Twenty two million people are behind bars in the USA right now
in fact the land of the free has the world's highest incarceration rate back
in the day America's worst prisoners like Al Capone would be sent to Alcatraz
Alcatraz was an island prison which was inescapable but in 1963 it was shut down
what replaced it though well America's new toughest prison is known as ADX
Florence the prison is terrifying but what's even scarier is who's inside I'm
Charlie and today we're going to look at who's kept in America's scariest prison
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bell to coming up first is Robert Hansen Robert Hansen is not your
run-of-the-mill criminal in fact he's a former FBI agent from 1979 to 2001 he
did espionage for the Soviet Union and later Russia that's right this guy was a
double agent for 20 years Robert Hansen has been regarded as the worst
intelligence disaster in US history during his time as a double agent he
betrayed dozens of US agents many of them actually lost their lives
specifically due to what Robert had given to the Soviets and Russia right
now he's serving 15 consecutive life sentences behind bars at ADX Florence
over the 20-year period he was a double agent Russia paid him more than 1.5
million dollars in cash and diamonds he would drop off classified materials at a
park near his home in Virginia USA eventually the FBI and CIA caught on and
began monitoring his every move eventually they caught him selling
thousands of documents about US strategies and classified nuclear
developments next up is Theodore Kaczynski you may not know this guy by
his real name but I'm sure you know his pseudo name the Unabomber this man is a
former mathematics professor and also a math genius in 1969 he abandoned his
academic career and began living in the woods he then published what's known as
the Unabomber manifesto he calls for everyone to send lots of explosive
devices in the and that's exactly what he did in fact
he carried out 16 bombings from 1978 to 1999 he would put these in packages and
used the US Mail service to deliver them now these 16 devices only took three
lives and injured 23 people but because he was living in the woods all by
himself the FBI had a tough time finding him eventually on the 3rd of April 1996
FBI raided his cabin after they located it but you're probably wondering what
caused this guy to go crazy well he was actually part of MKULTRA which was a CIA
research into mind-control the CIA psychologically destroyed this man and
that's what led him to be so crazy he actually spent over 200 hours as part of
the study but right now he's in ADX Florence serving eight life sentences
next up is Harold Nicolson Harold Nicolson is a former CIA officer and
he's actually the highest-ranking CIA officer to ever be convicted of
espionage for two years he passed lots of classified information to Russia
it seems he actually only did it for small amounts of money around $12,000
the FBI suspected him and he failed three polygraph tests he was told he
passed them all but was then secretly put under surveillance by the FBI the
FBI watched his travels when he went to Thailand Malaysia and Singapore and
during his time in Singapore they saw him go to the Russian embassy and drop
off a package right now he's serving a 23-year sentence at ADX Florence and he
is set to be released on the 27th of June 2024 it's not often you see anyone
actually get out of ADX Florence next up is Glendon Scott Crawford if I told you
about a mad scientist making a giant x-ray machine you'd assume it was
science fiction well I suppose you haven't heard of Glendon Scott Crawford
this man was a member of the Klan in the United States but in 2009 he was
sentenced to 30 years in ADX Florence you see he was in the process of
building a gigantic x-ray machine this would be enough to spew lethal doses of
radiation and take out many people from a distance his plan was to put this
giant machine inside a truck or a van he was then going to park it outside
areas where there were minority groups and use it to take out many lives he
even wanted to drive it to the White House and take out then President Barack
Obama but he is set to be released in 2013 ein but he'll be a very elderly man
by then so don't worry about him making another x-ray machine next up is Joaquin
Guzman if he thought walking Phoenix was scary in the Joker movie then get ready
to hear about this guy you may not know the name at joaquim Ark evaldo guzmán
loera but I'm sure you do know his nickname El
Chapo meaning shorty in Spanish he is the Mexican billionaire and former
leader of the Sinaloa cartel he's been arrested many times but his biggest
arrest came in 2017 after he escaped many times from Mexican prisons
including once tunneling his way out he was taken to the USA he was extradited
to the u.s. in January of 2017 he was charged with narco trafficking money
laundering and taking lives but it wasn't until February of this year 2019
when he was found guilty on all counts and it was decided on the 17th of july
2019 that he would go to adx florence for life he was actually sentenced to
life in prison plus 30 years now he's known for escaping from prisons but no
one has ever escaped ADX Florence but now his compadre El
Mayo has taken over the Sinaloa cartel so don't expect that crime to stop
anytime soon next up is James Marcelo you've probably heard stories of Chicago
mobsters well no one is more quintessential than James Marcelo he was
the front boss of a Chicago mob he's better known by his nickname Little
Jimmy as he's quite short in height but just because he's short
doesn't mean he's not scary he became a made member of the Chicago mob in 1983
being a made member is basically the highest rank in the mob it requires you
to be 100% Italian and have taken at least one life unbeknownst to James's
mob bosses his mother was actually Irish but nevertheless this was one scary guy
but right now this Italo American mob boss is serving life behind
bars and ADX Florence next up is Nishikawa dia this man is a former
employee for the US Department of Defense in fact he was an engineer and
one of the main designers for the b2b stealth bomber
you know those scary sci-fi looking black triangles in the sky well this guy
was actually the main designer for those they cost 250 million dollars each and
is said to be some of the USA's favorite toys so why on earth would they put him
in America's scariest prison well in 2011 he was convicted for selling
information to China apparently he began giving China classified information to
help them build cruise missiles he also laundered the money that China paid him
but it's thanks to him that china now has stealth technology missiles for this
he was sentenced to 32 years behind bars and he scheduled for release on the 12th
of September twenty thirty three and finally we have NASA Jason Abdo NASA
Awards a US Army private he's from Texas and in 2010 he was training at Fort
Campbell in Kentucky USA in June of 2010 he was set to be deployed to Afghanistan
but instead he refused to go and went AWOL this means he basically deserted
the military base and no one knew where he was later he planned to use a weapon
of mass destruction to take out a restaurant where many soldiers were
dining luckily the person he bought the materials from found it suspicious and
called the police they then tracked him down and arrested him just before he
could carry out this terrible deed he was then sentenced to two life sentences
plus 60 years but now it's time to make your voice heard votes in the poll in
the top right corner for the scariest inmate in ADX Florence I think it might
be the guy who made the x-ray machine glendan scott crawford if you guys want
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