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]
Serving a life sentence. Was transferred to Atlanta after trying to escape a third time by hanging onto a laundry truck, but was caught before the truck got to the front gate. Currently at USP Allenwood.
Bank robber and former FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive; kidnapped bank teller Amy Shaw and her family, then escaped from prison twice before he could be sentenced for his crimes.[2][3]
Bank robbery team known as the Holden-Keating Gang who stole millions of dollars in cash and securities from banks in the 1920s and 1930s; escaped from USP Leavenworth in 1930; apprehended and returned to USP Leavenworth in 1932.[4]
Rap-artist known as Da' Unda' Dogg and former member of the Romper Room Crew, a criminal gang in Vallejo, California; Reddick and other gang members were convicted of bank robbery in 1992.[5]
In 1945, Duquesne was transferred to the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, due to his failing physical and mental health.[6] In 1954, he was released owing to ill health, having served 14 years.[7]
Convicted in 1941 of leading the Duquesne Spy Ring, a group of spies for the Nazis which operated in the US from 1939 to 1941 and aimed to obtain information regarding military and industrial sabotage targets; all ring members were convicted in what was the largest espionage case in US history.[8]
Lang received a sentence of 18 years in prison. He was deported to Germany in September 1950.[9]
A member of the Duquesne Spy Ring, Lang was convicted in 1941 on espionage charges and a two-year concurrent sentence under the Registration Act. Before his arrest, Lang had provided the German Abwehr highly confidential materials essential to the national defense of the United States including the top secret Norden bombsight.[6]
Released from custody in 1927 after serving 2 years.
Appointed by President Warren G. Harding, Forbes was the first director of the Veterans' Bureau; convicted of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government in 1923. Forbes was a cellmate of Frederick Cook.[10]
Died at USP Leavenworth in 1957 while serving a 10-year sentence.
Prohibition era gangster; battled Al Capone for the control of Chicago's criminal underworld; convicted of bank robbery in 1957; also known as "Bugs."[19]
Serving a 25-year sentence; scheduled for release 2032. Currently at FCI Mendota.
Colombian Drug Lord; known as "Rasguño", member of the Norte Del Valle Cartel. On October 18, 2008, Gomez pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in a Washington court. He also admitted sending over 500,000 kilograms of cocaine to America through Mexico between 1990 and 2004 as well as conspiracy to make and distribute more than 10,000 kilograms of cocaine destined for the US.[20]
Deceased; fatally stabbed at USP Leavenworth in 1986 while serving a life sentence.
Leader of the "69 Mob" gang, which sold millions of dollars worth of heroin throughout California in the early 1980s and protected its turf through violence; convicted in 1985 of murder, murder conspiracy and drug traffickingconspiracy; Mitchell is credited with creating the country's first large-scale, gang-controlled drug operation.[23]
Released from custody in 2009 after serving ten years.
Leader of the Latin Kings gang in New York and New Jersey from 1996 to 1999; pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine; also known as "King Tone."[24]
Went to prison in 1977. Died due to complications from heart surgery in May 2019.
Prison authorities describe him as a brutal killer and a former leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. He had been incarcerated continuously from 1977 till 2019 and has been convicted of four separate murders while imprisoned, one of which was overturned[25]
Released in 1945 after serving 18 months of a 4-year sentence.
Founding member of the Fair Play Committee at Heart Mountain concentration camp for Japanese Americans evicted from the West Coast during World War II; Emi and six other FPC leaders were convicted of conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act after protesting the incarceration and encouraging internees to resist the draft unless they and their families were released from camp. The charges were eventually overturned by a Federal Appeals court.[27]
Leader of the Communist Party USA from 1959 until his death in 2000; Hall and 11 party leaders were tried under the Smith Act, which was used to charge and incarcerate perceived enemies of the US government; Hall was convicted in 1948 and sentenced to five years in prison. Hall was subsequently sentenced to an extra three years for jumping bail.[29]
Serving a life sentence for his supporting role in tax protester related shootings. He was transferred to the maximum security prison at USP Terre Haute, Indiana when USP Leavenworth was downgraded to medium security. Currently at FCI Pekin.
Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar; confessed to 22 murders; executed for the murder of Institution Laundry Foreman Robert G. Warnke, which Panzram committed while serving a 25-year sentence at USP Leavenworth.[42]
Held at USP Leavenworth from 1912 to 1942; transferred to the federal prison on Alcatraz Island in 1942.
Convicted of manslaughter in 1909 and murdering a correction officer in 1916; raised and studied birds in his cell at USP Leavenworth and became a leading ornithologist; wrote two books and made significant contributions to the field of ornithology.
Pleaded guilty along with Robert Lee Willie in 1980 to kidnapping a young couple in Louisiana, repeatedly raping the female victim. The two were also convicted of an unrelated state murder charge. Vaccaro was sentenced to life in prison and Willie was executed in 1984.
Raped and murdered 6-year-old Yumiko Nagayama in Kadena, Okinawa, in a crime which became known as the Yumiko-chan incident. Hurt was initially sentenced to death, but this was commuted to 45 years in prison without parole. He was paroled in 1977, after another commutation made him eligible for parole.
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