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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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