NAME: Benjamin Miles Franklin
BACK NUMBER: 89416
LOCATION: General Population, A-Wing, Cell 48
CRIME: Possession of Stolen Goods
SENTENCE: Eight years
TIME LEFT ON SENTENCE: Seven years, two months
ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE IN: Three years, two months

NOTES:
Unable to find work and needing rent money for his wife and daughter, Franklin resorted to criminal means of obtaining it. He was apprehended by local police driving a moving truck full of stolen goods. Unwilling to give up the identities of his associates, Franklin was sent to a maximum-security facility.
Franklin also has a military record which is classified and thus not available to the public.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Inmate has logged visits from Darius Morgan (friend). Inmate is rated Grade C and is approved for work in the Prison kitchen.

NAME: Captain Brad Bellick

Captain Bellick passed the Correctional Officer Exam the autumn after he graduated high school and has been at Fox River Penitentiary ever since. In that time, he has slowly and steadily climbed up the C.O. ranks.

Three years ago, despite several claims of inmate abuse (none of which could ever be corroborated), Bellick was promoted to the position of captain, the highest rank a C.O. can earn. Today, his duties include: aiding in the transportation of death row inmates to the electric chair, supervising Fox River’s prison industries program and overseeing the day-to-day operations of all the inmates in general population.

Bellick is what’s known as a C.O.’s C.O.. His view is there is no such thing as a “good convict,” and the main purpose of a prison is punishment, not rehabilitation.

NAME: John Abruzzi
BACK NUMBER: 81004
LOCATION: Gen Pop, A-Wing, Cell 96
CRIME: Murder (2 counts) Conspiracy commit murder (2 counts)
SENTENCE: 120 years
TIME LEFT ON SENTENCE: 117 yrs, 6 mo.
ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE IN: Inmate is not eligible for parole

Former Chicago mob boss, John Abruzzi, is arguably the most infamous prisoner currently incarcerated at Fox River Penitentiary. That celebrity has translated into power inside the walls. Other inmates, even murderers, defer to Abruzzi in prison-related business. While the correctional officers enforce the rules, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that John Abruzzi runs the prison.

Abruzzi was finally convicted of two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder after decades of eluding punishment from Illinois district attorneys. Otto Fibonacci provided eyewitness testimony at Abruzzi’s trial, which convinced the jury to convict Abruzzi of rubbing out two rival gangsters. Abruzzi subsequently put a hit out on Fibonacci, forcing Fibonacci to enter the Witness Protection Program. Abruzzi has been overheard expressing how desperately he would like to know Fibonacci’s whereabouts.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Inmate has logged visits from Philip Falzone, a “business associate;” Anthony Smallhouse, another “business associate;” Sylvia Abruzzi, his wife; Nicole Abruzzi, his daughter; John Abruzzi, Jr. his son; and Brian Knowlton, business manager. Inmate is rated Grade C and is approved for work on Prison Industries.

NAME: Gus Fiorello
BACK NUMBER: 63139
LOCATION: General Population, A-Wing, Cell 96
CRIME: Possesion of Stolen Goods SENTENCE: Ten years
TIME LEFT ON SENTENCE: 4 years, 10 months
ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE IN: 2 months
NOTES:
On May 11, 2000, Illinois state troopers received a call informing them that a truck full of first generation plasma screen televisions had been hijacked. The truck was equipped with a satellite-enabled tracking device and the police followed the signal to Fiorello’s Italian Market – a known front for Chicago’s Falzone crime family. A search of the premises yielded over half a million dollars worth of high end electronics.

Fiorello, long believed to be a Captain for Falzone reporting directly to John Abruzzi, was offered immunity all charges if he agreed to give them information that would leave to indictments of Abruzzi or Falzone. Fiorello disavowed any knowledge of any mob related activity.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Inmate has logged visits from Philip Falzone, a “business associate;” and John Abruzzi, another “business associate.” This inmate is rated Grade D and is NOT approved for work in Prison

NAME: Theodore Bagwell
BACK NUMBER: 89632
LOCATION: General Population, A-Wing, Cell 16
CRIME: Six counts of Kidnapping, Rape and First Degree Murder
SENTENCE: Incarceration for the rest of his natural life
TIME LEFT ON SENTENCE: The rest of his natural life
ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE IN:Inmate is not eligible for parole


NOTES:

Theodore Bagwell (or T-Bag, as he calls himself) is one of the most dangerous predators at Fox River Penitentiary. Not surprisingly, he has barely known a life outside of confinement. After multiple citations for vandalism and cruelty to animals, a ten year-old Bagwell was caught attempting to burn down the home of his fourth grade teacher and was sent to juvenile hall. It was there that Bagwell was first introduced to the Alliance for Purity, a white supremacist gang.

As Bagwell grew up, his crimes grew more serious. They included assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder. For these crimes, Bagwell was sentenced to Alabama’s Donaldson maximum security prison where he immediately assumed a leadership position in the Alliance for Purity.

Upon Bagwell’s release four years ago, he immediately went back to his life of crime, including a rape and murder spree across Alabama that included several teenage victims and landed him among America's most wanted criminals. Once captured, his attorney petitioned for Bagwell to be incarcerated out of state, for fear of re-establishing power in the Alliance for Purity. When Bagwell landed in Fox River ten months ago, its chapter of the Alliance was non-existent. Thanks to the charismatic “T-Bag,” now it is one of the most powerful gangs in the prison.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Inmate is known to be affiliated with the Alliance for Purity Gang. Inmate has a documented relationship with Jason Buchanan (also known as Maytag) Seth Hoffner (also known as Cherry). Inmate has logged visits with Susan Hollander, and is rated Grade C and is approved for work on Prison Industries.

AME: Fernando Sucre
BACK NUMBER: 89775
LOCATION: General Population, A-Wing, Cell 40
CRIME: One count of Aggravated Robbery
SENTENCE: Five years
TIME LEFT ON SENTENCE: Four years, one month.
ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE IN: One year, four months

NOTES:

Fernando Sucre was born and raised in Chicago. And while he was no stranger to the streets, he managed to keep himself out of significant legal trouble for most of his life.

That was until one night, when Sucre held up a liquor store with an unloaded firearm. The police were on the scene before he had a chance to flee; he was arrested immediately.

Since coming to Fox River, Sucre has been a model prisoner. He has expressed interest in serving the shortest possible sentence so he can get out and be with his girlfriend, Maricruz Delgado.

Sucre met Maricruz three years ago and they dated for two years prior to Sucre’s incarceration. Six months ago, Maricruz moved to New York after accepting a job as a buyer for a major Manhattan fashion retailer.

A month later, Sucre’s cousin Hector also moved to New York. He told his friends that his company transferred him, but those who know him best suspect he requested the transfer so that he could be closer to Maricruz.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:

Inmate has logged visits from Maricruz Delgado. Inmate is approved for monthly conjugal visits with Maricruz Delgado. Inmate is rated Grade C and is approved for work on Prison Industries.

NAME: Michael Scofield
BACK NUMBER: 94941
LOCATION: General Population, A-Wing, Cell 40
CRIME: Armed Robbery
SENTENCE: Five years
TIME LEFT ON SENTENCE: Five years
ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE IN: Two years, six months

NOTES:
Michael Scofield’s educational background leaves question as to why such a man would commit the crime he did. Beginning with an immaculate record at Morton East High School, he would later graduate Magna Cum Laude with a B.S., civil engineering and M.S., civil engineering, from the Loyola University of Chicago.

At the time of his arrest, Scofield was employed as a structural engineer at the prestigious firm of Middleton, Maxwell and Schaum located in Chicago, Il.

Inmate Michael Scofield, with no prior convictions, was convicted of armed robbery after attempting to steal over half a million dollars from the downtown Chicago branch of United Savings Bank. At the trial, Scofield pled no contest and requested to serve time in the Level One facility closest to his Chicago home.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Inmate suffers from Type I Diabetes and currently, this inmate has logged visits with Veronica Donovan, his attorney. Inmate is approved for monthly conjugal visits with Nika Volek, his wife. This inmate is rated Grade C and is approved for work on Prison Industries.

NAME: Charles Westmoreland
BACK NUMBER: 21562
LOCATION: General Population, A-Wing, Cell 13
CRIME: Aggravated Vehicular Hijacking, Vehicular Invasion, Involuntary Manslaughter and Reckless Homicide
SENTENCE: Sixty years to life
TIME LEFT ON SENTENCE: The rest of his natural life
ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE IN: Twenty six years
NOTES:
Charles Westmoreland is one of Fox River’s longest tenured inmates, currently serving his twenty eighth year.

Westmoreland was originally tried and convicted in Douglas, Arizona and served the first two years of his sentence in the Arizona State Prison at Florence. Because of budget restraints, Arizona had to outsource some of its inmates to other states. As a result, Westmoreland was transferred to Fox River in 1973.

Immediately upon his incarceration in Arizona, there were whispers that Westmoreland was, in fact, the legendary plane hijacker DB Cooper. In 1971, Cooper notoriously held a 727 full of passengers ransom until he was paid $1.5 million, then parachuted from the plane into the woods of the Pacific Northwest, never to be seen again. While there was never enough proof to indict Westmoreland for Cooper’s crime, there was just enough circumstantial evidence to suspect him. And that suspicion followed him to Fox River.

It isn’t easy to be an inmate whom others suspect to be a millionaire. Other prisoners constantly harass him. He’s been threatened, assaulted, one time he suffered a broken nose from another inmate who tried to extort money from him. In recent years, the physical threats have subsided. Part of that has to do with his advanced age. But after three decades of steadfast denials, many inmates have come to the simple conclusion that Charles Westmoreland is not, in fact, D.B. Cooper.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Inmate has permission to keep grey cat (Marilyn) as it was grandfathered in before Fox River prohibited pet ownership.

NAME: Seth Hoffner (DECEASED)
BACK NUMBER: 94989
LOCATION: General Population, A-Wing, Cell 16
CRIME: Vehicular Invasion, Kidnapping
SENTENCE: Eight years
TIME LEFT ON SENTENCE: Eight years
ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE IN: Four years


NOTES: 18 year old Hoffner was bored of his cookie-cutter suburban adolescence and always wanted something more. He wanted a life of thrills and excitement.

One night, while walking home from a friend’s house, he found that life. Hoffner saw a woman unpacking groceries from the trunk of her car, and she had left her driver’s side door open. Acting on an impulse he had always repressed, Hoffner snuck up to the car, jumped in and sped away.

Hoffner barely traveled a mile before noticing the two year old boy asleep in the back seat. Just as he was about to turn the car around, he saw the police in his rear view mirror.
The Beardstown district attorney, looking to make a name for himself, ignored Hoffner’s clean record and successfully prosecuted him to the fullest extent of the law.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Inmate has prison alias of “Cherry” and has a known relationship with Theodore Bagwell (T-Bag). This inmate is graded D and is not approved for work on prison industries. Hoffner recently hanged himself by stepping of the second tier of A-Wing with a bed sheet tied around his neck.

NAME: Warden Henry Pope

Conventional wisdom says that prisons are built to punish offenders. Warden Pope does not subscribe to that school of thought.

Warden Pope has been in charge of Fox River Penitentiary for the past eighteen years with an aim towards rehabilitation, so that when his inmates are released, they will be less likely to commit another crime. For that purpose, he has established an exhaustive prison industries program to help his inmates gain real world training in fields as diverse as painting, landscaping and various industrial vocations. Warden Pope also runs an award-winning educational program to help his inmates gain high school equivalency diplomas and, in rare cases, even bachelor degrees. And as he nears retirement, he seeks a successor who would run Fox River in a similar manner.

Warden Pope and his wife, Judith, have been married thirty nine years.

LINCOLN BURROWS

ALIAS: Linc the Sink
BACK NUMBER: 79238
LOCATION: Death Row, Cell 18
CRIME: First degree murder, Aggravated discharge of firearm
SENTENCE: Death by electrocution
TIME LEFT ON SENTENCE: 1 day
ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE IN: Inmate is not eligible for parole

NOTES:
Lincoln Burrows dropped out of Morgan Park High School in the 10th grade, and immediately found himself in trouble with the law. Prior convictions include two months for Theft; three months for Criminal Damage to Property; six months for Battery; Six months for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia; ten months for Battery.

Burrows pled not guilty and was convicted on all counts in connection with the death of Terrence Steadman, the brother of U.S. Vice President Carolyn Reynolds.

On May 12th, Lincoln’s execution was stayed due to the appearance of new evidence. His execution was rescheduled for May 26th and his attorney Veronica Donovan is currently investigating these leads.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Inmate has logged visits with Michael Scofield his brother, Tim Giles his attorney, LJ Burrows his son, Lisa Rix his son’s mother, and Sue Parsons, a reporter with The Headline Press.

Despite dating youthful offender Lincoln Burrows all throughout high school, Veronica Donovan never let the street life of Cicero, Illinois seduce her. An over-achiever, she received a full academic scholarship to the University of Illinois in Champaign where she graduated with a B.A. in political science, then went on to earn her juris doctorate from Baylor Law School.

After graduating from Baylor, Donovan moved back to Chicago to practice real estate law at the offices of Glazer and Ross.

Despite her success, Donovan never forgot her roots. Although she had no experience in criminal law, she recently defended childhood friend Michael Scofield against a charge of armed robbery after he refused the assistance of all court appointed attorneys.

Donovan is currently working with Nick Savrinn in an attempt to exonerate Lincoln Burrows of first degree murder charges.

NAME: David Apolskis
BACK NUMBER: 95012
LOCATION: General Population, A-Wing, Cell 13
CRIME: Grand Larceny
SENTENCE: Two years
TIME LEFT ON SENTENCE: Two years
ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE IN:One year

NOTES:

Apolskis has always had great hands. In junior high, they helped him win a starting job as a wide receiver on the school’s football team. But in ninth grade, Apolskis was deemed academically ineligible to participate in athletics. That’s when he found a more profitable use for his hands.

Apolskis became a master pickpocket. From the ages of 14 through 19, he swiped over 200 wallets and 150 watches. Those statistics are even more impressive considering the fact that he spent eight of those months in juvenile hall on two separate convictions. But Apolskis got a little too ambitious when he tried to lift a wallet from an off duty police officer. He was immediately apprehended and when the cops searched his apartment, they discovered a valuable baseball card collection (appraised at over three hundred thousand dollars) that had been reported missing two days prior. He was sentenced to two years at Fox River.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Inmate is rated Grade D and is not approved for work on Prison Industries.

DR. SARA TANCREDI

NOTES:
From an early age, Sara knew that she wanted to be a doctor. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, she always hoped to work in a hospital. However, after achieving her goal and earning a medical degree, Sara’s career was jeopardized by her drug abuse problem.

After countless relapses, Sara was finally able to get clean with the help of group therapy sessions at Narcotics Anonymous. Being a traditional doctor was no longer enough for her and she decided that she must follow a more humanitarian path.

As one of the few doctors on staff, Sara is responsible for everything from administering physicals to performing emergency surgery. Though Sara doesn’t think twice about the risks she puts herself in every day, it is a constant source of stress for her father, Illinois Governor “Frontier Justice” Frank Tancredi. That, along with their vastly different political beliefs, has cooled their relationship significantly in recent years.

William Fichtner returns for his third season on PRISON BREAK. Fichtner was most recently seen on the big screen in the comedies "The Amateurs" co-starring Jeff Bridges and "Blades of Glory" with Will Ferrell. Previously, Fichtner co-starred in the Academy Award-winning film "Crash," from writer-director Paul Haggis, for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for "Best Ensemble Cast in a Feature Film." Fichtner also starred opposite Adam Sandler in the remake of the comedy "The Longest Yard." Moving between television and feature films, Fichtner was also seen in the critically acclaimed film "Empire Falls" with Paul Newman and Ed Harris. Fichtner's additional television credits include "The West Wing" and "Invasion."
Fichtner had two films premiere at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival: Rodrigo Garcia's "Nine Lives" and DreamWorks' "The Chumscrubber." Additional film credits include Ridley Scott's "Black Hawk Down"; "What's The Worst Thing That Could Happen"; Wolfgang Peterson's "The Perfect Storm"; "Drowning Mona"; "Ultraviolet" and "Equilibrium" for writer-director Kurt Wimmer; "Passion of Mind"; "Armageddeon"; Michael Mann's "Heat"; "Contact"; Doug Liman's "Go"; "Strange Days"; Steven Soderbergh's "The Underneath"; "Switchback"; Agnieszka Holland's "Julie Walking Home"; "The Settlement" alongside John C. Reilly; Kevin Spacey's directorial debut, "Albino Alligator"; and the independent film "First Snow" with Guy Pearce.
As a member of the Circle Repertory Theatre, Fichtner won critical acclaim for his role in "The Fiery Furnace," directed by Norman Rene. He has also appeared on stage in "Raft of the Medusa" at the Minetta Lane Theatre, "The Years" at the Manhattan Theatre Club, "Clothes for a Summer Hotel" at the Williamstown Theatre festival and "Machinal" at The Public Theatre.