American people who died in prison custody

Albert DeSalvo - Albert Henry DeSalvo was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler", the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area.

Albert Tocco - Albert Tocco, also known as "Caesar", was a high ranking member of the Chicago Outfit during the 1970s and '80s.

Amy Archer-Gilligan - "Sister" Amy Archer-Gilligan was a Connecticut nursing-home proprietor and serial killer who systematically murdered at least five people by poison; one was her second husband, Michael Gilligan,...

Angelo Buono, Jr. - Angelo Buono, Jr. was an American serial killer.

Anthony Corallo - Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo was a New York City mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.

Bata LoBagola - Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola was an early 20th century American impostor and entertainer who presented an exoticized identity as a native of Africa, when in reality he was born Joseph Howa...

Benjamin Anderson (soldier) - Benjamin M. Anderson was a partisan soldier for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

Benjamin Snyder - Benjamin "Benny" Snyder or Schneider was an American criminal, union organizer and thug for hire during the turn of the century.

Billy Gohl - Billy Gohl was an American serial killer who, while working as a union official, would murder sailors passing through Aberdeen, Washington.

Billy Ray Hamilton - Billy Ray Hamilton was an American convicted murderer who conspired with Clarence Ray Allen to murder eight witnesses to a crime committed by Allen in 1974.

Carl Civella - Carl "Cork" Civella was the leader of the Kansas City crime family following the death of his brother, long-time crime boss Nicholas Civella, after heading day-to-day operations during the mid-1970s.

Carl Eugene Watts - Carl Eugene Watts, also known by his nickname Coral, was an American serial killer dubbed "The Sunday Morning Slasher".

Carmine Tramunti - Carmine "Mr. Gribbs" Tramunti was a New York mobster who was the titular head of the Lucchese crime family between 1967 and 1974.

Carol M. Bundy - Carol M. Bundy was an American serial killer.

Charles Bedaux - Charles Eugène Bedaux was one of the most colorful millionaires of the early twentieth century.

Daniel Lee Siebert - Daniel Lee Siebert was an American serial killer on Alabama's death row.

David Edward Maust - David Edward Maust was an American rapist and murderer.

David Lane (white nationalist) - David Eden Lane was an American white nationalist leader, author and convicted felon.

David Meirhofer - David G. Meirhofer was an American serial killer who committed four murders in rural Montana between 1966 and 1974 - three of them children.

David Parker Ray - David Parker Ray was an American serial killer and torturer of women suspected by police to have murdered as many as 60 people in the city of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Elmer H. Inman - Elmer H. Inman was an American criminal, bank robber, jewel thief and Depression-era outlaw.

Emanuel Viktor Voska - Emanuel Viktor Voska, born 1875 in Kutná Hora, Bohemia, died April 1, 1960 in Ruzyně prison in Prague, Czechoslovakia, U.S. intelligence agency officer who died in Czechoslovak prison.

Enrico Tameleo - Enrico "Henry" Tameleo, also known as "The Referee," was an Italian-American mobster from Boston, Massachusetts and underboss in the New England-based Patriarca crime family of La Cosa Nostra fr...

Ernest Ingenito - Ernest Ingenito was an American mass murderer who shot nine people, his wife Theresa and her family, killing five, on November 17, 1950 in Franklin Township, New Jersey, and Minotola, New Jersey.

Ervil LeBaron - Ervil Morrell LeBaron was the leader of a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group who ordered the killings of many of his opponents, using the religious doctrine of blood atonement to justify the...

Felix Alderisio - Felix "Milwaukee Phil" Alderisio was a prominent enforcer, bagman, hitman and burglar for the Chicago Outfit, serving as an underboss to Salvatore Giancana during the 1960s and as acting boss fo...

Francis Xavier Ford - Francis Xavier Ford M.M. was an American Roman Catholic missionary in China.

Fred “Killer” Burke - Fred Burke was a Midwestern armed robber and contract killer responsible for many crimes during the Prohibition era.

Gaston Means - Gaston Bullock Means was an American private detective, Salesman, bootlegger, Forger, swindler, murder suspect, blackmailer, and con artist.

George Jackson (Black Panther) - George Lester Jackson was an American convict, who became a communist and a member of the Black Panther Party while in prison, where he spent the last twelve years of his life.

Gerald Scarpelli - Gerald Hector Scarpelli was a hitman for the Chicago Outfit criminal organization who later became a government witness.

Gerard John Schaefer - Gerard John Schaefer was an American serial killer from Florida.

Glennon Engleman - Dr Glennon E. Engleman was a St Louis dentist who moonlighted as a hitman, concocting and carrying out at least seven murders for profit over the course of 30 years.

H. Paul Rico - Harold Paul Rico was an FBI agent.

Harold H. Thompson (anarchist) - Harold H. Thompson was an Irish-American anarchist activist and prisoner.

Harry Aleman - Harry "The Hook" Aleman was a Chicago mobster who was one of most feared enforcers for the Chicago Outfit during the 1970s.

Harry Riccobene - Harry Riccobene was a high-ranking member of the Philadelphia crime family who became a major figure in the short, but violent, gang war that followed the 1980 death of boss Angelo Bruno.

Henry Lee Lucas - Henry Lee Lucas was an American criminal, convicted of murder and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer; he later recanted his confessions, and flatly stated "I am not a serial ki...

Ilario Zannino - Ilario "Larry Baione" M.A. Zannino was the muscle and chief gambling honcho for Raymond J. Patriarca and the Patriarca crime family.

Irv Rubin - Irving D. Rubin was chairman of the Jewish Defense League from 1985 to 2002.

J. L. Hunter "Red" Rountree - J. L. Hunter "Red" Rountree, an American criminal, is believed to have been the world's oldest active bank robber.

Jack Abbott - Jack Henry Abbott was an American criminal and author.

Jack Ruby - Jack Leon Rubenstein, who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was an American nightclub operator in Dallas, Texas.

Jacob Shapiro - Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro was a New York mobster who, with his partner Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, controlled industrial labor racketeering in New York for two decades and established the Murder, Inc....

James Allen (highwayman) - James Allen was a Massachusetts resident and highwayman in the early 19th century.

Kenneth Michael Trentadue - Kenneth Michael Trentadue was an Oklahoma man who died while in federal custody during the investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Kenny Wagner - William Kenneth Wagner more commonly known as Kenny Wagner was a bootlegger in the U.S. state of Mississippi, who murdered several people, including two sheriff's deputies.

Kuwasi Balagoon - Kuwasi Balagoon, born Donald Weems, was a Black Panther, a member of the Black Liberation Army, a New Afrikan anarchist, and a defendant in the Panther 21 case in the late sixties.

Larry Davis (criminal) - Larry Davis, who changed his name to Adam Abdul-Hakeem in 1989, was a New Yorker who shot six New York City police officers on November 19, 1986 when they raided his sister's Bronx apartment.

Larry Eyler - Larry Eyler was an American serial killer convicted and sentenced to death for the 1984 murder and dismemberment of 15-year old Daniel Bridges.

Lawrence Singleton - Lawrence Singleton was an American criminal.

Leroy Nash - Viva Leroy Nash was the oldest American on death row at the time of his death in February 2010.

Leslie Irvin (serial killer) - Leslie "Mad Dog" Irvin was an American serial killer whose killing spree in the early 1950s terrorized residents of southwestern Indiana and whose Supreme Court case set a precedent for ensuring...

Machine Gun Kelly - George Kelly Barnes, better known as "Machine Gun Kelly", was a notorious American criminal during the prohibition era.

Mack Ray Edwards - Mack Ray Edwards was an American serial killer.

Mark Frechette - Mark Frechette was an American film actor.

Maury Travis - Maury Troy Travis was an American serial killer who committed suicide in a St. Louis county jail, after being arrested for murder.

Michael O'Laughlen - Michael O'Laughlen, Jr. was a conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Nannie Doss - Nannie Doss was a serial killer responsible for the deaths of eleven people between the 1920s and 1954.

Nathaniel Bar-Jonah - Nathaniel Benjamin Levi Bar-Jonah, born David Paul Brown, was a convicted felon who was serving a 130-year prison sentence without the possibility of parole in Montana after being convicte...

Nicholas Bianco - Nicholas "Nicky" Bianco was a New York mobster and a member of the Colombo crime family who later moved to New England.

Nicholas Civella - Nicholas Civella was a Kansas City, Missouri mobster who became a prominent leader of the Kansas City crime family.

Nikolay Soltys - Nikolay Alekseyevich Soltys was a fugitive charged by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California in a federal and state arrest warrants for six murders of his family...

Oscar Hartzell - Oscar Hartzell was an American con man who convinced many people in North America to join him in a fraudulent lawsuit against the British government.

Osceola - Osceola was an influential leader with the Seminole in Florida.

Ottis Toole - Ottis Elwood Toole, sometimes misspelled as Otis, was an American serial killer and arsonist.

Patty Cannon - Martha "Patty" Cannon was the leader of a gang in the early 1800s that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula and transported and sold them to plantation owners located fur...

Paul Vario - Paul Vario was a caporegime in the Lucchese Family.

Philip Markoff - Philip Haynes Markoff was a medical student who was charged with the armed robbery and murder of Julissa Brisman in a Boston, Massachusetts hotel on April 14, 2009, and two other armed robberies.

Ralph Scopo - Ralph "Little Ralphie" Scopo was a New York mobster and a member of the Colombo crime family who ran a powerful New York union local for the mob.

Randall Lee Smith - Randall Lee Smith was a convicted murderer in Virginia.

Ray and Faye Copeland - Ray and Faye Della Copeland were convicted of killing five drifters, and ultimately became the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States— Faye was 69 and Ray was 76...

Red Bird - Red Bird was a war chief of the tribe.

Richard A. Loeb - Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb, more commonly known as "Leopold and Loeb", were two wealthy University of Chicago students who murdered 14-year-old Bobby Fra...

Salvatore Santoro - Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santoro, Sr. was the powerful Underboss of the Lucchese crime family during the 1980s before he was eventually convicted in the Mafia Commission Trial and sentenced to 100 ye...

Salvatore Scala - Salvatore Scala, also known as "Fat Sal" and "Uncle Sal" was a New York mobster who became a caporegime in the Gambino crime family.

Samuel Carlisi - Samuel A. Carlisi also known as "Black Sam" and "Sam Wings", was a Chicago gangster who succeeded Joseph Ferriola as boss of the Chicago Outfit criminal organization.

Satanta (White Bear) - Satanta was a Kiowa war chief.

Spade Cooley - Donnell Clyde Cooley, better known as Spade Cooley, was an American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality.

Theodore Edward Coneys - "Denver Spiderman" was the name given to Theodore Edward Coneys, an American drifter who committed a murder in 1941 and subsequently occupied the attic of the victim's home for nine months.

Thomas Grettenberg - Thomas Earl Grettenberg was a serial rapist from Texas who attacked and sexually assaulted at least 10 and possibly as many as 24 women in 1977.

Thomas Sinito - Thomas James Sinito, also known as "The Chinaman", was a powerful Caporegime in the Cleveland crime family who was once accused of plotting the assassination of then mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, De...

Thor Nis Christiansen - Thor Nis Christiansen was a serial killer from Solvang, California.

Tillie Klimek - Ottilie "Tillie" Klimek was a Polish American serial killer, active in Chicago.

Uchee Billy - Uchee Billy was a chief of the Yuchi tribe who along with his band escaped forced relocation from Georgia to Indian Territory by escaping to Florida in 1822.

Victor Hassine - Victor Hassine was a prisoner for over 20 years in the Pennsylvania State Prison System.

Vincent Flemmi - Vincent James Flemmi, also known as "Jimmy The Bear," was an Italian-American mobster who freelanced for the Winter Hill Gang and the Patriarca crime family.

Vincent Gigante - Vincent "The Chin" Gigante was a New York mobster in the American Mafia.

Vincent Papa - Vincent Papa was an American criminal who became notorious for masterminding the theft of the French Connection heroin from the New York Police Department property office.

Vito Genovese - Vito "Don Vito" Genovese was an Italian mafioso who rose to power in America during the Castellammarese War to later become leader of the Genovese crime family.

W. A. Boyle - William Anthony "Tony" Boyle was president of the United Mine Workers of America union from 1963 to 1972.

Walter H. Breen - Walter H. Breen was an American author.

Waxey Gordon - Waxey Gordon was an American gangster who specialized in bootlegging and illegal gambling.

Wayne DuMond - Wayne Eugene DuMond was an American criminal convicted of murder and rape.

Wilhelm Reich - Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.