Deep down in the mountains of Colorado, America's supermax prison houses the country's most fierce detainees.
The infamous ADX Florence has some extraordinary security. More than 300 of the most vicious convicted criminals in the United States go through 23 hours daily secured in their cells here.
From serial killers to spies to terrorists, they all live next to each other. Some have even formed friendships that would've seemed impossible on the outside. In spite of the fact that everybody there has a terrible record, here we present to you five prisoners who are the worst of the worst.
1. Michael Swango AKA Dr. Death
Like any clinical expert, Dr. Michael Swango made a solemn vow to do no harm. However, he would break this vow on many many different occasions, as he was sentenced for murdering four individuals, and possibly executed up to 60 while he functioned as both an EMT and a physician.
From his early days filling in as a volunteer ambulance driver during his undergrad years, patients appeared to die much more frequently around Swango than normal. His associates and different colleagues likewise turned out to be viciously sick subsequent to eating food that Swango had messed with or even cooked himself.
While he was training at one medical clinic, he even picked up the nickname \"Double-O Swango\", referencing James Bond's permit to kill.
He may have likewise been responsible for the passing of his life partner, Kristin Kinney, who took her own life in a state of mental disarray that was possibly brought about by arsenic poisoning.
He in the end became blacklisted from all emergency clinics and clinical schools in the United States and fled to keep rehearsing medication in Zimbabwe, where patients kept on dying strangely under his care.
He committed numerous occurrences of assault and forgery with the goal that he could proceed with his tragic clinical profession, however he was in the end charged by both U.S. and Zimbabwean specialists and is carrying out three back to back life sentences.
2. Abu Hamza al-Masri AKA The Hook Hand
Abu Hamza al-Masri, is an Egyptian national who was a previous club bouncer and structural designer before turning into an Islamic extremist and terrorist leader.
During the 1980s, he started to take a more profound enthusiasm for his religion and got enlivened by the Iranian revolution. In 1987, he moved to Afghanistan to join the battle against Soviet forces and lost two hands and one eye during a military operation.
He came back to the U.K. to get treatment, before leaving again to battle with the Bosnians during the Bosnia-Serbia war.
From 1997-2003 he was the imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque in London and voiced his support for terrorism, including 9/11 assaults.
In 2003 the mosque was closed by police due to the possibility of the mosque being a site for the production of the poison ricin, however this did not stop al-Masri spreading his thoughts as he kept on giving messages from outside the doors.
During his time as imam, al-Masri sent students around the globe to partake in fierce acts, including the hijacking of sixteen westerners for Yemen, four of whom were killed.
His group likewise endeavored to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon, prompting the U.S. to get involved with his case.
In 2006, he was condemned to seven years in British jail for promoting terrorism. In 2012, he was moved to the U.S., where he was quickly found guilty of 11 acts of terrorism and sentenced to life in jail in 2015.
3. Eric Rudolph
Eric Rudolph went through five years on the FBI Most Wanted List for terrorism until he was finally captured by a new rookie officer while burrowing through the dumpster behind a Save-A-Lot market.
Rudolph experienced childhood in Florida and North Carolina before moving with his mom to a Missouri compound run by the Christian Identity movement, a racial interpretation of Christianity that believes Europeans are the chosen relatives of the Israelites and that Jews are the cursed relatives of Cain.
Rudolph enrolled in the U.S. Armed forces soon after this yet was released for use of marijuana.
Over the time period of 1996 to 1998, Rudolph committed four bombings, two at abortion centers and one at a lesbian bar.
His most famous assault was when he planted three bombs loaded up with nails in the pipes of the principal square of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, executing 44-year-old Alice Hawthorne, causing a lethal heart attack for 40-year-old Melih Uzunyol, and harming over a hundred others.
