Bank robber and former FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive; killed three bank employees and wounded a fourth while robbing a Nebraska bank of $1600 in 1965.[1]
Deceased; Holden died in prison in 1953, Keating died in 1978 after being released.
Bank robbery team known as the Holden-Keating Gang who stole millions of dollars in cash and securities from banks in the 1920s and 1930s; escaped from USP Leavenworth in 1930; apprehended and returned to USP Leavenworth in 1932.[2]
Rap-artist known as Da' Unda' Dogg and former member of the Romper Room Crew, a criminal gang in Vallejo, California; Reddick and other gang members were convicted of bank robbery in 1992.[3]
In 1945, Duquesne was transferred to the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, due to his failing physical and mental health.[4] In 1954, he was released owing to ill health, having served 14 years.[5]
Convicted in 1941 of leading the Duquesne Spy Ring, a group of spies for the Nazis which operated in the US from 1939 to 1941 and aimed to obtain information regarding military and industrial sabotage targets; all ring members were convicted in what was the largest espionage case in US history.[6]
Lang received a sentence of 18 years in prison. He was deported to Germany in September 1950.[7]
A member of the Duquesne Spy Ring, Lang was convicted in 1941 on espionage charges and a two-year concurrent sentence under the Registration Act. Before his arrest, Lang had provided the German Abwehr highly confidential materials essential to the national defense of the United States including the top secret Norden bombsight.[4]
Released from custody in July 1944 after serving 3 years.
American inventor and radio broadcaster; convicted in 1937 of mail fraud for claiming on his radio show that he had discovered a miracle cure for cancer and opening clinics where he charged patients to receive the fraudulent cure.
Died at USP Leavenworth in 1957 while serving a ten-year sentence.
Prohibition era gangster; battled Al Capone for the control of Chicago's criminal underworld; convicted of bank robbery in 1957; also known as "Bugs."[15]
Deceased; fatally stabbed at USP Leavenworth in 1986 while serving a life sentence.
Leader of the "69 Mob" gang, which sold millions of dollars worth of heroin throughout California in the early 1980s and protected its turf through violence; convicted in 1985 of murder, murder conspiracy and drug traffickingconspiracy; Mitchell is credited with creating the country's first large-scale, gang-controlled drug operation.[19]
Released from custody in 2009 after serving ten years.
Leader of the Latin Kings gang in New York and New Jersey from 1996 to 1999; pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine; also known as "King Tone."[20]
Prison authorities describe him as a brutal killer and a former leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. He has been incarcerated continuously since 1977 and has been convicted of four separate murders while imprisoned, one of which was overturned[21]
Released in 1945 after serving 18 months of a 4-year sentence.
Founding member of the Fair Play Committee at Heart Mountain concentration camp for Japanese Americans evicted from the West Coast during World War II; Emi and six other FPC leaders were convicted of conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act after protesting the incarceration and encouraging internees to resist the draft unless they and their families were released from camp. The charges were eventually overturned by a Federal Appeals court.[23]
Leader of the Communist Party USA from 1959 until his death in 2000; Hall and 11 party leaders were tried under the Smith Act, which was used to charge and incarcerate perceived enemies of the US government; Hall was convicted in 1948 and sentenced to five years in prison. Hall was subsequently sentenced to an extra three years for jumping bail.[25]
Convicted and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment for his supporting role in tax protestor related shootings. He was transferred to the maximum security prison at USP Terre Haute, Indiana when USP Leavenworth was downgraded to medium security.
Serial killer, rapist, arsonist and burglar; confessed to 22 murders; executed for the murder of Institution Laundry Foreman Robert G. Warnke, which Panzram committed while serving a 25-year sentence at USP Leavenworth.[34]
Released from federal custody in 1988 after serving 11 years; currently serving a life sentence in state prison.
Convicted of kidnapping Katie Callaway in 1976; pleaded guilty of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991; his wife, Nancy, was also sentenced to 36 years.[35]
Held at USP Leavenworth from 1912 to 1942; transferred to the federal prison on Alcatraz Island in 1942.
Convicted of manslaughter in 1909 and murdering a correction officer in 1916; raised and studied birds in his cell at USP Leavenworth and became a leading ornithologist; wrote two books and made significant contributions to the field of ornithology.
