United States Penitentiary Marion
The United States Penitentiary Marion is an American prison in Southern Precinct, Williamson County , Illinois, and is medium security. The facility is located near Marion . It was built in 1963 to replace the Alcatraz closed prison in San Francisco .
history
The prison opened in 1963. It was initially the US prison with the highest security standards.
Besides ADX Florence in Colorado it was the only "Supermax" prison, which corresponds to the highest security standard.
In 1975 five prisoners (Maurice Philion, Arthur Mankins, Henry Gargano, Edward Roche and Dennis Hunter) marched through the main door of the prison and escaped. One of the escapes was an electrician who was familiar with repairing the electronic locking mechanisms. He had built a kind of remote control for the doors from a radio and opened them one after the other. All were recaptured.
On May 24, 1978 prisoners Garrett Brock Trapnell, Martin Joseph McNally and James Kenneth Johnson tried to escape in a hijacked helicopter. The kidnapped pilot was able to take the gun from the kidnapper Barbara Oswald (Garrett Brock Trapnell's wife) and shoot her.
On December 21, 1978, 17-year-old Robin Oswald, daughter of Barbara Oswald and Garrett Brock Trapnell, hijacked Trans-World Airlines Flight 541 from Louisville International Airport to Kansas City International Airport . She wanted to free her father from Marion. She gave up after ten hours of negotiations.
On October 22, 1983, two prison officers, Merle E. Clutts and Robert L. Hoffman, were murdered by members of the Aryan Brotherhood . Clutts was stabbed to death by Thomas Silverstein .
In 2006 Marion was downgraded to the medium security level. The structural changes that this made possible increased the maximum number of possible prisoners to over 1,000.
Known current and former inmates
| Surname | Details |
|---|---|
| Nicky Barnes | Harlem drug lord |
| Joseph Bowen | murdered a police officer and two prison guards |
| Christopher John Boyce | soviet spy |
| Frankie Carbo | Murder, Inc. , professional killer |
| Zachary Adam Chesser | was made by the organization al-Shabaab aid |
| James Coonan | former head of the " Westies " gang in Hell's Kitchen |
| William Daddano, Sr. (1912-1975) | Gangster in Chicago outfit |
| Clayton Anthony Fountain (1955-2004) | murdered a supervisor, three inmates, and a guard |
| John Gotti (1940-2002) | Boss of the Gambino family |
| Chevie Kehoe | Murderer and right-wing extremist |
| Carlos Lehder | Co-founder of the Medellín cartel |
| Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino | Mobster and boss of the Philadelphia family |
| Leonard Peltier | Native American activist convicted of the murder of two FBI agents |
| Jonathan Pollard | Israeli spy |
| Nicodemo Scarfo | former boss of the Philadelphia family |
| Thomas Silverstein | Murderer and member of the Aryan Brotherhood |
| Garrett Brock Trapnell (1938-1993) | Hijacker |
| Manuel Noriega | former military ruler of Panama |
| John Anthony Walker | soviet spy |
| Viktor But | Russian arms dealer |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ USP Marion - A medium security US penitentiary with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp. Federal Bureau of Prisons, accessed July 18, 2019 .
- ^ " USP Marion Contact Information ." Federal Bureau of Prisons . Retrieved June 5, 2010.
- ↑ " USP Marion ." Federal Bureau of Prisons . Retrieved on June 5, 2010.
- ^ Control Unit Prisons . University of Massachusetts. Retrieved October 23, 2006.
- ^ Paul W. Keve: Prisons and the American Conscience. SIU Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8093-2003-5 , p. 193 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Fallen Heroes . United States Federal Bureau of Prisons. Archived from the original on October 5, 2006. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 23, 2006.
- ↑ America's Most Dangerous Prisoner? , BBC News. August 10, 2001. Retrieved October 23, 2006.
- ↑ Isolating the Menace In a Sterile Supermax. Washington Post, September 30, 2007, accessed July 18, 2019 .
- ↑ SUPERMAX PRISONS. In: prisonevolutionlq. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Inmate Locator . Federal Bureau of Prisons . Retrieved May 29, 2011.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Locate a Federal Inmate: Thomas Silverstein , Federal Bureau of Prisons . Retrieved November 2, 2010.
Coordinates: 37 ° 39 ′ 47.7 ″ N , 88 ° 59 ′ 5 ″ W.