The New Jersey State Prison, formerly known as Trenton State Prison, is a state men’s facility in Trenton, N.J. operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Opened in 1836, NJSP lists as the oldest prison in the state and one of the oldest correctional institutions in the United States. New Jersey State Prison consists of three separate but interconnected physical plants from three different eras of prison construction that took place on the property — 1798 Penitentiary House, the 1832 Fortress Penitentiary, and the 1982 contemporary prison facility. Approximately 1600 inmates live in the prison located at Third and Federal and Cass streets in Trenton. The population history includes these well-known inmates (courtesy of Wikipedia). Sundiata Acoli: a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army who was sentenced to life in prison in 1974 for murdering a New Jersey state trooper. Max B: Rapper/former member of Byrdgang. Refused a 10-year plea deal hoping to beat the charges and return to rapping. Sentenced to 17 to 20 years for first-degree aggravated manslaughter. Anthony Balaam: serial killer who murdered four sex workers. Richard Fran Biegenwald: serial killer who killed at least nine and is suspected in at least two other murders. Operated in Monmouth County in the early 1980s. Ricardo Cepates: Honduran immigrant, who raped multiple women and young girls in New Brunswick, between 2001 and 2003. Vernon Collins: Baltimore narcotics hit man; the inspiration for the character Wee-Bey Brice of The Wire. Richard Cottingham: serial killer from New Jersey who tortured, killed and dismembered at least six women and possibly many more from 1967 to 1980. Charles Cullen: New Jersey’s most prolific serial killer. Admitted to killing at least 35 people while working as a nurse in numerous New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals. Jerome Dennis: serial killer who murdered five women and teenage girls. Ambrose Harris: In December 1992, Harris carjacked, kidnapped, raped and killed 22-year-old artist, Kristen Huggins in Trenton. In 1996, a jury convicted Harris of murder. He eventually died at NJSP. Bruno Hauptmann executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s toddler son Ralph Hudso: convicted of murdering his wife. He was the final person executed in New Jersey’s history. James Koedatich: was sentenced to death for raping and murdering two women in two months in late 1982. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment [16] Peter Kudzinowski:  serial killer who killed a man and two children. He was executed in 1929. Richard Kuklinski: mafia hit man known as “The Iceman” who was connected to the Gambino crime family. John List killed his entire family. Nicknamed “The Boogeyman of Westfield”. Frank Masini: serial killer who murdered four elderly people. Active around Ocean and Essex counties. Robert O. Marshall: originally sentenced to death for hiring a hit-man from Louisiana to kill his wife, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, known as Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker, was an internet sensation. However, McGillvary was arrested on murder charges on May 16, 2013, for the death of New Jersey attorney Joseph Galfy. In 2019 a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and he was sentenced to 57 years in prison. Joseph Vincent Moriarty: numbers racketeer. Fred Neulander: The Cherry Hill rabbi who paid Len Jenoff and drifter Paul Daniels $18,000 to kill his wife Carol on November 1, 1994. James Allen Paul: sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 47-year-old Virginia Vickory. Additionally believed to have murdered two others in Vermont and Connecticut for which he was not brought to trial. Ahmad Khan Rahimi: suspected perpetrator of the 2016 New York and New Jersey bombings. Richard Rogers: serial killer who murdered and dismembered at least two gay and bisexual men between 1992 and 1993. Edgar Smith: convicted murderer. Leroy Snyder: serial killer who killed seven people within a year in Camden, N.J. Elmed Edward Solly: convicted of manslaughter and best known for his escape from prison and twenty-seven years as a fugitive. Steven Spader: convicted for the home invasion and murder of Kimberly Cates in Mt. Vernon, New Hampshire. Jerry Spraggins: convicted for the 1983 sexual assault and murder of an elderly woman at her apartment in Montclair. Tried, but acquitted, for two similar deaths at that same apartment from 1981 to 1983. Jesse Timmendequas: who was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka which led to the passage of Megan’s Law. Khalil Wheeler-Weaver:  serial killer sentenced to 160 years in prison for killing three women and trying to kill a fourth. (Wikipedia produced most of this list).