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The United States Penitentiary, Marion (USP Marion) is a large medium-security United States federal prison for male and female inmates in Southern Precinct, [1] unincorporated Williamson County, Illinois. [2] [3] It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
In 1980, Silverstein was convicted of the murder of inmate Danny Atwell, who reportedly refused to serve as a mule for heroin being moved through the prison. He was sentenced to life and transferred to the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois , which was then a high-security facility. [2]
Transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Marion, a medium-security facility in Illinois; serving a 35-year sentence; died on June 30, 2014. Al-Qaeda operative; convicted for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a plot to commit terrorist attacks against the United Nations and New York City landmarks.
Stan Stever became a Christian in 1999 while an inmate at Marion Correctional Institution and been engaged in ministry since that time.
Menard Correctional Center opened in March 1878; it is the second oldest operating prison in Illinois, and, by a large margin, the state's largest prison. Menard once housed death row; however, on January 10, 2003, the Condemned Unit closed when then Governor George Ryan granted clemency to all Illinois death row inmates. [2]
A Clinton County man convicted of a 1993 murder was among them.
William James Charles Brooks, a former detention deputy at the Marion County Jail, tried to commit suicide. The incident report has been released
Although the Supermax facility is gone, the United States Penitentiary, Marion, in 2008 became home to the other known Communication Management Unit in the federal prison system. [10] The inmates are predominantly Arab Muslims, but it once housed Earth Liberation Front prisoner Daniel McGowan , after his involvement in two arsons at logging ...