Attica Correctional Facility - Notable Inmates

Notable Inmates

  • David Berkowitz, better known as Son of Sam, serial killer who confessed to killing six people and wounding several others in New York City in the late 1970s. Since becoming a Christian, Berkowitz has stated he does not want to be paroled and should pay for the sins he has committed. Berkowitz is currently housed at Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, New York.
  • H. Rap Brown, Black Panther Party leader, served a sentence in Attica from 1971 to 1976.
  • Mark David Chapman, who murdered John Lennon on December 8, 1980. Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life and imprisoned in 1981, having been denied parole seven times amidst campaigns against his release. Chapman is currently housed at the Wende Correctional Facility.
  • Edward Cummiskey, Westies hitman during the 1970s.
  • Dean Faiello, unlicensed physician who was charged in the manslaughter of Filipina-American banker Maria Cruz in 2003.
  • Jimmy Caci, a captain in the Los Angeles crime family spent eight years in Attica during the 1970s.
  • Colin Ferguson, who murdered six people on the Long Island Rail Road (AAR: LIRR) in 1993. Ferguson is serving multiple life sentences.
  • Kendall Francois, who murdered eight women, some of which were prostitutes and stored their bodies in his home in Poughkeepsie, New York. Francois is serving a life sentence without parole.
  • Sam Melville, notorious as "mad bomber" in 1960s, a Weather Underground member killed by New York State Police troopers during a riot on September 13, 1971.
  • Willie Sutton, who robbed 100 banks from the late 1920s to 1952.

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