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Duane Earl Pope. 85021-132. Served a life sentence. Was released in 2016. Now serving life sentence at Nebraska State Penitentiary . Bank robber and former FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive; killed three bank employees and wounded a fourth while robbing a Nebraska bank of $1600 in 1965. [ 1]
The United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth[ 2] is a medium-security federal prison for male inmates in northeast Kansas. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. It also includes a satellite federal prison camp (FPC) for minimum-security male offenders.
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot. The New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, which took place on February 2 and 3, 1980, at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM) south of Santa Fe, was the most violent prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates took complete control of the prison and twelve officers were taken hostage.
Before 1835, state inmates were held in a jail in New Orleans. The first Louisiana State Penitentiary, located at the intersection of 6th and Laurel streets in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was modeled on a prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It was built to house 100 convicts in cells of 6 ft × ft (1.8 m × 1.1 m). [ 11]
1,903 (September 2023) Opened. 1902. Managed by. Federal Bureau of Prisons. Federal Penitentiary Atlanta 1920 postcard. The United States Penitentiary, Atlanta ( USP Atlanta) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Atlanta, Georgia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States ...
The United States Penitentiary, Atwater ( USP Atwater) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Merced County, California. [ 1 ] The institution also includes a minimum-security satellite camp. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice .
The Oklahoma State Penitentiary, nicknamed "Big Mac", [ 3] is a prison of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections located in McAlester, Oklahoma, on 1,556 acres (6.30 km 2 ). Opened in 1908 with 50 inmates in makeshift facilities, today the prison holds more than 750 male offenders, [ 1] the vast majority of which are maximum-security inmates.
793 (46 in prison camp) Opened. 1940. Managed by. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury ( FCI Danbury) is a low-security United States federal prison for male and female inmates in Danbury, Connecticut. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.