Folsom State Prison - Notable Prisoners

Notable Prisoners

  • Sonny Barger of the Hells Angels
  • Edward Bunker
  • Eldridge Cleaver
  • Joseph Gamsky, aka Joe Hunt, of the Billionaire Boys Club
  • Glen Stewart Godwin, whose escape from Folsom earned him a spot on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list
  • Cameron Hooker, convicted of the Kidnapping of Colleen Stan
  • Rick James, musician
  • Edmund Kemper, the co-ed killer
  • Suge Knight, owner of Death Row Records
  • Timothy Leary
  • Charles Manson
  • Erik Menendez
  • James Mitose
  • Ed Morrell, accomplice to the Evans-Sontag railroad robbers of the 1890s
  • Bobby Purify (Original singer of "I'm Your Puppet")
  • Shorty Rossi, star of the Animal Planet show Pit Boss
  • Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman who while an Assemblyman had posed as a prisoner to investigate conditions.
  • Glen Sherley, musician
  • Danny Trejo, actor

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