The Most Dangerous Inmates in the United States
Posted: Wednesday, May 05, 2010
by Carolyn Tytler
They have been convicted of committing evil deeds. They have been captured and confined for the good of society. Thanks to the skill and bravery of court officials and law enforcement officers, they will never again pose a danger to innocent people and families. These are five of the worst offenders who are currently imprisoned in America.
Silverstein has often been described as America's most dangerous prisoner. Now 58 years old, he was first jailed for armed robbery in 1977. While in prison, he killed two inmates and a prison guard. At that time, Silverstein was sentenced to life in prison. After murdering prison guard, Merle Clutts, he was placed on "no human contact" status. He has been kept in total isolation for over twenty-five years. He is presently held in ADX Supermax Penitentiary, Florence, Colorado.
TED KACZYNSKI
The unabomber received his code name because his first targets were universities, (un) and airlines (a). Expressing contempt for the American way of life, Kaczynski dispatched 16 bombs and letter bombs across the United States over a 17-year period. He killed three people and wounded more than 20 others. Although he was a brilliant mathematician, he retreated to a remote cabin in Montana. He was turned in by his brother who recognized his writing style in a manifesto he submitted to the press. The FBI finally captured Kaczynski in 1996. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. He is held in the Federal Supermax prison in Colorado.
TERRY NICHOLS
Because they were angry at the government. Terry Nichols collaborated with Timothy McVeigh in blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. The building was destroyed, 168 people died, and hundreds were injured. Nichols was convicted of 161 counts of first-degree murder, but escaped the death penalty because the jury deciding his sentence was deadlocked. McVeigh was executed. Nichols is serving a life sentence with no hope of parole at the federal prison in Colorado. The pair committed the worst act of domestic terrorism in the United States to date.
RICHARD REID
Richard Reid, known as the shoe bomber, was a British citizen raised in London. While in prison during his youth, he converted to Islam. On December 22, 2001, he boarded an American Airlines plane, Flight 63, from Paris to Miami. He was subdued by the airline crew and other passengers as he was trying to light a fuse connected to a bomb in his shoe. In court, he declared that that he was an enemy of the United States and an ally of Al-Qaeda operatives and Osama Bin Laden. He is presently serving 3 life sentences in ADX Florence, a Supermax prison in Colorado.
RAMZI YOUSEF
Born in 1968 in Kuwait, Yousef studied had engineering. He specialized in inventing new, undetectable types of bombs. His goal was to kill as many Americans as possible. His plots were the most ambitious terrorist conspiracies ever attempted against the United States. He planned to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993, but his plan failed and only 6 victims died. He was arrested in Pakistan in 1995 and returned to the US. In 1997, he was convicted of "seditious conspiracy" and sentenced to life without parole in the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. The September 11, 2001 attack was implemented by using some of the plans Ramzi had made before his imprisonment.
All of these criminals are held in one facility, the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) at Florence, Colorado. It houses the prisoners who are considered to be the most dangerous and in need of the utmost control.
The officials and agencies responsible for tracking, capturing, prosecuting, and detaining these criminals deserve our deepest respect, support and gratitude. If Silverstein, Kaczynski, Nichols, Reid and Yousef were still at large, none of us would be safe.
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