2009, animal rights activist Andrew Stepanian talks about being jailed at the CMU. Stepanian is believed to be the first prisoner released from a CMU.
.
Permanent lockdown, where prisoners remain in their cells 23 hours a day with little to no human contact, began in 1983 and ended in 2006, when the prison began extensive renovations as a medium security prison. The renovations increased Marion's inmate population from 383 to 900. The majority of the inmates housed at Marion are weapons and drug offenders. With the addition of a Sex Offender treatment program at Marion in 2006, the majority of prisoners are now Sex Offenders.
Besides the better known former supermax penitentiary, the facility also houses a minimum security work camp as well.
Federal Bureau of Prisons
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is a federal law enforcement agency subdivision of the United States Department of Justice and is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system. The system also handles prisoners who committed acts considered felonies under the District of Columbia's...
facility located in Southern Precinct
Southern Precinct, Williamson County, Illinois
Southern Precinct, formerly township, is Congressional Township 10 South, Range 2 East of the Third Principal Meridian located in Williamson County, Illinois. It's name is generic as there have never been any large communities or trade centers within it, though it is home to Pulley's Mill...
, unincorporated
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
Williamson County
Williamson County, Illinois
-2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:*92.7% White*3.8% Black*0.4% Native American*0.8% Asian*0.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander*1.7% Two or more races*0.4% Other races*2.0% Hispanic or Latino -2000:...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
. The facility is located 9 miles (14.5 km) south of Marion
Marion, Illinois
The city of Marion is the county seat of Williamson County, Illinois. The 2010 census counted 17,193 residents, making Marion the 25th most populated city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area, in Illinois, and the second most populous city in Southern Illinois, outside of the Metro-East, behind...
, 120 miles (193.1 km) from St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
, and 300 miles (482.8 km) from Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
. It was built in 1963 to replace the Alcatraz prison in San Francisco, which closed the same year. According to Carl Sifakis, author of The Encyclopedia of American Prisons (New York, NY:Facts on File, Inc., 2003), "Amnesty International has categorized it as inhumane" (156).
History
Opened in 1963, Marion became the United States' highest security prison by 1978. The facility became the nation's first control unit when violence forced a long-term lockdownLockdown
There are several definitions for the term lockdown, the most common of which pertains to a state of containment or a restriction of progression....
in 1983.
Marion was one of two supermax
Supermax
Supermax is the name used to describe "control-unit" prisons, or units within prisons, which represent the most secure levels of custody in the prison systems of certain countries...
prisons in the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Federal Bureau of Prisons
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is a federal law enforcement agency subdivision of the United States Department of Justice and is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system. The system also handles prisoners who committed acts considered felonies under the District of Columbia's...
, the other being ADX Florence
ADX Florence
The United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility is a supermax prison for men that is located in unincorporated Fremont County, Colorado, United States, south of Florence. It is unofficially known as ADX Florence, Florence ADMAX, Supermax, or The Alcatraz of the Rockies...
in Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
. The prison was originally constructed to hold 500 inmates. In 1968, a behavior modification program was implemented, called Control and Rehabilitation Effort, or CARE. Inmates placed in CARE wound up either in solitary confinement
Solitary confinement
Solitary confinement is a special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated from any human contact, though often with the exception of members of prison staff. It is sometimes employed as a form of punishment beyond incarceration for a prisoner, and has been cited as an additional...
, or were subjected to "group therapy", which involved psychological sessions.
In 1975 five prisoners (Maurice Philion, Arthur Mankins, Michael Gargano, Edward Roche, and Dennis Hunter) walked out of the front door of the prison and escaped. One of them had been an electrician and over a period of time had been required to work on the lock mechanisms of all of the doors in the main corridors. He also converted a radio into a remote control, with which he opened all of the doors. One prisoner was recaptured within hours. Two gave themselves up after they became hungry. One made it to Canada, where he was arrested and imprisoned for separate charges.
On May 24, 1978 three prisoners, Garrett Brock Trapnell, Martin Joseph McNally and James Kenneth Johnson attempted to escape with the aid of an accomplice who hijacked a helicopter and forced the pilot to land in the prison. The escape was thwarted when the pilot of the helicopter wrestled the gun away from the female hijacker and killed her before the escaping inmates boarded the aircraft.
On December 21, 1978 TWA Flight 541
TWA Flight 541
TWA Flight 541 was a domestic passenger flight hijacked in the United States by Robin Oswald in an attempt to free Garrett Brock Trapnell, who was a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary, Marion...
from Louisville International Airport
Louisville International Airport
Louisville International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport centrally located in the city of Louisville in Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA. The airport covers 1,200 acres and has three runways. Its IATA airport code SDF is based on the airport's former name, Standiford Field...
to Kansas City International Airport
Kansas City International Airport
Kansas City International Airport , originally named Mid-Continent International Airport, is a public airport located 15 miles northwest of the central business district of Kansas City, in Platte County, Missouri, United States. In 2008, 10,469,892 passengers used the airport...
was hijacked by 17-year-old Robin Oswald to Williamson County Regional Airport
Williamson County Regional Airport
Williamson County Regional Airport is a public airport located four miles west of the central business district of Marion, a city in Williamson County, Illinois, USA. The airport covers and has two runways. It is mostly used for general aviation, although it has scheduled service to Lambert-St...
in attempt to secure the release of her father Garrett Brock Trapnell
Garrett Brock Trapnell
Garrett Brock Trapnell was a con man, bank robber, and aircraft hijacker of the 1960s and early 1970s. Trapnell initiated a string of bank robberies across the United States and Canada that netted him in excess of $1,000,000 over time...
. Oswald's mother Barbara Oswald was killed May 24, 1978, after hijacking a helicopter in a failed attempt to rescue him. Robin surrendered to F.B.I. negotiators after 10 hours at the Williamson airport.
On October 22, 1983, two prison guards, Merle E. Clutts and Robert L. Hoffman, were killed in separate incidents, both at the hands of Aryan Brotherhood
Aryan Brotherhood
The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as The Brand, the AB, or the One-Two, is a white supremacist prison gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States with about 20,000 members in and out of prison...
members. Clutts was stabbed by Thomas Silverstein
Thomas Silverstein
Thomas Silverstein is a convicted American murderer. He has been in prison for armed robbery and has been convicted of four separate murders while imprisoned, one of which was overturned. He has been in solitary confinement since 1983, when he killed prison guard Merle Clutts at the Marion...
. The prison was, at the time, the holding place for the Federal Bureau of Prisons
Federal Bureau of Prisons
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is a federal law enforcement agency subdivision of the United States Department of Justice and is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system. The system also handles prisoners who committed acts considered felonies under the District of Columbia's...
' most dangerous prisoners. Despite this, two inmates were able independently to kill their accompanying guards. Relatively lax security procedures allowed a prisoner, while walking down a hall, to turn to the side and approach a particular cell. An accomplice would subsequently unlock his handcuffs
Handcuffs
Handcuffs are restraint devices designed to secure an individual's wrists close together. They comprise two parts, linked together by a chain, a hinge, or rigid bar. Each half has a rotating arm which engages with a ratchet that prevents it from being opened once closed around a person's wrist...
with a stolen key and provide him with a knife.
As a result of the incident, the prison in Marion went into "permanent lockdown" for the next 23 years and was completely transformed into a "control unit" prison. This penal construction and operation theory, since named supermax
Supermax
Supermax is the name used to describe "control-unit" prisons, or units within prisons, which represent the most secure levels of custody in the prison systems of certain countries...
(a portmanteau of super and maximum) calls for the keeping of inmates in solitary confinement
Solitary confinement
Solitary confinement is a special form of imprisonment in which a prisoner is isolated from any human contact, though often with the exception of members of prison staff. It is sometimes employed as a form of punishment beyond incarceration for a prisoner, and has been cited as an additional...
for 22-23 hours each day, and does not allow communal dining, exercising, or religious services. These practices were used as administrative measures to keep prisoners under control.
Years later, Norman Carlson
Norman Carlson
Norman Carlson is best known for his direction of the Federal Bureau of Prisons from 1970–1987 and longtime involvement with this bureau. During his 30 year involvement, he served in the United States Penitentiary of Leavenworth, Kansas, and also in the Federal Correctional Institution of Ashland,...
, director of the Bureau of Prisons at the time of the Marion incident, said that ordering the permanent lockdown was the only way to deal with "a very small subset of the inmate population who show absolutely no concern for human life." He pointed out that the two inmates who killed the guards were already serving multiple life sentences, so adding another would have had no effect. The "control unit" model at Marion was later the basis for ADX Florence
ADX Florence
The United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility is a supermax prison for men that is located in unincorporated Fremont County, Colorado, United States, south of Florence. It is unofficially known as ADX Florence, Florence ADMAX, Supermax, or The Alcatraz of the Rockies...
, which opened in 1994 as a specifically-designed supermax prison.
Communication Management Unit
Although the facility no longer operates as a "supermax", The United States Penitentiary at Marion is now home to one of two known "Communication Management Units" in the federal prison system. The other is at the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre HauteFederal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute
The Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, is a federal prison for adult males located at the intersection of State Road 63 and Springhill Drive, two miles south of Terre Haute, Indiana United States...
, Indiana. The units severely restrict the visitation rights for inmates and monitor all telephone calls and mail. Most of the inmates are Arab Muslims
Arab Muslims
Arab Muslims are adherents of the religion of Islam who identify linguistically, culturally, or genealogically as Arabs. They greatly outnumber other ethnic groups in the Middle East. Muslims who are not Arabs are called mawali by Arab Muslims....
. The prison also houses Daniel G. McGowan, serving seven years for involvement in two arsons at logging operations in Oregon. His sentence was given "terrorism enhancements" as authorized by the Patriot Act
USA PATRIOT Act
The USA PATRIOT Act is an Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001...
.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons
Federal Bureau of Prisons
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is a federal law enforcement agency subdivision of the United States Department of Justice and is responsible for the administration of the federal prison system. The system also handles prisoners who committed acts considered felonies under the District of Columbia's...
created the Communication Management Unit
Communication Management Unit
Communication Management Unit is a recent designation for a self-contained group within a facility in the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons that severely restricts, manages and monitors all outside communication of inmates in the unit.-Origins:As part of the Bush Administration's War on...
(CMU) in response to criticism that it had not been adequately monitoring the communications of prisoners. "By concentrating resources in this fashion, it will greatly enhance the agency's capabilities for language translation, content analysis and intelligence sharing," according to the Bureau's summary of the CMU. An ACLU law suit charges that CMUs of the federal prisons violates inmates' rights. In a Democracy Now interview on June 25, 2009, animal rights activist Andrew Stepanian talks about being jailed at the CMU. Stepanian is believed to be the first prisoner released from a CMU.
- See also Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute#Communication Management Unit
The prison
The prison is located approximately nine miles south of Marion, which is roughly 330 miles (531.1 km) south of ChicagoChicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
.
Permanent lockdown, where prisoners remain in their cells 23 hours a day with little to no human contact, began in 1983 and ended in 2006, when the prison began extensive renovations as a medium security prison. The renovations increased Marion's inmate population from 383 to 900. The majority of the inmates housed at Marion are weapons and drug offenders. With the addition of a Sex Offender treatment program at Marion in 2006, the majority of prisoners are now Sex Offenders.
Besides the better known former supermax penitentiary, the facility also houses a minimum security work camp as well.
Notable inmates
| Name | Number | Status | Details |
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| Leroy Antonio "Nicky" Barnes | former drug lord Drug lord A drug lord, drug baron or kingpin is the term used to describe a person who controls a sizable network of persons involved in the illegal drugs trade. Such figures are often difficult to bring to justice, as they might never be directly in possession of something illegal, but are insulated from... of Harlem Harlem Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands... |
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| Christopher John Boyce Christopher John Boyce Christopher John Boyce is a convicted KGB who sold U.S. spy satellite secrets to the Soviet Union in the 1970s.-Espionage:... |
19347-148 | Released on parole September 16, 2002 | Soviet Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... spy |
| Ed Brown Edward and Elaine Brown Edward Lewis Brown and his wife, Elaine Alice Brown , residents of the state of New Hampshire, gained national news media attention in early 2007 for not paying the U.S. federal income tax and refusing to surrender to federal government agents after having been convicted of tax crimes... |
New Hampshire New Hampshire New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian... tax evader and protester |
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| Zachary Adam Chesser Zachary Adam Chesser Zachary Adam Chesser is an American man who pled guilty to aiding a terrorist organization. In April 2010, under the online username Abu Talhah al-Amrikee, he posted a "warning" to the creators of South Park suggesting that they would be killed for depicting Muhammad in their 200th episode... |
in USP, Marion | American who pled guilty to aiding a terrorist organization al-Shabaab | |
| James Coonan James Coonan James "Jimmy C" Coonan is an Irish-American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who is currently serving a 75-year prison term.-Biography:... |
former leader of the "Westies Westies The Westies are a predominantly Irish American organized crime association operating from the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan's West Side in New York City. According to crime author T. J... " Irish mob, which operated in Hell's Kitchen Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton and Midtown West, is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City between 34th Street and 59th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River.... , NYC |
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| William Daddano, Sr. William Daddano, Sr. William Daddano, Sr. , also known as "William Russo" and "Willie Potatoes," was a top enforcer and loan shark for the Chicago Outfit and a participant in some high-profile robberies.-Early years:... (1912–1975) |
favored "middle manager" in the Chicago Outfit Chicago Outfit The Chicago Outfit, also known as the Chicago Syndicate or Chicago Mob and sometimes shortened to simply the Outfit, is a crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois, USA... |
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| Ghassan Elashi Ghassan Elashi Ghassan Elashi was a founder of the charitable group Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and the Texas branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and a vice president of the Richardson, Texas, internet company InfoCom Corporation... |
29687-177 | In USP, Marion | Convicted in Holy Land Foundation fraud |
| Clayton Fountain (1955–2004) | Murdered correctional officer Robert L.Hoffman at USP Marion October 22, 1983. | ||
| John Gotti John Gotti John Joseph Gotti, Jr was an American mobster who became the Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. Gotti grew up in poverty. He and his brothers turned to a life of crime at an early age... (1940–2002) |
18261-053 | Moved to US Medical Center in 2002 | American mobster and head of the Gambino crime family Gambino crime family The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963... . |
| Robert Hogan | Deceased.Killed by fellow inmate. | Murdered Janice R Hylen a contract dietician at USP Atlanta November 21 1979 | |
| Christopher Jeburk Christopher Jeburk Christopher Lawrence Jeburk, born 1975, is a convicted felon, most infamous for the string of bank robberies he successfully pulled off along the East Coast of the United States. He escaped four times from prison, twice from a regional detention center and twice while in federal custody, to commit... |
prison escapee and bank robber | ||
| Chevie Kehoe Chevie Kehoe Chevie O'Brien Kehoe was said to be a self-proclaimed white supremacist and convicted murderer currently serving three consecutive life sentences for the kidnapping, torture, and murder of William Mueller and his family.-Early life:Kehoe, the oldest of eight sons born to Kirby and Gloria Kehoe,... |
murderer and white supremacist | ||
| Carlos Lehder Carlos Lehder Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas or simply Carlos Lehder is a German-Colombian drug dealer currently imprisoned in the United States, having been co-founder of the Medellín Cartel.... |
Medellin Cartel Medellín Cartel The Medellín Cartel was an organized network of "drug suppliers and smugglers" originating in the city of Medellín, Colombia. The drug cartel operated in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Central America, the United States, as well as Canada and Europe throughout the 1970s and 1980s. It was founded and... Co-Founder |
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| Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino Joseph Merlino Joseph Salvatore "Skinny Joey" Merlino was the boss of the Philadelphia crime family from 1994 to 1999, despite Ralph Natale being officially the boss, and was said to have led it primarily in extortion, bookmaking, drug trafficking, and loan sharking.-Family mob ties:Joseph Salvatore Merlino a.k.a... |
American Mobster and boss of Philadelphia Crime Family Philadelphia crime family The Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Scarfo crime family, Bruno crime family, Philadelphia Mafia, or Philly Mob, is an Italian American criminal organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of the most active American Mafia families outside of the Five Families of New York... |
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| Tom Manning Tom Manning (prisoner) Born to a Boston postal clerk, Thomas "Tom" William Manning is known for his involvement in the murder of a police officer during a routine traffic stop, and for his involvement with the United Freedom Front who bombed a series of US military and commercial institutes in the 1970s and early... |
United Freedom Front United Freedom Front The United Freedom Front was a small American Marxist organization active in the 1970s and 1980s. It was originally called the Sam Melville/Jonathan Jackson Unit, and its members became known as the Ohio 7 when they were brought to trial... militant |
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| Leonard Peltier Leonard Peltier Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement . In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine... |
89637-132 | Incarcerated at Marion June 1, 1977–1985 | Native American Native Americans in the United States Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as... activist convicted of murdering two FBI agents |
| Kirksey Nix Kirksey Nix Kirksey McCord Nix, Jr. is reputedly the former leader of the Dixie Mafia.He was a suspect in the assassination attempt on Sheriff Buford Pusser and in the death of Buford's wife on August 12, 1967.... |
20921-077 | In USP, Marion | |
| Jonathan Pollard Jonathan Pollard Jonathan Jay Pollard worked as a civilian intelligence analyst before being convicted of spying for Israel. He received a life sentence in 1987.... |
incarcerated 1986-1993, then transferred to FCI Butner | Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... i spy |
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| Pete Rose Pete Rose Peter Edward Rose , nicknamed "Charlie Hustle", is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. Rose played from 1963 to 1986, and managed from 1984 to 1989.... |
01832-061 | athlete charged with filing false income tax Income tax An income tax is a tax levied on the income of individuals or businesses . Various income tax systems exist, with varying degrees of tax incidence. Income taxation can be progressive, proportional, or regressive. When the tax is levied on the income of companies, it is often called a corporate... returns (incarcerated from August 8, 1990, through January 7, 1991) |
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| Nicodemo Scarfo Nicodemo Scarfo Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Domenico Scarfo is a member of the American Mafia who eventually became the Boss of the Philadelphia crime family after the death of Angelo Bruno and Phil Testa... |
transferred to United States Penitentiary United States Penitentiary, Atlanta United States Penitentiary, Atlanta is a medium-security federal prison for men in Atlanta, Georgia. It also has a detention center for pre-trial and holdover inmates and an adjacent camp for minimum security male inmates... in Atlanta, Georgia. |
former Philadelphia crime boss | |
| Richard Scutari (1947-) | Currently held in United States Penitentiary Marion - Communication Management Unit Communication Management Unit Communication Management Unit is a recent designation for a self-contained group within a facility in the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons that severely restricts, manages and monitors all outside communication of inmates in the unit.-Origins:As part of the Bush Administration's War on... . |
former leading member of terrorist group the Order The Order (group) The Order, also known as the Brüder Schweigen or Silent Brotherhood, was an organization active in the United States between 1983 and 1984... . |
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| Thomas Silverstein Thomas Silverstein Thomas Silverstein is a convicted American murderer. He has been in prison for armed robbery and has been convicted of four separate murders while imprisoned, one of which was overturned. He has been in solitary confinement since 1983, when he killed prison guard Merle Clutts at the Marion... |
14634-116 | Moved to ADMAX | murderer and Aryan Brotherhood Aryan Brotherhood The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as The Brand, the AB, or the One-Two, is a white supremacist prison gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States with about 20,000 members in and out of prison... leader |
| Garrett Brock Trapnell Garrett Brock Trapnell Garrett Brock Trapnell was a con man, bank robber, and aircraft hijacker of the 1960s and early 1970s. Trapnell initiated a string of bank robberies across the United States and Canada that netted him in excess of $1,000,000 over time... (1938–1993) |
skyjacker, bank robber, and con man | ||
| Manuel Noriega Manuel Noriega Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno is a Panamanian politician and soldier. He was military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989.The 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States removed him from power; he was captured, detained as a prisoner of war, and flown to the United States. Noriega was tried on... |
former Panamanian general and dictator | ||
| Russell Dan Smith | Founder, Just Detention International | ||
| John Anthony Walker John Anthony Walker John Anthony Walker, Jr. is a former United States Navy Chief Warrant Officer and communications specialist convicted of spying for the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1985, at the height of the Cold War... |
Soviet spy | ||