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'''Thomas Silverstein''', is an [[murderer|American murderer]] who has been incarcerated since 1975. His reputation as a vicious killer is asserted by his murder of three inmates and one federal corrections officer while incarcerated at various locations, and he has been used as a case study for prison systems to analyze the handling of violent prisoners.
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Due to the dangerous nature of Silverstein, officials determined they would keep him locked in handcuffs anytime he was outside his cell. Guards escorted while handcuffed him to the library, rec room, and shower. The guards were not armed, with the notion prisoners would seize weapons given the opportunity. On [[October 22]], [[1983]] at 10:15 am, Silverstein was removed from his solitary cell to be escorted to the shower. Three guards were assigned to this task. During this process, Silverstein slipped his cuffs into the cell adjacent to his, where inmate Randy Gometz unlocked his handcuffs and passed him a [[shank]] fashioned from one of the cell beds. Silverstein stabbed 51-year-old corrections officer [[Merle Eugene Clutts]] 29 times. Both Gometz and Silverstein were tried together, and both received an additional 50 to 150 year sentence (killing of a federal official was not a [[capital offense]] at the time.)
Following this incident, (along with another corrections officer, [[Robert L. Hoffman]], being murdered the same day), USP Marion went into a permanent [[
Silverstein was subsequently moved to [[United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth|USP Leavenworth]] in [[Leavenworth, Kansas]], with his security recorded as "no human contact." Silverstein was placed in a cell located underground.
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==References==
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[[Category:American murderers|Silverstein, Thomas]]
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