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{{short description|United States federal prison in Arizona}}
{{Infobox prison
| prison_name    = United States Penitentiary, Tucson
| image          = United States Penitentiary, Tucson.jpg
| location       = [[Tucson, Arizona]]
| coordinates    = {{Coord|32|04|53|N|110|51|29|W|display=inline,title}}
| status         = Operational
| classification = High-security (with minimum-security prison camp)
| population     = 1,426 [1,308 at the USP, 118 in prison camp] (September 2023)
| opened         = 2007<ref name="AZStar-20070202-drain" />
| closed         = 
| managed_by     = [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]
| warden         = 
}}

The '''United States Penitentiary, Tucson''' ('''USP Tucson''') is a high-security United States [[federal prison]] for male inmates in Arizona. It is part of the [[Federal Correctional Complex, Tucson|Tucson Federal Correctional Complex]] (FCC Tucson) and is operated by the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]], a division of the [[United States Department of Justice]]. The facility also has a satellite prison camp for minimum-security male offenders.

USP Tucson is located within Tucson's city limits, {{convert|10|mi}} southeast of downtown [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/tcp/index.jsp |title=USP Tucson |publisher=Federal Bureau of Prisons}}</ref>

==History==
The Federal Bureau of Prisons drafted a report on March 28, 2001 naming Tucson as an ideal site for a new federal prison housing either 1,100 medium security or 1,000 high security inmates. A hearing was arranged the following May.<ref name="AZStar-20010501-hearing">{{cite news|title=Hearing on new federal prison|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ADSB&s_site=azstarnet&f_site=azstarnet&f_sitename=Arizona+Daily+Star%2C+The+%28AZ%29&p_multi=ADSB&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_text_direct-0=0EED26DBF0B265BB&p_field_direct-0=document_id|newspaper=[[Arizona Daily Star]]|access-date=August 17, 2010|date=May 1, 2001}}</ref>

Construction was completed in 2005 at a cost of about $100 million, but additional preparations took over a year before inmates could be received.  The {{convert|584000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} facility is situated on a {{convert|640|acre|km2|adj=on}} property and designed for 1,500 inmates, though officials had at one time planned to limit the population to around 960. The minimum-security work camp provides labor for day-to-day operations of the federal prison complex. It has been described as "its own little city" by Josias Salazar, executive assistant of the prison complex. The opening of the penitentiary on February 5, 2007 worsened a local shortage of prison officers and was cited by residents for adding to the street traffic generated by the various prison facilities.<ref name="AZStar-20070202-drain">{{cite news|author=Dale Quinn|title=Guard drain strains Tucson prisons|url=http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_6a7dd900-3942-5cf6-a13e-b477f3c5e395.html|newspaper=[[Arizona Daily Star]]|access-date=August 17, 2010|date=February 2, 2007}}</ref><ref name="AZStar-20061228-ready">{{cite news|author=Tim Ellis|title=Federal prison nearly ready|url=http://azstarnet.com/news/local/east/article_4d63b91c-e76d-5094-88e0-52d3356f76c3.html|newspaper=[[Arizona Daily Star]]|access-date=August 17, 2010|date=December 28, 2006}}</ref>

==Sex Offender Management Program==
USP Tucson is one of several federal prisons that offers a Sex Offender Management Program (SOMP) and therefore has a higher proportion of sex offenders in its general population. Having a larger number of sex offenders at SOMP facilities ensures that inmates feel safe about participating in treatment. USP Tucson offers a Non-Residential Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP-NR), which is a moderate intensity program designed for low to moderate risk sexual offenders. Many of the inmates in the SOTP-NR are first-time offenders serving a sentence for an Internet sex crime. All SOMP institutions offer the SOTP-NR. Eligible
inmates are transferred to a SOMP facility based on their treatment needs and security level. USP Tucson houses several high-profile sex offenders.<ref>{{cite web|title=Admissions and Orientation Handbook: Federal Correctional Complex, Tucson|url=http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/tcn/TCX_aohandbook.pdf|publisher=Federal Bureau of Prisons|access-date=9 November 2013|year=2012}}</ref>

==Notable incidents==
The penitentiary went into [[lockdown]] on May 28, 2009 after several inmates were hospitalized from fights involving improvised weapons.<ref name="AZStar-20090529-lockdown">{{cite news|author=Alexis Huicochea|title=Tucson federal prison remains on lockdown after inmate fights|url=http://azstarnet.com/news/article_6dabbf1d-66f2-58dd-90a7-307c4c9ac5ff.html|newspaper=[[Arizona Daily Star]]|access-date=August 17, 2010|date=May 29, 2009}}</ref> Another inmate, Joseph William Nichols, was sentenced to 33 more months after being caught on August 12, 2009 with a concealed plastic [[shiv (weapon)|shank]] that had been fashioned from his prison chair. A search of the kitchen where Nichols had been assigned resulted in the discovery of hidden [[contraband]] packages containing weapons and [[drug paraphernalia]].<ref name="KGUN-20091022-time">{{cite news|title=Federal prison inmate in Tucson gets more time|url=http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=11369395|publisher=[[KGUN-TV]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|access-date=August 17, 2010|date=October 22, 2009}}{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Media coverage==
In July 2010, a ''[[San Diego CityBeat]]'' reporter [[mail]]ed former congressman [[Duke Cunningham|Randy "Duke" Cunningham]] to inquire about his time at the prison's work camp halfway into his 100-month sentence for [[tax evasion]], [[conspiracy (crime)|conspiracy]] to commit [[bribery]], [[mail fraud]] and [[wire fraud]].<ref name="SDCB-20100811-love">{{cite news|url=http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-8024-from-tucson-with-love.html|title=From Tucson with love|author=Dave Maass|newspaper=[[San Diego CityBeat]]|access-date=August 17, 2010|date=August 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814150933/http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-8024-from-tucson-with-love.html|archive-date=August 14, 2010|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="Cunningham-plea-agreement">{{cite web|year=2005|url=http://www.dukecunningham.org/bibliography/plea-agreement.html|title=Plea Agreement by Randy "Duke" Cunningham and the U.S. Attorney|access-date=2005-12-05}}</ref> Cunningham, who has become an advocate of [[prison reform]],<ref name="KGTV-20100812-teaching">{{cite news|url=http://washingtonindependent.com/94507/randy-duke-cunningham-prison-reform-advocate|title=Randy "Duke" Cunningham: Prison Reform Advocate|author=Jesse Zwick|newspaper=[[The Washington Independent]]|access-date=August 25, 2010|date=August 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100829180920/http://washingtonindependent.com/94507/randy-duke-cunningham-prison-reform-advocate|archive-date=August 29, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> responded in a handwritten [[letter (message)|letter]] that he spends his days there teaching fellow inmates to obtain their [[General Educational Development|GED]]. He wrote: "[Too] many students have severe learning disabilities from either drugs or genetic[s]. During the past 4 years only one of my students was unable to graduate—I taught him life skills, using a calculator to add, subtract, [multiply and divide]. This way he could at least balance a check book."<ref name="SDCB-20100811-love" />

==Notable inmates (current and former)==
*Inmates who were released from custody prior to 1982 are not listed on the Bureau of Prisons website.

===High-profile===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Brian David Mitchell]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=15815-081&x=100&y=14 15815-081]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[File:Mugshot briandavid.jpg|80px]]
| Now at [[United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute|USP Terre Haute]]
| [[Pedophile]] and former street preacher; convicted in 2010 of interstate [[kidnapping]] and sentenced to life imprisonment for [[Mann Act|unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines]] in connection with the 2002 abduction of [[Elizabeth Smart]]; accomplice Wanda Barzee was sentenced to 15 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao/ut/press/releases/Mitchell%20sentenced%20to%20life%20in%20federal%20prison.pdf |title=Mitchell Sentenced to Life in Prison in Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping Case |publisher=Justice.gtov |access-date=2012-11-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529110226/http://www.justice.gov/usao/ut/press/releases/Mitchell%20sentenced%20to%20life%20in%20federal%20prison.pdf |archive-date=2011-05-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| Gregory Stephen
| style="text-align:center;"| [https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ 17502-029]
| style="text-align:center;"|
| Serving a 180-year sentence, scheduled for release in August 2171
| Sentenced to 180 years for secretly collecting pictures of 440 boys and molested more than a dozen boys between 1999 and 2018. He secretly recorded three boys between the ages of 12 and 14 naked in a hotel room.<ref>{{cite news|last=Stephen |first=Gregory |title=Ex-AAU Coach Greg Stephen Sentenced to 180 Years in Prison on Sex Charges |url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2834378-ex-aau-coach-greg-stephen-sentenced-to-180-years-in-prison-on-sex-charges |date=May 2, 2019|access-date=June 5, 2021}}</ref> Release date scheduled to be in August 1, 2171.
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Mahmudiyah killings|Steven Dale Green]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=20848-058&x=99&y=11 20848-058]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[File:Steven Dale Green.jpg|80px]]
| Committed suicide on February 15, 2014, while serving a life sentence<ref>{{cite news|last=Almasy|first=Steve|title=Former soldier at center of murder of Iraqi family dies after suicide attempt|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/18/us/soldier-steven-green-suicide/index.html?iref=allsearch|publisher=CNN|access-date=15 March 2014|date=February 18, 2014}}</ref>
| Former [[US Army|U.S. Army]] [[Private (rank)|Private]] and war criminal; convicted in 2009 of [[murder|first degree murder]], [[aggravated sexual assault|aggravated sexual abuse]], and other charges for raping 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi near Mahmoudiya, Iraq and then killing her and her family in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dao |first=James |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/us/22soldier.html |title=Ex-Soldier Gets Life Sentence for Iraq Murders |location=Iraq |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2009-05-21 |access-date=2012-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/08/private-green-guilty-on-a_n_199666.html |title=Private Green Guilty On All Counts |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |access-date=2012-11-06 |first=Evan |last=Bright |date=May 8, 2009}}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| Toby MacFarlane
| style="text-align:center;"| [https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ 74173-298]
| style="text-align:center;"|
| Served 6-month sentence and released on April 21, 2020
| Charged with connection to the [[2019 college admissions bribery scandal]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/index.jsp|title=Inmate Locator}}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Buster Hernandez]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 76731-097
|
|Serving a 75-year sentence, schedule for release in 2080
|Convicted of [[child pornography]] and [[sextortion]] charges by inappropriately messaging up to 375 minors as well as threatening mass murder at their schools.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/marion-county/2021/03/12/buster-hernandez-brian-kil-plainfield-indiana-bomb-threat-sentenced/4651858001/|title=Buster Hernandez, aka 'Brian Kil', sentenced in school bombing threats, sextortion case|website=IndyStar|date=March 12, 2021|access-date=September 25, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Larry Nassar]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ 21504-040]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[File:Larry Nassar 2018 Voice of America.png|80px]]
| Transferred to [[United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg|FCI Lewisburg]].
| Former [[USA Gymnastics]] team physician, convicted on federal charges relating to the possession of thousands of items of [[child pornography]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmi/pr/2017_1207_Nassar|title=Lawrence Nassar Sentenced To 60 Years In Federal Prison|publisher=United States Department of Justice|date=December 7, 2017|access-date=January 23, 2018|quote=Lawrence Gerard Nassar, 54, of Holt, Michigan...}}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[H. Rap Brown|Jamil Addullah al-Amin]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ 99974-555]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[File:H Rap Brown - USNWR crop.jpg|80px]]
| Serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole
| Black Power activist. Convicted of murder in Georgia.
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Keith Raniere]]
| style="text-align:center;"| 57005-177
|[[File:US v. Raniere GovtExhibit GX46.JPG|80px]]
|Serving a 120-year sentence, scheduled for release in 2120 
|Founder of the [[NXIVM]] cult, convicted in 2019 for 2 counts of sex trafficking, racketeering, forced labor conspiracy, attempted sex trafficking, and wire fraud conspiracy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/928371831/nxivm-cult-leader-sentenced-to-120-years-in-prison|title=NXIVM Cult Leader Sentenced To 120 Years In Prison|website=NPR|date=October 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nxivm-sex-cult-leader-keith-raniere-sentenced-120-years-behind-n1244919|title=NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere sentenced to 120 years in prison|website=NBC News|date=October 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/10/27/keith-raniere-nxivm-sentenced/6051713002/|title=Keith Raniere, founder of cult-like group NXIVM, sentenced to 120 years in prison|website=USA Today|date=October 27, 2020}}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Fort Lauderdale airport shooting|Esteban Santiago-Ruiz]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=77992-083&x=92&y=18 15500-104]
|[[File:Esteban Santiago.png|80px]]
|Serving five life sentences plus 120 years.
|Convicted in 2018 for the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/08/17/gunman-who-killed-fort-lauderdale-airport-sentenced-life-prison/|title=Gunman who killed 5 at Fort Lauderdale airport is sentenced to life in prison}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cbs12.com/news/local/airport-gunman-sentenced-to-five-life-terms-120-years|title=Airport gunman sentenced to five life terms, 120 years}}</ref>
|}

===Political figures===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Duke Cunningham|Randy "Duke" Cunningham]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=94405-198&x=82&y=15 94405-198]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[File:Randy Duke Cunningham Jan 2005.jpg|80px]]
| Released from custody on June 4, 2013; served 7 years.<ref>{{cite web|last=Chen|first=Sharon|title=Randy 'Duke' Cunningham released from prison|url=http://fox5sandiego.com/2013/06/04/former-san-diego-congressman-randy-duke-cunningham-released-from-prison/#axzz2q3TxaRxC|publisher=Tribune Broadcasting Company|access-date=11 January 2014|date=June 4, 2013}}</ref>
| Former [[US Congressman]] from California; pleaded guilty in 2005 to accepting $2.4 million in bribes from company owners in return for awarding them contracts to produce military equipment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna11655893 |title=Ex-congressman begins prison sentence - US news - Crime & courts |publisher=NBC News |access-date=2012-11-06}}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| {{sortname|Philip|Giordano}}
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=14302-014&x=85&y=21 14302-014]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[File:Giordano_Mugshot.jpg|80px]]
|Now at [[Federal Correctional Institution, Yazoo City|FCI Yazoo City]]
| Mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut from 1995 to 2001; convicted in 2003 of violating the civil rights of two female minors by forcing them to perform sex acts on him.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/nyregion/ex-mayor-convicted-in-sex-abuse-case.html?ref=philipagiordano | work=The New York Times | first=Paul | last=Von Zielbauer | title=Ex-Mayor Convicted in Sex Abuse Case | date=March 26, 2003}}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Timothy Villagomez]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=00590-005&x=86&y=11 00590-005]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[File:Timothy Villagomez.jpg|80px]]
| Served a 7-year sentence. Released on June 23, 2017.
| [[Lieutenant Governor|LT Governor]] of the [[Northern Mariana Islands]], a [[United States territory|US territory]], from 2006 to 2009; convicted in 2009 of [[fraud]] and [[bribery]]; highest-ranking official from the Mariana Islands to be convicted .<ref>{{cite web|author=iSite Interactive Limited |url=http://www.islandsbusiness.com/news/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMiddle/focusModuleID=130/focusContentID=16294/tableName=mediaRelease/overideSkinName=newsArticle-full.tpl |title=CNMI former Lieutenant governor gets 7 years in prison |publisher=Islands Business |date=2009-08-06 |access-date=2012-11-06}}</ref>
|}

===Terrorists===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
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!width=8%|Register Number
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Jaan Laaman]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=10372-016&x=87&y=20 10372-016]
| Released from [[United States Penitentiary, McCreary|USP McCreary]] in May 2021
| Member of the [[United Freedom Front]], a [[Marxist]] group which carried out robberies and bombings at corporate and governments facilities in the 1970s and early 1980s; convicted in 1985 for his involvement in 10 bombings and attempted bombings in New York.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/22/us/us-to-try-eight-on-a-rare-charge-plotting-to-overthrow-the-governament.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=U.S. To Try Eight On A Rare Charge, Plotting To Overthrow The Government - New York Times |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1987-05-22 |access-date=2012-11-06 |first=Matthew L. |last=Wald}}</ref>
|}

===Organized crime figures===
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[William Leonard Pickard|William Pickard]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=82687-011&x=85&y=11 82687-011]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[File:Leonardpickard.jpg|80px]]
| Sentenced to serve two life sentences. Released on July 27, 2020 after serving 17 years. 
| Former Deputy Director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]]; convicted in 2003 of conspiracy to produce and distribute the drug [[LSD]]; Pickard was allegedly the largest supplier of LSD in the United States at the time of his arrest.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-apr-04-me-lsd4-story.html |title=Ex-UCLA Chemist Guilty in LSD Case - Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=2003-04-04 |access-date=2012-11-06 |first=Stuart |last=Silverstein}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rgbspecialprojects.blogspot.com/2006/03/10th-circuit-affirms-pickards-lsd-life.html |title=Drug Law Reporter: 10th Circuit Affirms Pickard's LSD Life Sentence |publisher=Rgbspecialprojects.blogspot.com |date=2006-03-29 |access-date=2012-11-06}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Whitey Bulger]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=02182-748&x=74&y=5 02182-748]
| |[[File:Whitey Bulger US Marshals Service Mug1.jpg|80px]]
| Served life sentences plus 5 years under his real name, James J. Bulger.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bulger Sentenced to Two Life Terms|url=https://www.fbi.gov/boston/press-releases/2013/bulger-sentenced-to-two-life-terms|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=11 December 2013|date=November 14, 2013}}</ref> Murdered in 2018 upon arrival at [[USP Hazelton]].
| Former leader of the [[Winter Hill Gang]] in Massachusetts and [[FBI Ten Most Wanted]] fugitive; apprehended in 2011 after 16 years on the run; convicted in 2013 of ordering 11 murders, as well as [[extortion]], [[money laundering]] and [[drug trafficking]]. Transferred in October 2018 to the Federal Transfer Center and then to [[USP Hazelton]], where he was murdered less than 24 hours after arrival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2018/10/james_whitey_bulger_moved_to_oklahoma_prison|title = James "Whitey" Bulger moved to Oklahoma prison|date = 25 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=High life brought low: Jury finds 'Whitey' Bulger guilty in killings, racketeering|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/us/whitey-bulger-trial-verdict/|publisher=CNN|access-date=11 December 2013|author=Deborah Feyerick|author2=Kristina Sgueglia |date=August 13, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Seelye|first=Katharine|title=Bulger Guilty in Gangland Crimes, Including Murder|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/us/james-whitey-bulger-verdict.html?_r=0|access-date=11 December 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 12, 2013}}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Anthony Casso]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=16802-748&x=91&y=16 16802-050]
| style="text-align:center;"|[[File:AnthonyCassoNJmugshot.jpg|80px]]
| Died in custody on December 15, 2020 while serving a 455 year sentence in prison<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bop.gov/resources/news/pdfs/20201216_press_release_tuc1.pdf|title=Inmate Death at USP Tucson|publisher=bop.gov|date=December 16, 2020}}</ref>
| American mobster and underboss of the [[Lucchese crime family]]. After Casso's arrest in 1993, he agreed to turn informant in 1994. However, in 1998, Casso was thrown out of the witness protection program after prosecutors alleged numerous infractions, in 1997, including bribing guards, assaulting other inmates and making "false statements" about Gravano and D'Arco. Shortly afterward, Judge Block sentenced Casso to 455 years in prison without possibility of parole—the maximum sentence permitted under sentencing guidelines.<ref name=rescind>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/01/nyregion/plea-deal-rescinded-informer-may-face-life.html |title=Plea Deal Rescinded, Informer May Face Life |first=Selwyn |last=Raab |date=July 1, 1998|work=The New York Times |via=nytimes.com}}</ref><ref name=appeal>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/23/nyregion/mafia-informer-s-2nd-appeal-says-his-plea-deal-was-undercut.html|title=Mafia Informer's 2nd Appeal Says His Plea Deal Was Undercut|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 23, 2000}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Louis Eppolito]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=04596-748&x=91&y=16 04596-748]
| style="text-align:center;"|
| Died in custody on November 3, 2019 while serving a life sentence
| Former [[NYPD]] detective; convicted in 2006 of carrying out murders and sharing law enforcement intelligence disclosing the identities of witnesses for the [[Lucchese crime family]]; his partner, Stephen Caracappa, was also sentenced to life.<ref>{{cite news|last=Feuer |first=Alan |url=http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/e/louis_j_eppolito/index.html |title=Louis J. Eppolito News - The New York Times |publisher=Topics.nytimes.com |date=2009-03-09 |access-date=2012-11-06}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Ross Ulbricht]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ 18870-111]
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| Serving 2 life sentences + 40 years without the possibility of parole
| Convicted in 2015 for operating [[Silk Road (marketplace)|Silk Road marketplace]] web site and drug trafficking.
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| style="text-align:center;"| [[Craig Petties]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [http://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ 82553-179]
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| Serving nine life sentences.
| Pleaded guilty to 19 charges related to his role as the ringleader of one of the largest drug trafficking organizations ever prosecuted in West Tennessee.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/drug-trafficking-ringleader-craig-petties-sentenced-life-federal-prison | title=Drug Trafficking Ringleader Craig Petties Sentenced to Life in Federal Prison | date=19 March 2015 }}</ref>
|}

===Others===
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!width=8%|Register Number
!width=5%|Photo
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!width=52%|Details
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| align="center" | Edward Oedewaldt
| align="center" | [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=14701-035&x=96&y=23/ 14701-035]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[File:OEDEWALDT.jpg|80px]]
| Now at [[Federal Correctional Institution, Petersburg|FCI Petersburg]] 
| Arrested during [[Operation Delego|the largest child pornography prosecution in US history]]; pleaded guilty in 2011 to being the [[system administrator]] of [[Dreamboard]], a website whose members produced and traded images and videos of adults molesting children.<ref>{{cite web|title=EIGHT MORE DEFENDANTS SENTENCED IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL NETWORK ORGANIZED TO SEXUALLY EXPLOIT CHILDREN|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao/law/news/wdla20120803.pdf|publisher=US Department of Justice|date=August 3, 2012}}</ref>
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|align="center" | Ryan Patrick Lane
|align="center" | [https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ 13107-049]
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|Now at [[Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute|FCI Terre Haute]]
|Convicted for robbing the [[Toronto-Dominion Bank|TD Bank]] in [[Hampton, New Hampshire]], on April 14, 2013; the Rockland Trust Bank in [[Hingham, Massachusetts]], on March 29, 2013; and the Braintree Cooperative Bank in [[Quincy, Massachusetts]], on April 25, 2013. In each instance, Lane entered the bank and handed the teller a note demanding money and, in the Hampton robbery, threatened to kill the teller if she pushed any alarms. Lane fled the banks on foot after committing the robberies. Transferred to another prison after assaulting [[Larry Nassar]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Local Bank Robber From Charlestown Sent Letter Bragging About Assaulting Larry Nassar In Prison|date=25 September 2018|url=https://turtleboysports.com/local-bank-robbing-boob-from-charlestown-sent-letter-bragging-about-assaulting-larry-nassar-in-prison-with-neo-nazi-partner-started-a-gofundme-on-facebook-which-was-removed/}}</ref>
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|align="center" | David Hu
|align="center" | 07968-509
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| Serving a 12-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2031.
| Co-founder of [[IIG Capital]] who was convicted of running a $100 million ponzi-scheme.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-11/investment-chief-gets-12-years-for-running-100-million-scam|title=Investment Chief Gets 12 Years for Running $100 Million Scam|website=Bloomberg|date=April 11, 2022|access-date=September 3, 2024}}</ref>
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|United States|Politics|Arizona}}
* [[List of U.S. federal prisons]]
* [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]
* [[Incarceration in the United States]]
* [[Sex offender registries in the United States]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/tcp/index.jsp USP Tucson] at the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] (Official site)
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