This is a list of notable inmates held at ADX Florence.
This list contains foreign citizens who committed or attempted to commit terrorist attacks against United States citizens and interests. All sentences are without parole.
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51427-054 | France | Serving six consecutive life sentences. | French citizen and Al-Qaeda operative, pleaded guilty to terrorism conspiracy charges in 2005 for playing a key role in planning the September 11 attacks by helping the hijackers obtain flight lessons, money and material used in the attacks.[1] | |||
03911-000 | Kuwait | Serving a life sentence plus 240 years. | Convicted in 1994 of terrorism conspiracy and other charges in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Yousef was also convicted in 1996 of planning Project Bojinka, a foiled plot conceived by senior Al-Qaeda member Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to assassinate Pope John Paul II and bomb twelve planes in a 48-hour period.[2] | |||
67495-054 | Egypt | Serving a life sentence under the name Mostafa Kamel Mostafa. | Egyptian cleric and former associate of the late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden; extradited from the UK in 2012; convicted in 2014 of masterminding the 1998 kidnapping of Westerners in Yemen and conspiring to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon in 1999.[3] | |||
24079-038 | Serving three consecutive life sentences plus 110 years. | British national who became an Al-Qaeda operative; pleaded guilty in 2002 to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in connection with his 2001 attempt to detonate explosive devices hidden in his shoes on a Boeing 767 traveling from Paris to Miami; known as the "Shoe Bomber".[4] | ||||
44107-039 | Nigeria | Serving four consecutive life sentences plus 50 years. | A Nigerian national and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operative, follower of the late militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki; pleaded guilty in 2011 to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction for trying to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. He was nicknamed the "Underwear Bomber" as the bomb was sewn into his underwear.[5] | |||
29638-086 | Algeria | Serving a 37-year sentence; scheduled for release on July 1, 2032.[6] | Algerian national convicted in 2001 of terrorism conspiracy for planning to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on December 31, 1999, in what is known as one of the 2000 millennium attack plots.[7] [8] | |||
27896-016 | Colombia | Serving a 60-year sentence under the name Juvenal Ovidio Palmera Pineda; scheduled for release on February 17, 2055. | Member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a guerrilla group on the U.S. State Department list of Terrorist Organizations; convicted in 2007 of terrorism conspiracy for his involvement in the 2003 kidnapping of three American military contractors.[9] [10] [11] | |||
91969-054 | Kuwait | Serving a life sentence. | Al-Qaeda spokesman and son-in-law to Osama bin Laden. Convicted in March 2014 for conspiring to kill Americans and providing material support to terrorists.[12] | |||
42426-054 | Sudan | Serving a life sentence. | Al-Qaeda co-founder and advisor to Osama bin Laden. Extradited in 1998 for participating in the U.S. Embassy bombings and sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder during an escape attempt in 2000.[13] | |||
28064-054 | Egypt | Serving a 78-year and four-month sentence (sentence shortened by 30 years from 108 years and four months, which was shortened from an initial 240-year sentence); scheduled for release on March 8, 2060. | Egyptian terrorist who was one of the men convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In 1988 he traveled to Afghanistan to receive combat training. He also assisted El Sayyid Nosair in the assassination of far-right rabbi Meir Kahane, acting as the getaway driver.[14] | |||
06909-091 | Canada | Serving a life sentence. | Canadian citizen convicted of plotting to bomb U.S. embassies in Singapore and the Philippines, he was turned over to U.S. authorities after agreeing to assist them with terror investigations. He was sentenced to life in federal prison in 2008 as a result of violating the terms of his release.[15] | |||
55707-039 | Canada Tunisia | Serving a life sentence. | Perpetrator of the Bishop International Airport attack in Flint, Michigan in 2017, during which he stabbed an Airport Police Lieutenant in the neck; convicted in 2018 of committing an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries.[16] | |||
75868-054 | Canada | Serving a 40-year sentence; scheduled for release on June 7, 2051. | Plotted to carry out bombing attacks at Times Square and on the New York City Subway. Convicted of material support and conspiracy to commit terror acts transcending national boundaries in 2016 and sentenced to 40 years in federal prison in 2018.[17] El Bahnasawy was sent to ADX after he committed the stabbing of corrections officer Dale Franquet Jr at United States Penitentiary, Allenwood on December 7, 2020. Franquet lost an eye in the attack.[18] | |||
79827-054 | Bangladesh | Serving a life sentence plus 30 years. | Bangladeshi national who partially detonated a pipe bomb between the Times Square–42nd Street and 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal stations of the New York City Subway. The blast injured three bystanders and the perpetrator. Ullah was convicted of possessing a criminal weapon, making terroristic threats and supporting an act of terrorism in 2018 and sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years in 2021.[19] [20] | |||
33405-016 | Libya | Serving a 22-year sentence; scheduled for release on April 10, 2033. | Libyan national and leader of Ansar al-Sharia, led the Benghazi attacks against two United States government facilities in September 2012. Ansar al-Sharia members attacked a diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012, that resulted in the deaths of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith. Additionally, a mortar attack was carried out against a CIA annex that resulted in the death of two more U.S. diplomats. Abu Khatalla was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism, maliciously destroying and injuring dwellings and property as well as using and carrying a semi-automatic weapon during a crime of violence. Another participant in the attack, Mustafa Al-Imam was also charged and convicted of offences related to the attack and was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2020.[21] [22] [23] | |||
84991-083 | Russia | Serving a life sentence plus 30 years. | A former member of the Russian army, Hamidullin eventually traveled to Afghanistan where he was discovered fighting for the Taliban after he led insurgents to attack Camp Leyza, a military installation where U.S. and Afghan forces were stationed. Hamidullin was held in extrajudicial detention before being tried in federal court where he was convicted on 15 counts including material support, attempted murder of U.S. military personnel, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and possession of a firearm in connection with a crime of violence.[24] [25] | |||
81678-053 | Niger | Serving a life sentence under the name Adnan Ibrahi Harun A. Hausa. | Al-Qaeda operative from Niger who was convicted of conspiracy to murder American military personnel in Afghanistan, conspiracy to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, and providing material support to terror organization. Harun was recruited into Al-Qaeda in the weeks before the September 11 attacks and travelled to Afghanistan to train Al-Qaeda camps. Harun was one of several Al-Qaeda soldiers to ambush a U.S. Military patrol on April 25, 2003, killing servicemen Jerod Dennis and Raymond Losano. Harun was also ordered to commit a bombing attack against the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria by Al-Qaeda leaders. Harun was sentenced to life in prison in February 2018.[26] [27] | |||
11685-509 11698-509 | United Kingdom Sudan | Serving eight concurrent life sentences each. | Former British citizens and members of the 'ISIS Beatles' known as "Jihadi George" and "Jihadi Ringo" respectively, sentenced to eight concurrent life terms without the possibility of parole in April and August 2022 for charges of conspiracy to commit murder, lethal hostage taking, and material support. These charges stemmed from participating in the beheadings of American, British, and Japanese citizens while an active member of the Islamic State.[28] [29] Kotey and Elsheikh directly participated in the negotiations and killings of James Foley, Peter Kassig, Steven Sotloff, and Kayla Mueller.[30] [31] | |||
79715-054 | Uzbekistan | Serving ten concurrent life sentences plus 260 years. | Uzbek national who perpetrated of the 2017 New York City truck attack, in which he drove a pickup truck rented from Home Depot and drove it through the protected bike lane of Hudson River Park in Manhattan, killing eight people and injuring eleven others. The incident was considered the deadliest terrorist attack in New York City since the September 11 attacks of 2001. Saipov committed the attack in the name of Islamic State. The death penalty was sought for Saipov; however, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in May 2023, after a jury failed to reach a unanimous decision on the matter.[32] [33] |
This list contains U.S. citizens, regardless of origin, who committed or attempted to commit terrorist attacks against United States citizens and interests.
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95079-038 | Originally sentenced to death on June 24, 2015. Sentence overturned by a federal appeals court on July 31, 2020,[34] but re-imposed by Supreme Court on March 4, 2022.[35] | Dzhokhar, along with his older brother Tamerlan planted a pressure cooker bomb at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring over 250. Tamerlan died of injuries sustained in brothers' shootout with police 82 hours later. Dzhokhar escaped, but was found and arrested later that day. He was sentenced to death. He was to be transferred to USP Terre Haute in Indiana when his execution date was set, but the death sentence was vacated in July 2020 due to inadequate screening for potential biases among jury pool. The death sentence was re-imposed by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 2022. | |||||||
42393-054 | Serving a life sentence. | Convicted in connection with the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, Africa, which were conceived by Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden; the bombings killed 224 people and injured more than 4,000.[36] [37] [38] [39] | |||||||
08157-031 | Serving 161 consecutive life sentences. | Conspirator in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which killed 168 people. Timothy McVeigh, who planned and carried out the bombing, was executed in 2001.[40] [41] | |||||||
20796-424 | Serving a 21-year sentence; scheduled for release on September 19, 2026.[42] [43] | Al-Qaeda operative and one of the first U.S. citizens to be designated as an enemy combatant after the September 11 attacks; convicted in 2007 of terrorism conspiracy for traveling overseas to attend an Al-Qaeda training camp and providing material support to terrorists.[44] [45] | |||||||
18282-058 | Serving four consecutive life sentences. | Member of the Christian extremist group Army of God; pleaded guilty in 2005 to carrying out four bombings between 1996 and 1998, including the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta; he killed three people during the bombing spree.[46] [47] | |||||||
63510-054 | Serving a life sentence. | Tehrik-i-Taliban operative; pleaded guilty to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and other charges in connection with the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt; received explosives training in 2009 from the terrorist organization Tehrik-i-Taliban in Pakistan.[48] [49] | |||||||
80882-280 | Serving two consecutive life sentences plus 60 years. | U.S. Army private who refused to deploy to Afghanistan and went AWOL; convicted in 2012 of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction for plotting to detonate a bomb in 2011 at a restaurant near Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, when it was filled with soldiers.[50] [51] | |||||||
85795-053 | Serving a 45-year sentence; scheduled for release on August 5, 2053. | Houston man who was convicted of terrorism-related charges in 2017 after he attended an Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. He was charged with material support of terrorism for a planning role in a 2009 attack on Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost. He had reportedly been radicalized by Zarein Ahmedzay, one of the men charged with the 2009 New York City Subway bombing plot. | |||||||
78312-054 | Serving two consecutive life sentences. | American-Afghan man from Elizabeth, New Jersey, who was convicted in U.S. District Court and New Jersey state court for use of weapons of mass destruction, bombing a place of public use, attempted murder of law enforcement officers and various other charges. On September 17, 2016, Rahimi planted and detonated explosives in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York, that injured 35 people. Another explosive was discovered in a backpack in Elizabeth, New Jersey, two days later. After Linden police attempted to apprehend Rahimi, he engaged in a shootout with members of police and shot an officer in the abdomen. Additionally, as a pre-trial detainee at Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York, he was accused of distributing terrorist propaganda and bomb-making instructions to inmates alongside fellow would-be terrorist, Sajmir Alimehmeti. Rahimi was sentenced to life in prison in 2018.[52] [53] [54] | |||||||
20658-052 | Serving a 30-year sentence; scheduled for release on January 9, 2038. | Former U.S. Navy seaman, Ku Klux Klan member and resident of Galway, New York. In 2015, he was the first U.S. citizen ever convicted of attempting to acquire a radiological weapon. Crawford and a co-defendant attempted to construct a radiation dispersal device to be used outside of Mosques, Islamic schools, and to kill former President Barack Obama.[55] [56] | |||||||
11843-509 11796-509 | Adam Fox is serving a 16-year sentence; scheduled for release on May 26, 2034.Barry Croft is serving a 19-year and 7-month sentence; scheduled for release on June 15, 2037. | Adam Fox of Wyoming, Michigan, and Barry Croft of Bear, Delaware, masterminded the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot. Fox and Croft were affiliated with far-right militia groups and the Boogaloo movement. In late 2022, both men were convicted of kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction for plotting to kidnapping Whitmer and to eventually violently overthrow the state government. Croft was also convicted possessing an unregistered destructive device.[57] [58] |
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95518-022 | Serving a 32-year sentence; scheduled for release on February 1, 2032. | Former engineer for the U.S. Department of Defense and one of the principal designers of the B-2 stealth bomber; convicted in 2011 of using classified information to assist the People's Republic of China in producing cruise missiles with stealth technology.[59] | |||||||
05852-509 | Serving a 15-year and eight-month sentence; scheduled for release on December 28, 2033. | Former United States Army Special Forces officer; convicted in 2021 of conspiring to provide Russian intelligence operatives with U.S. national defense information. Between 1996 and 2011, Debbins periodically travelled to Russia and supplied intelligence agents with the information.[60] [61] |
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99076-012 | Serving a life sentence. | "Front Boss" of the Chicago Outfit; convicted of racketeering, conspiracy for participating in 18 murders, and directing criminal activities including extortion, illegal gambling, loan sharking, and bribery.[62] [63] | |||||||
14067-074 | Serving a life sentence plus 45 years. | Leader of the New York chapter of the Latin Kings gang; convicted in 1996 of murder conspiracy and racketeering for running a criminal enterprise whose members engage in murder, assault, armed robbery, and drug trafficking; Felipe is known as "King Blood".[64] [65] | |||||||
03325-091 | Serving a life sentence. | Aryan Brotherhood prison gang founder; was transferred to ADX in 2006 after being connected to violent gang activities in prison; convicted of murder, murder conspiracy, and racketeering for ordering the killing of two inmates at USP Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.[66] [67] | |||||||
86063-024 | Serving six consecutive life sentences. | Leader of the Gangster Disciples in Chicago; sentenced to life in state prison in 1973 for murder; convicted in 1997 of drug conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, and running a continuing criminal enterprise for leading the gang from state prison.[68] [69] | |||||||
92298-024 | Serving a 68-year sentence; scheduled for release on October 14, 2044. | Founder of the El-Rukn (Black P. Stones) gang in Chicago; convicted of drug trafficking in 1983; convicted of terrorism conspiracy in 1987 for plotting to commit attacks inside the U.S. in exchange for weapons and $2.5 million from Libya.[70] [71] | |||||||
02552-74802837-748 | Serving life sentences. | Leaders of the Nuestra Familia gang, which engages in drug trafficking, extortion and murder inside and outside of prisons in California; arrested as part of Operation Black Widow in 2001; pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in 2004.[72] | |||||||
30063-037 | Serving a 50-year sentence; scheduled for release on May 23, 2044. | Founder of the United Blood Nation gang and also known as "O.G. Mack"; convicted in 2002 of racketeering and murder conspiracy, as well as narcotics and weapons charges.[73] | |||||||
58232-066 | Sentenced to death on June 3, 2013; awaiting execution.[74] | Philadelphia drug kingpin; convicted in 2013 of 12 counts of murder in aid of racketeering for ordering six drug-related homicides, as well as fire bombing the home of a federal witness, which killed two adults and four children.[75] [76] He will be transferred to United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute in Indiana when an execution date is set. | |||||||
78527-053 | Serving 12 consecutive life sentences plus 105 years.[77] | One-time Brooklyn rapper, Ronald Herron AKA Ra Diggs was tried and convicted in 2014 for 21 counts, including three murders, racketeering and drug trafficking in connection to running a violent drug gang in New York City. | |||||||
89914-053 | Serving a life sentence plus 30 years. | Former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán was extradited from Mexico to the United States in January 2017, where he pleaded not guilty to all counts in Brooklyn, New York.[78] His charges included drug trafficking, money laundering, and murder. His defense asserted that he was not the organized crime leader that the prosecution claimed. The trial, often characterized as a trial of the century, began on November 5, 2018, and lasted until February 12, 2019, when the jury found him guilty of all counts. He was sentenced on July 17, 2019, to life imprisonment without parole. | |||||||
58525-007 | Serving a life sentence plus 50 years. | Cousin and former business partner of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Beltran Leyva was the leader of the Beltran-Leyva Organization that operated out of Sinaloa, Mexico. Between the 1990s and 2000s, Beltran Leyva was responsible for the wholesale shipment of cocaine and methamphetamine between the United States, Mexico, and South America. On November 15, 2014, Beltran Leyva was extradited to the United States to face trial for shipping at least 27.9 tons of narcotics into the US. On February 23, 2016, Beltran Leyva pled guilty to charges of international narcotics trafficking conspiracy and was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 50 years in 2017. Beltran Leyva was also ordered to forfeit US$529 million in profits made from his organization.[79] [80] | |||||||
33580-058 | Serving a 20-year sentence, scheduled for release on October 16, 2034. | Leader of the Nine Trey Gangsters Bloods gang in New York, convicted of racketeering conspiracy charges for controlling the gang from various New York state prisons.[81] | |||||||
12874-058 | Serving a life sentence. | Peter Rollock also known as "Pistol Pete" was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2000 for six murders he committed while operating the Sex Money Murda (S.M.M.) street gang in the Bronx, New York. The S.M.M. gang became one of the largest street gangs involved in drug-trafficking in the New York area during the mid-1990s.[82] [83] | |||||||
53975-037 | Serving a life sentence. | One of the founders of the Dead Man Incorporated prison gang. In 2013, Roark pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy, murder and trafficking charges related to running the gang alongside members Bryan Jordan and James Sweeney. Roark and Sweeney were subsequently sentenced to life in prison.[84] | |||||||
99420-509 | Serving a 45-year sentence; scheduled for release on February 27, 2060. | Former leader of the Golf Clan, he was one of the most wanted drug lords in Colombia before he was captured on October 23, 2021, and later extradited to the United States in May 2022. He was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years in prison, in addition to being fined $216 million. US Attorney General Merrick Garland said Úsuga "ordered the reckless execution of Colombian police officers, soldiers, and civilians" during his time as leader of the Golf Clan.[85] [86] [87] | |||||||
05244-748 | Serving a life sentence. | Former mafia hitman for the Genovese crime family who operated out of Springfield, Massachusetts. In 2011, Geas was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of Gary Westerman and Adolfo Bruno, hits that were carried out on the orders of the Genovese family. In 2022, Geas was indicted for the murder of James "Whitey" Bulger, former leader of the Winter Hill Gang. Bulger was severely beaten in the early morning hours of October 30, 2018, at United States Penitentiary, Hazleton.[88] [89] |
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04287-748 | Serving a life sentence. | Already jailed for life for killing a gang rival in Arizona, Con-ui was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of corrections officer Eric Williams at United States Penitentiary, Canaan.[90] | |||||||
Donald Fell | 05306-010 | Serving a life sentence. | Former federal death row inmate convicted of the 2000 kidnapping and murder of Teresca King, a Vermont woman killed in New York. The kidnapping and murder of King took place while Fell and an accomplice fled a double homicide in Vermont, where they killed Fell's mother, Debra Fell, and her friend Charles Conway. In 2018, Fell was re-sentenced to life imprisonment after it was revealed that juror misconduct had taken place during his 2005 trial.[91] [92] | ||||||
17911-054 | Serving a 135-year sentence, scheduled for release on July 13, 2119. | Founder and leader of the Nuwaubian Nation, a black supremacist cult. Convicted in 2004 of child molestation, racketeering and conspiracy, and fraud.[93] [94] | |||||||
16235-050 | Serving a life sentence. | Attorney convicted of conspiracy to murder a witness and racketeering, cocaine, and prostitution offenses.[95] | |||||||
Allen Hurley | 28652-037 | Serving a life sentence. | While serving a 37-year sentence for armed bank robbery at United States Penitentiary, Canaan, he stabbed his cellmate Joseph O’Kane, to death with a homemade prison shank. O'Kane was a member of the Gambino crime family serving a life sentence for murder in aid of racketeering. | ||||||
02071-122 | Serving a 163-year state sentence. | Perpetrator of the 2005 Tacoma Mall shooting. Injured six in the mall before committing four armed kidnappings. Transferred out of ADX for a short period of time, but returned in May 2023. | |||||||
08352-424 | Serving three consecutive life sentences. | Physician and serial killer; pleaded guilty in 2000 to fatally poisoning four patients; has been linked to scores of other deaths.[96] [97] Sent to ADX at his own request due to safety concerns.[98] |