ADX Florence is a supermax federal prison located in Florence, Colorado, United States. It houses some of the most famous and dangerous inmates. While the exact list of inmates in ADX Florence is not publicly available, here we want to share some of the most famous and dangerous inmates in the facility.
A List of Some of the Most Famous and Dangerous Inmates in ADX Florence
Here are they:
1. Terry Lynn Nichols
Nichols is a domestic terrorist and was involved in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. He conspired with Timothy J. McVeigh to carry out the bombing. Ultimately, their bombs killed 168 people, including 19 young children and babies. For what he did, Nichols received 161 consecutive life sentences. While McVeigh, in 2001, was executed by lethal injection at USP Terre Haute.
2. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef
Yousef was the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City. The bombing killed six people and injured thousands of people. After the bombing, Yousef escaped to Pakistan. Aside from that, he was also involved in several other terrorist plots. In 1995, he was eventually arrested.
3. Robert P. Hanssen
Hanssen was a former FBI agent (1976–2001). For over 20 years, he sold thousands of classified documents to the Soviet Union and Russian intelligence. His actions seriously endangered national security and endangered the lives of intelligence assets. At the time Hanssen was caught in 2001, he pocketed at least $1.4 million. Hanssen was finally sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms.
4. Richard Lee McNair
McNair was convicted of murder and burglary. He received two life sentences. He was eventually housed in ADX Florence after his three successful escapes. His first escape was in 1988, while his second and third escapes were in 1992 and 2006. McNair lived on the outside successfully until he was finally arrested in 2007.
5. Ted John Kaczynski
Kaczynski is a domestic terrorist who was involved in the bombing from 1978 to 1995, targeting universities, airlines, and other institutions. In all, he delivered 16 homemade bombs that killed three people and numerous injuries before he was arrested in 1996. Kaczynski was charged with three counts of homicide and ten federal violations related to bombs. He was eventually sentenced to eight lifetimes in prison.
6. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev
Dzhokhar and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev carried out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The bombing resulted in three people killed, and more than 250 people injured. At first, Dzhokha and Tamerlan avoid capture. A few days later they killed Sean Collier, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, to steal his gun. During a subsequent shootout, Tamerlan was shot and killed by police, while Dzhokhar was captured and sentenced to death that was later commuted to life without parole.
7. Michael Swango
Michael Swango was a physician (1980s – 1990s) that used his medical license to poison patients, sometimes his colleagues. When he interned at the Ohio State University Medical Center in 1983, this is where his bad action started. It was reported that Swango has murdered more than 60 people. He often killed his victims by poisoning them with arsenic or intentionally overdosing them with prescribed drugs. In 2000, he was eventually sentenced to life in the prison.
8. Mamdouh Mahmud Salim
The crimes committed by Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, a Sudanese terrorist, are countless. In 1998, he was arrested in Germany due to involvement in the United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Mahmud Salim was sentenced to 32 years in prison. However, he was eventually resentenced to life without parole in 2010 after stabbing a prison guard in a botched escape attempt.
9. Richard C. Reid
In 2001, Reid tried to detonate explosives hidden in his shoes on a transatlantic flight. Fortunately, his plan was thwarted by vigilant crew and passengers. Reid was eventually charged with eight counts of terrorism. He received three life sentences, plus 110 years sans parole.
10. Eric Rudolph
During the 1990s, Rudolph conducted a series of bombings in the United States, including the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta during the 1996 Summer Olympics. The bombing killed one spectator and injured more than 100 others. Rudolph is one of the most wanted criminals by the FBI. In 2003, he was arrested in North Carolina while dumpster diving.
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