List of former inmates at ADX Florence: Difference between revisions

Inmate name Register number Photo Status Details Salvatore Gravano Unlisted Placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program in return for turning government witness in 1991; served a 19-year sentence in an Arizona prison after being convicted on state narcotics charges.^[43] Released early in September 2017; was scheduled for release in March 2019. Former underboss of the Gambino Crime Family; turned government witness and testified against boss John Gotti.^[44] Vincent Basciano 30694-054 Transferred to USP Coleman. Serving two consecutive life sentences.^[45] Former boss of the Bonanno Crime Family in 2004 after Boss Joseph Massino was arrested; convicted in 2006 of murder, conspiracy and racketeering; convicted in 2011 of ordering the 2004 murder of Bonanno associate Randolph Pizzolo.^[46][47] Thomas Silverstein 14634-116 Archived September 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Deceased. Died due to complications from heart surgery on May 11, 2019, while serving a life sentence. Aryan Brotherhood prison gang leader (considered one of the most dangerous inmates in the federal prison system); transferred to ADX after murdering Correction Officer Merle Clutts at USP Marion in 1983 while serving a sentence for bank robbery. The murder of two correctional officers in 1983 was the impetus for creating the “super-max” prison classification.^[48] One of the only prisoners publicly known to be incarcerated in Range 13. Juan García Ábrego 09935-000 Transferred to USP Hazelton. Serving a life sentence. Mexican former drug lord who is reported to be the former head of a criminal dynasty along the Mexico–United States border now called the Gulf Cartel. James Sweeney 58827=066 Transferred to USP Victorville. Serving a life sentence. Leader of Maryland prison gang Dead Man Incorporated, convicted of conspiracy to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise and conspiracy to distribute drugs and sentenced to life imprisonment.^[49] Howard Mason 24651-053 Transferred to USP Allenwood. Serving a life sentence. Convicted in 1989 of racketeering charges in connection with his leadership of “The Bebos,” a violent drug gang in Queens, New York; ordered the 1988 murder of New York City Police Officer Edward Byrne.^[50] Transferred to USP Allenwood in 2015. Barry Mills 14559-116 Archived February 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Deceased. Died on July 8, 2018, while serving four consecutive life sentences. Aryan Brotherhood prison gang founder; along with Tyler Bingham, 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 African-American inmates at USP Lewisburg in Pennsylvania.^[51][52] Tex Hernandez 02536-748 Transferred to USP Florence High. Serving a life sentence. Leader of the Nuestra Familia, convicted of racketeering for controlling the gang from the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison; found guilty due to Operation Black Widow, a federal investigation.^[53] Joseph Lombardo 89305-024 Deceased. Died on October 19, 2019, while serving a life sentence.^[54] Consigliere of the Chicago Outfit. On September 10, 2007, Lombardo was convicted of racketeering, extortion, loan sharking and murder.^[55] On September 27, 2007, the same jury found Lombardo guilty of the 1974 Seifert murder. In 2009, Lombardo, seated in a wheelchair, was sentenced to life in prison for the convictions.^[56][57] Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera 37459-053 Transferred to United States Penitentiary, Lee. Serving a life sentence. Colombian assassin for the Medellin Cartel known as “La Quica”. Convicted for a placing a bomb on Avianca Flight 203 and blowing it up over Bogota which killed 107 people. This was considered one of the biggest drug-related terrorism cases in US history. Salvador Magluta 26012-037 Transferred to United States Penitentiary, Allenwood. Serving a 195-year sentence. Leader of a drug trafficking network in Miami that transported over 75 tons of cocaine into the United States. Convicted in 2002 of money laundering and conspiracy charges.^[58] Anthony Casso 16802-050 Deceased. Transferred to the Terre Haute USP; died on December 15, 2020, while serving 13 consecutive life sentences plus 455 years.^[59] Former underboss of the Lucchese Crime Family; apprehended in 1993 after 30 months on the run; subsequently pleaded guilty to murder, murder conspiracy and racketeering. Placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program, but was subsequently removed from the program due to multiple violations of program rules.^[60] Nicodemo Scarfo 09813-050 Deceased. Transferred to the FCI Butner Medium, a medium-security facility; was serving a 55-year sentence, scheduled for release in 2033 but died on 17 January 2017 at age 87.^[61][62][63] Former boss of the Bruno Crime Family in Philadelphia;^[64] he was convicted on multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, distribution of methamphetamine, and extortion.^[65] Joel Cacace 25136-077 Transferred to USP Beaumont, then to FCI Tucson and finally to FCI Ashland. Released on May 22, 2020, after serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence. Consigliere of the Colombo crime family, pled guilty to racketeering, extortion, illegal gambling, and participating in four murders in 2004.^[66] Alpo Martinez Unlisted Deceased. Released in 2015 after serving 25 out of 35 years of his sentence. Died on October 31, 2021. Former Harlem drug lord, convicted of 14 counts of murder, including the murder of his close friend and business partner Rich Porter. Facing the possibility of either the death penalty or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, he testified against members of his drug organization. He was portrayed by rapper and actor Cam’ron in the 2002 film Paid In Full which was based on the criminal exploits of Martinez, Azie Faison and Rich Porter.^[67][68] Clayton Fountain 89129-132 Deceased. Died in 2004 while serving a life sentence. Aryan Brotherhood member who was serving a life sentence for murdering his staff sergeant while serving in the Marines. While imprisoned at USP Marion, he stabbed Correctional Officer Robert L. Hoffman to death on October 22, 1983. Fellow Aryan Brotherhood member Thomas Silverstein stabbed another correction officer, Merle Clutts, to death at USP Marion on the same day. Osiel Cárdenas Guillén 62604-079 Archived 2019-07-02 at the Wayback Machine Transferred to USP Florence High, then to USP Lewisburg and finally to USP Terre Haute. Served a 25-year sentence; Released on August 30, 2024. Now at Federal Readaptation Prison No.1 at Mexico. Succeeded Juan García Ábrego as leader of the Gulf Cartel; extradited to the U.S. from Mexico in 2007 and pleaded guilty to threatening to murder U.S. law enforcement agents, drug trafficking and money laundering.^[69][70] James Morado 02846-748 Deceased. Died in 2021 while serving a life sentence. Leader of the Nuestra Familia prison gang, arrested as part of Operation Black Widow in 2001 due to leading the gang from Pelican Bay State Prison.^[53] John McCullah 03040-063 Currently at USP Tucson; serving a life sentence. Aryan Brotherhood prison gang member; fatally assaulted another inmate at the Federal Correctional Complex, Coleman in Florida in 2005 while serving multiple life sentences for other murders; Erin Sharma, a Correction Officer at the facility, was also sentenced to life in prison in connection with the assault.^[71] Kenneth McGriff 26301-053 Transferred to the United States Penitentiary McCreary. Serving a life sentence. Founder of the “Supreme Team,” a violent gang which sold crack cocaine in Queens, NY. Convicted in 2007 of murder, racketeering, and drug trafficking.^[72] Vito Rizzuto 04307-748 Deceased.

Released and deported to Canada on October 5, 2012, after serving about five years of a ten-year sentence; died on December 23, 2013, of natural causes.

Rizzuto was the boss of the Italian-Canadian Rizzuto crime family, based in Montreal. In early 2004, Rizzuto was indicted by a Brooklyn federal grand jury in relation to racketeering conspiracy charges, including loansharking and murder, in connection with the May 5, 1981, gangland killings of three rival Bonanno crime family capos, Philip Giaccone, Dominick Trinchera and Alphonse Indelicato, made famous by the Hollywood movie Donnie Brasco. Rizzuto was one of four men hired by former Bonanno crime family captain Joe Massino to kill the three other capos. On August 17, 2006, after a legal battle of 31 months, he was extradited to the United States, and appeared before a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn. It was then, on May 4, 2007, Rizzuto pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder as well as racketeering charges, admitting that he was present at the triple murder in 1981, but stated he had only yelled “it’s a holdup”, while others did the shooting; he received a 10-year prison sentence and was fined $250,000, to be followed by a three-year supervised release as part of the plea bargain. Juan Matta-Ballesteros 37671-133 Archived February 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Transferred to MCFP Springfield. Serving 12 consecutive life sentences under the name Juan Ramon Matta-Lopez. Drug trafficker convicted of involvement in the 1985 kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique Camarena.^[73] José Antonio Hernández 92043-280 Transferred to USP Coleman II. Sentenced to life imprisonment. One of several known leaders of the La Línea gang. Larry Hoover 86063-024 Transferred to Dixon Correctional Center, a state prison in Dixon, Illinois

Serving a life sentence

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.^[74][75]

Hoover was sentenced to six federal life sentences in 1997 and subsequently transferred to ADX.
On May 28, 2025, Hoover’s federal life sentences were commuted by President Donald Trump^[76]