USP Florence ADMAX

 prison, Federal Correctional Institution (FCI)

The Administrative Maximum (ADX) facility in Florence, Colorado, houses offenders requiring the tightest controls. It is part of the Florence Federal Correctional Complex (FCC). The ADX supervises a minimum security satellite prison camp (outside the secure perimeter of the ADX) that houses male offenders. ADX Florence is the only complete Supermax prison in the United States, although other prisons do exist that have Supermax wings.

Notable current and former inmates:

Timothy McVeigh (deceased) - Oklahoma City bomber (moved to USP Terre Haute in 1999, executed on June 11, 2001)

Kenneth McGriff - Drug trafficker and organized crime figure

H. Rap Brown - Civil rights activist and former Justice Minister of the Black Panther Party, convicted of murdering a Fulton County, Georgia, deputy Sheriff

Thomas Silverstein - Convicted of murdering Federal Correctional Officer Merle E. Clutts

Luis Felipe - Founder of the New York chapter of the Almighty Latin Kings and Queens Nation

Barry Mills - Leading member of the Aryan Brotherhood

Charles Harrelson (deceased) - Texan hitman, convicted of murdering a federal judge, father of actor Woody Harrelson

Jose Padilla - Convicted of aiding terrorists

Michael Swango - American physician and serial killer; convicted of three fatal poisonings.

Mahmud Abouhalima - So-called Mujahideen leader, 1993 World Trade Center bombing implication and conviction

Raul "Sherm" Leon - Mexican Mafia leader

Robert Hanssen - Former senior FBI agent serving life for espionage

Ramzi Yousef - 1993 World Trade Center bombing suspect

Ted Kaczynsk - Known as the Unabomber; pleaded guilty in 1998 to building, transporting, and mailing explosives to carry out 16 bombings from 1978 to 1995 in a mail bombing campaign targeting those involved with modern technology, which killed 3 people and injured 23 others.

ADX Florence is located on State Highway 67, 90 miles south of Denver, 45 miles south
of Colorado Springs, and 40 miles west of Pueblo.
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