NBC Chicago reached out to the Bureau of Prisons, which oversees ADX Florence, for comment. We have not heard back at the time of publishing. Hoover, 74, had been a federal inmate since 1998.

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Reopening Alcatraz would also be redundant. The BOP already operates ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Colorado. It holds the federal prison system's most serious and violent offenders ...

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