Search results
Browse Getty Images' premium collection of high-quality, authentic Adx Florence stock photos, royalty-free images, and pictures. Adx Florence stock photos are available in a variety of sizes and formats to fit your needs.
- Terry L. Nichols
- Robert P. Hanssen
- Ramzi Ahmed Yousef
- Richard Lee Mcnair
- Ted John Kaczynski
- Michael Swango
- Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev
- Larry Hoover
- Mamdouh Mahmud Salim
- Richard C. Reid
Domestic terrorist/Oklahoma City bomber, serving 161 consecutive life sentences Terry L. Nichols met Timothy J. McVeigh while the pair were serving in the U.S. Army in the late ’80s. They both became vehement anti-government conspiracy theorists, studied bomb making together at gun shows and, in 1995, the pair conspired to destroy the Alfred P. Mur...
Soviet spy, serving 15 consecutive life sentences Robert P. Hanssen was an FBI agent for 25 years (1976–2001). During that time, he sold thousands of classified documents to Soviet and Russian intelligence, pocketing at least $1.4 million by the time he was caught in 2001. Hanssen pled guilty to 14 counts of espionage and one of conspiracy to commi...
One of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers; serving life plus 240 years On February 26, 1993, a 1,300-pound nitrate-hydrogen gas bomb was detonated in the parking garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in downtown New York City, killing six people and injuring thousands. Yousef escaped to Pakistan after the attack and wasn’t apprehende...
Master escapist, serving life but could be transferred to state prison This Oklahoma man was convicted of murder, attempted murder, and burglary, for which he received two life sentences, but that’s not what would put him in ADX. It was McNair’s three successful escapes that would land him in semi-permanent solitary confinement. The first was in 19...
Domestic terrorist, aka the “Unabomber,” serving eight life sentences Now 78-year-old Ted Kaczynski grew up in a Chicago suburb and was by all means a brilliant and prophetic student when he was admitted to Harvard University and took part in a three-year ethically questionable psychological studythat some speculate may have attributed to his later...
Serial killer nicknamed “Dr. Death,” serving three consecutive life terms Michael Swango (born Joseph Michael Swango) was a physician who spent most of the 1980s and ’90s using his medical license to poison patients (and, sometimes, colleagues). Despite thoroughly creeping out plenty of people by the time he earned his degree from Southern Illinois...
Terrorist, aka the Boston bomber, life in prison Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, two brothers of Chechen descent, were raised in Kyrgyzstan before immigrating to Cambridge in the 1990s. The brothers were radicalized by al-Qaida and built two pressure-cooker bombs that they planted at the 2013 Boston Marathon; the explosion killed three peo...
Chicago gang leader, serving six life sentences A transplant from Mississippi to Chicago, Larry Hoover got involved in gangs at just 13 years old. He was a member of Supreme Gangsters, which later merged with a rival gang to become the Black Gangster Disciple Nation. Hoover, aka “King Larry,” commissioned the killing of a drug dealer named William ...
Al-Qaida cofounder, serving a life sentence In 1988, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim attended a meeting with Osama bin Laden and a roundtable of others to discuss starting a terrorist organization that became known as al-Qaida. The Sudanese terrorist’s suspected crimes are innumerable, but he was arrested in Germany in 1998 for his role in the U.S. embassy bo...
Shoe Bomber, serving three consecutive life sentences Also an al-Qaida member, British-born Richard Reid is who you can thank for having to take off your shoes everytime you go through TSA. In late 2001, Reid packed his shoes with explosives and boarded an American Airlines flight heading from Paris to Miami; thankfully, the homemade bombs did not ...
- Jerilyn Forsythe
Browse 62 united states penitentiary florence adx photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. The ADX Supermax Prison in Florence, Colorado is a state of the art isolation prison for repeat and high profile felony offenders.
Inside America’s Toughest Federal Prison. 385. At left, the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, otherwise known as the ADX, in Florence, Colo. Jamey Stillings for The New ...
ADX Florence is a 37-acre (15 ha) complex located at 5880 Highway 67, in an unincorporated area, [21] with a Florence, Colorado, postal address. It is located about 100 miles (160 km) south of Denver and 40 miles (64 km) south of Colorado Springs. [22]
Inmate NameRegister NumberCitizenshipStatusServing six consecutive life sentences.Serving a life sentence plus 240 years.Serving a life sentence under the name ...Serving three consecutive life sentences ...- November 1994 (soft opening), January 1995 (full opening)
- Operational
- 337 inmates (October 2023)
Jul 19, 2019 · The U.S.’s highest-security “supermax” prison is ADX Florence, a Colorado facility operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It could be the new home of the Mexican cartel leader El Chapo.
Jan 29, 2020 · Updated on January 29, 2020. US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum, also known as ADX Florence, the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," and "Supermax," is a modern super-maximum security federal prison located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near Florence, Colorado. Opened in 1994, the ADX Supermax facility was designed to incarcerate and ...
