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America’s highest-security federal prison, ADX, is home to some of the world's most notorious criminals, including Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo,” shoe bomber Richard Reid, and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Philadelphia drug kingpin; convicted in 2013 of 12 counts of murder in aid of racketeering for ordering six drug-related homicides, as well as fire bombing the home of a federal witness, which killed two adults and four children.
Housing America's most dangerous criminals, it's earned its reputation as the nation's most secure prison. Within its walls, the roster of famous ADX Florence inmates reads like a who's who of infamy – a lineup of men whose notorious deeds have etched their names into the annals of criminal history.
Florence houses male inmates in the federal prison system deemed the most dangerous and in need of the tightest control, including prisoners whose escape would pose a serious threat to national security.
In 2006, Bingham and several others were convicted of murder and racketeering, but federal prosecutors failed in securing the death penalty. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Aryan Brotherhood today is the largest and most deadly prison gang in the United States.
Silverstein spent the last 36 years of his life in solitary confinement for killing corrections officer Merle Clutts at the Marion Penitentiary in Illinois. Prison authorities described him as a brutal killer and a former leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.
He’s joined by some of the world’s most dangerous criminals at the USP Florence ADMAX – known colloquially as the ADX, Supermax or Alcatraz of the Rockies – the highest-security federal...
A list of the 10 most notorious prisons and jails in the US which include ADX in Colorado, Riker's Island, Folsom, and San Quentin.
The ADX in Florence, Colorado, is the one and only federal "Supermax" prison, home to the most dangerous criminals and escape-prone offenders in federal prison.
We found it is one of the most dangerous and violent federal prisons in America. Since 2020, seven prisoners have died violently at Thomson.