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2009 Former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, receives 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces

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 home run Haldeman enters prison

1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison

1977 Jan Patocka, Czechoslovakian 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 Reverend Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul

1951 German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison

1950 Wally Lamb, born in America, author, novelist, featured in Oprah's Book Club, books include 'The Hour I First Believed' 'I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison', 'She's Come Undone', 'I Know This Much is True'

1950 Reverend 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 at age 53

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 Association

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

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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