2015 Event Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel, is sentenced to eight months in prison after new evidence emerges proving corruption charges for which he had been acquitted three years ago 2015 Event Mohamed Morsi, the former Egyptian president who was the first to be democratically elected, has been given a death sentence for his role in a prison outbreak during the revolution of 2011 2015 Event The Cairo Criminal Court convicts Egyptian ex-President Mohammed Morsi for his role in illegal detentions and violent responses to protests against him three years ago; he and other Muslim Brotherhood defendants will serve a 20-year prison term 2015 Event Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt, may be freed after the nation's high court overturned the sole remaining verdict against him for embezzling public funds; Mubarak has been serving his three-year prison term in a hospital due to poor health 2014 Event Sulaiman Abu Ghayth, son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, is sentenced in the U.S. to life in prison for providing support to al-Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks; Abu Ghayth commented that hundreds of young Muslims would rise up as a result of his imprisonment 2014 Event Two former Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, have been convicted of war crimes during the period of Cambodian genocide in the 1970s; a U.N.-supported war crimes tribunal sentenced the two men to life in prison; both men are in their 80s 2014 Event Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, is found guilty of bribery and corruption charges; Nagin has been sentenced to 10 years in prison 2014 Event Prominent Chinese legal activist, Xu Zhiyong, is sentenced to four years in prison; convicted of 'gathering a crowd to disturb public order,' the case is seen as evidence that Communist Party leaders wish to expunge any challenges to the power or leadership 2013 Event Twenty people die on the island of Madagascar from bubonic plague, which is transmitted to humans via rat fleas; chronic overcrowding and unhygienic prison conditions are identified as the root cause of the outbreak 2013 Event Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray is released from prison, two years after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter 2013 Event Prior to being transferred to house arrest, former Egyptian President is released from prison and transferred to a military hospital 2013 Event A corruption investigation continues after a Cairo criminal court releases former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from Tora prison 2013 Event The U.N. Human Rights Office determine it is a violation of international law to force-feed hunger strikers at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison 2013 Event Prosecutors for Boston Marathon bomber and Islamic terrorist Dzhokar Tsarnaev discuss a plea deal to avoid the death penalty in exchange for life in prison without parole 2013 Event In Saudi Arabia, Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawi is sentenced to five years in prison and 300 lashes, for possession of Xanax anti-anxiety pills 2012 Event Sergei Udaltsov, a Russian leftist protest leader is charged with plotting 'mass disorder', facing a sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted 2012 Event Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison, along with his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, for being complicit in killing of demonstrators in the 2011 revolution 2010 Event In Bauchi, northern Nigeria, an Islamist militant group named Boko Haram raids a prison and frees 721 inmates 2010 Event Philip Markoff, accused Craigslist killer, commits suicide and is found dead in Nashua Street jail prison 2010 Event South Africa's top police officer, Jackie Selebi, former chief of Interpol, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption 2010 Event Convicted for transporting soldiers during the Rwandan Genocide, Dominique Ntawukuriryayo is sentenced to 25 years in prison 2010 Event After new allegations of torture, the International Committee of the Red Cross reports a second U.S. secret prison exists at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan 2010 Event Tear gas is fired on more than 200 Palestinians and their allies protesting outside the gates of Ofer Prison over the recent detainment of colleagues 2009 Event Inmates at Iraq's notoriuous Abu Grraib prison start a fire and clash with guards during two days of unrest 2009 Event Former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, receives 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces 2003 Death Johnny Cash, country singer, "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line", dies at 71 1997 Death William Perrie, prison governor, dies at 79 1996 Death Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor, dies at 76 1995 Event Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters 1994 Death Jeffrey Dahmer, Butcher of Milwaukee, killer, killed in prison at 34 1994 Event 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt 1993 Event 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador 1993 Death Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69 1992 Event Colombia drug baron Pablo Escobar escapes prison 1992 Event Marion Berry, former mayor of Washington D.C., let out of prison 1991 Event Howard Spira sentenced to 2 years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner 1991 Event Singer James Brown is released from prison 1990 Event Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp 1989 Event Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison 1988 Event Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown 1987 Event Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison 1987 Death Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93 1987 Death R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy and perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference 1987 Event 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each 1982 Death Charlie Brooks, Jr., convicted murderer became 1st U.S. prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas 1982 Event Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children) 1981 Death Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies 1981 Event Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike 1981 Event Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison 1980 Event Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000 1979 Event Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery 1979 Event John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison 1977 Event SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome 1977 Event Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison 1977 Event Former White House chief of staff home run Haldeman enters prison 1977 Event James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison 1977 Death Jan Patocka, Czechoslovakian philosopher, dies in prison 1975 Event Fire in prison hospital kills 10 prisoners and 1 guard (Sanford Fla) 1975 Event Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison 1974 Event Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison 1974 Death Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82 1973 Death Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed in prison 1972 Event Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail 1971 Event Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey 1971 Death Raymond Hatton, actor (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 84 1971 Event 11 guards and 31 prisoners die in take over at Attica State Prison 1971 Event 1,000 convicts riot and seize Attica, New York prison 1967 Death Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87 1967 Event Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida) 1967 Event Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison 1967 Event Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison 1964 Event Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa 1962 Death Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56 1961 Event Moise Tsjombe freed from prison in Congo 1956 Event Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison 1955 Event Reverend Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul 1951 Event German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison 1950 Birthday 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 Event Reverend Sun Young Moon liberated from Hung Nam prison 1949 Event Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison 1946 Death Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison at age 53 1946 Event 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco bay 1945 Death Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 1944 Event Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison 1944 Event Gandhi freed from prison 1943 Birthday Ray Mitchell, governor, Albany Prison, England 1941 Birthday Martin Mogg, governor, British Durham Prison 1941 Birthday Brendan O'Friel, CEO, Prison Governors Association 1940 Birthday Bob Duncan, prison warden, Gartree Prison in UK 1936 Birthday Alan Rayfield, governor, Long Latin Prison 1934 Birthday Roger Kendrick, governor, Dartmoor Prison 1934 Event Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison 1933 Event Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially) 1932 Birthday Johnny Cash, born in Kingsland, Arkansas, country singer, "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line" 1932 Event Al Capone sent to prison 1929 Birthday Billy Nair, South Africa union/SACP leader, 20 years in Robbeneiland Prison 1925 Event Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta 1924 Birthday John Kilgour, director of prison medical services, Home Office 1922 Event British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison 1922 Event British magistrates in India sentence Mohandas K. Gandhi to 6 years in prison for disobedience 1920 Birthday Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor 1918 Birthday William Perrie, British prison governor 1913 Birthday Shirley Ross, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actress, Cafe Society, Prison Farm 1893 Event Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud 1891 Birthday Francoise Rosay, Paris, actress, Interlude, Women in Prison, Saraband 1887 Birthday Raymond Hatton, born in Red Oak, Iowa, actor, Girls in Prison, Lady Killer 1884 Event London prison for debtors closed 1873 Event 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute 1865 Death Henry Wards, Confederate prison supt, executed for excessive cruelty 1862 Event Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C. 1811 Birthday Wendell Phillips, women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reformer 1809 Event Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war 1780 Birthday Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse 1739 Event 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal 1703 Death Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies 1619 Event Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison 1567 Event Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
