1997 William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79
1996 Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor, dies at 76
1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
1994 Jeffrey Dahmer, [Butcher of Milwaukee], killer, killed in prison at 34
1994 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
1993 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
1993 Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69
1992 Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison
1992 Marion Berry, former mayor of Washington D.C., let out of prison
1991 Howard Spira sentenced to 2 years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison
1990 Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp
1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
1988 Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
1987 Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93
1987 R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy and perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference
1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
1982 Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
1982 Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1981 Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies
1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike
1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison
1980 Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000
1979 Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery
1979 John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison
1977 SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome
1977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison
1977 Former White House chief of staff HR Haldeman enters prison
1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
1977 Jan Patocka, Czech philosopher, dies in prison
1975 Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners and 1 guard (Sanford Fla)
1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison
1974 Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison
1974 Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82
1973 Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed in prison
1972 Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail
1971 Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey
1971 Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84
1971 11 guards and 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison
1971 1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison
1967 Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87
1967 Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)
1967 Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
1967 Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa
1962 Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56
1961 Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo
1956 Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
1955 Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
1951 German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
1950 Rev Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison
1949 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
1946 Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison
1946 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco bay
1945 Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44
1944 Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison
1944 Gandhi freed from prison
1943 Ray Mitchell, governor, Albany Prison, England
1941 Martin Mogg, governor, British Durham Prison
1941 Brendan O'Friel, CEO, Prison Governors Assn
1940 Bob Duncan, prison warden, Gartree Prison in UK
1936 Alan Rayfield, governor, Long Latin Prison
1934 Roger Kendrick, governor, Dartmoor Prison
1934 Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
1933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
1932 Al Capone sent to prison
1931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years
1929 Billy Nair, South Africa union/SACP leader, 20 years in Robbeneiland Prison
1925 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
1924 John Kilgour, director of prison medical services, Home Office
1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison
1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience
1920 Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor
1918 William Perrie, British prison governor
1913 Shirley Ross, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actress, Cafe Society, Prison Farm
1893 Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud
1891 Francoise Rosay, Paris, actress, Interlude, Women in Prison, Saraband
1887 Raymond Hatton, born in Red Oak, Iowa, actor, Girls in Prison, Lady Killer
1884 London prison for debtors closed
1873 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
1865 Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty
1862 Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C.
1811 Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer
1809 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war
1780 Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
1739 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal
1703 Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies
1619 Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
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