Top 3 Most Dangerous Prison Inmates

jamal bakki
3 min readAug 19, 2018

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Prisons aren’t meant to house the best of the best, but it can still come as a shock just how dangerous, violent, and deplorable some of its inhabitants can be. No fluff for this Archive, we’re just going to launch right into the top three most dangerous prison inmates on Earth.

3. Barry Mills :

When Tyler Bingham incited the race war of 1997, he didn’t act alone. Barry Byron “The Baron” Mills was working alongside the lieutenant. At 21-years-old, Mills was incarcerated for armed robbery and has been in and out of jail ever since. During each stint in prison, Mills rose through the ranks of the Aryan Brotherhood, eventually becoming a leader and became responsible for the expansion of the gang in federal and state prisons. Mills has been connected with drug trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy, murder, and, in1979, was convicted of nearly decapitating a fellow inmate at a maximum-security prison.

2. Thomas Silverstein :

Often labeled the most violent prisoner in America, Thomas Silverstein was first arrested in 1971 at the age of 19 for armed robbery. Six years later, he was back for three more armed robberies. He was in and out of prison for years and eventually joined the Aryan Brotherhood. In 1983, he was placed in solitary confinement after murdering prison guard Merle Cluttsat Marion Penitentiary in Illinois, and there he’s been ever since. Before his 24/7 stint in solitary, Silverstein was an Aryan Brotherhood leader and was allegedly connected to the murder of D.C.Blacks gang leader Raymond “Cadillac” Smith after Smith was found stabbed 67 times. Silverstein is in the middle of a life sentence with a potential release date of Nov. 2nd, 2095, at his very unlikely age of 143 years old.

1. Ramzi Yousef :

Yousef At the heart of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was Ramzi Ahmed Yousef. The Kuwaiti-born militant was also accused of being involved in the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434 and the Bonjinka plot, a large-scale attack that, if not foiled, could have resulted in the death of Pope John Paul II and passengers of 11 different airlines. Yousef was also allegedly tied to the attempted assassinations of Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan; a planned bombing of the Israeli embassy in Bangkok; and the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Iran that killed 26 people. In 1995, Yousef was arrested and later sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole, plus240 years.

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