Larry Nassar was stabbed at Coleman federal penitentiary. Who else has been at the Florida prison?

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A small Florida city once known as the "Cabbage Capital of the World" has now been in the spotlight for holding some of the nation's most infamous criminals.

USP Coleman II, a high-security U.S. penitentiary, sits about 10 minutes southeast of Coleman in Sumter County and houses over 1,214 male inmates, including the former Olympic sports doctor accused by hundreds of sexual abuse, Larry Nassar.

Completed in 2004 as an expansion project, the prison is a part of the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex. Other facilities at the complex include the low-security federal correctional institute FCI Coleman Low and the medium-security FCI Coleman Medium.

The complex made headlines recently as Nassar was stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another prison inmate on Sunday.

A statement by the Florida Board of Prisons obtained by the USA TODAY Network did not identify the individuals involved in the incident but confirmed it occurred, as well as shared that lifesaving measures were immediately initiated and an inmate was transported by emergency medical personnel to a local hospital "for further treatment and evaluation."

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Here are some of Coleman's most notable inmates over the years:

Larry Nassar

Lawrence Gerard Nassar, 59, is a former sports medicine osteopathic physician and, for 18 years, the team doctor of the United States women's national gymnastics team. Nassar had an extensive history of sexual abuse accusations spanning from the early 1990s to the 2010s.

After a testimonial from former gymnast Rachael Denhollander in the Indianapolis Star detailing her sexual abuse from Nassar, a larger, months-long scandal of doctors, trainers, and coaches abusing young, often underage gymnasts. USA Gymnastics cut ties with Nassar and MSU fired him.

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2018 file photo, Larry Nassar, former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts, appears in Eaton County Court in Charlotte, Mich. Thirteen sexual assault victims of Nassar are seeking $10 million each from the FBI, claiming a bungled investigation by agents led to more abuse by the sports doctor, lawyers said Thursday, April 21, 2022. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP, File) ORG XMIT: MILAN502

More than 265 gymnasts came forward, detailing for reporters, Congress, and the courts the abuse they suffered. At his sentencing 156 survivors gave emotional impact statements, telling Nassar to his face what his abuse had done to their lives.

Nassar pleaded guilty to federal pornography charges — according to the FBI, over 37,000 images of child sexual abuse material and video of Nassar reportedly molesting underage girls — and to multiple child sexual abuse charges in two Michigan counties.

James "Whitey" Bulger

James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger was the boss of the White Hill Gang, a largely Irish mob in Boston from the 1970s through the 1990s.

According to Mob Museum, Bulger was notorious for his readiness to use violence and especially murder to achieve his criminal goals, attracted to the lifestyle early in life with his first arrest at 14 years old. He was in and out of jail for various assault and theft charges, with his first stint in federal prison in 1956.

After being released, he joined a gang during a time when rival factions were at war. According to certain biographers, Bulger later switched sides and killed the leader of his former gang. By 1972, Bulger was among the top gangsters in Boston.

Unknown to others at the time, Bulger had been an FBI informant since at least 1974. Throughout the years, Bulger was said to be a top criminal who was responsible for some of the most vicious murders in Boston.

When Bulger was informed that the FBI was coming to arrest multiple members of the gang, he fled and spent the next 16 years on the run as a fugitive. He and his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, ultimately were arrested in 2011 outside a townhouse in Santa Monica, California.

After his conviction in 2013, Bulger served time in several federal prisons, with the longest stretch in Coleman. On Oct. 30, 2018, Bulger, then 89 years old, was killed just hours after he arrived at the Hazelton federal prison in West Virginia when fellow inmates beat him to death using a padlock stuffed inside a sock.

Robert Allen Stanford

Texas tycoon Robert Allen Stanford made history for running the second biggest investor fraud in U.S. history, convicted of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.

Stanford, 73, was convicted in 2012 of selling $7 billion in fraudulent certificates of deposit (CDs) from his offshore bank, Stanford International Bank, on the island of Antigua in an international Ponzi scheme. Stanford was first charged in 2009 by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

He received a 110-year prison sentence in his ruling and has faced further indictments from the SEC in the United States. While in prison, it has been reported that he has been attacked by various inmates. Despite nearly 18,000 people still not receiving their money back, he has consistently claimed that he is innocent and has been framed.

Stephen Caracappa

A former New York City police detective, later known as one of the two "Mob cops," Stephen Caracappa committed various illegal activities on behalf of the Five Families of the American Mafia.

Caracappa and fellow detective, Louis Eppolito were indicted on charges of racketeering conspiracy for a pattern of murders, kidnappings, witness tampering, obstruction of justice, money laundering, and narcotics dealing with mobsters and mob associates, spanning from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s.

Both men were convicted in 2006 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009. Caracappa died in 2017 at the age of 75 due to cancer.

Leonard Peltier

A Native American activist and a member of the American Indian Movement, Peltier faced a controversial trial in 1975 after shooting two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Peltier became involved in a variety of causes championing Native American rights in the 1960s, later heading to South Dakota to help reduce violence as factional tensions soured.

Leonard Peltier is shown in a February 1986 file photo.
Leonard Peltier is shown in a February 1986 file photo.

On June 26, 1975, Special Agents Ronald Arthur Williams and Jack Ross Coler were on the Jumping Bull Ranch to seek out another suspect when a shootout between the agents and the occupants of a vehicle broke out. Peltier and two other AIM members were camping at the site when the shooting happened. They were arrested and charged with the murder of the two FBI agents.

Peltier fled to Canada, convinced that he could not receive a fair trial in the United States, while Butler and Robideau were tried in a federal court and found not guilty of the murders. Peltier eventually was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and later extradited to the United States.

He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment and has been imprisoned since 1977.

Benjamin Arellano Felix

Felix was the lead figure in the powerful and violent Tijuana Cartel, responsible for smuggling large quantities of marijuana, methamphetamine, and cocaine from Mexico into the United States.

In the 1970s, his family relocated to Tijuana, where they established a smuggling operation with the help of Cuban cocaine trafficker Alberto Sicilia Falcon. The brothers began smuggling consumer electronics, Japanese jeans, and marijuana to the United States using a fleet of trucks.

They remained untouchable for several decades. However, he was arrested by Mexican authorities in March 2002 who traced his oldest daughter to him. He had a $2 million bounty for his arrest.

Gabul Abdullah Ali

Somali pirate Gabul Abdullah Ali was sentenced to life in prison back in 2011 after attacking a Navy ship and holding a Danish family hostage on the coast of Somalia.

"I'm being judged on the basis of something I did not commit," Gabul Abdullah Ali said during the sentencing, which was the harshest sentence yet for accused pirates.

According to past CBC reports, the federal prosecution in Norfolk, Va., relied on rarely used 19th-century maritime laws to convict Ali and five other Somali pirates. It was the first piracy case to go to trial since the Civil War.

It was reported that the pirates moved the captive Danish family onto a ship off the Somali coast and threatened to kill them if further attempts were made to free them. Five soldiers were killed in the attempt to rescue the Danish couple, their three children, and two Danish crew members.

The five men also were sentenced to an additional 80 years in prison on other charges related to a 2010 attack on the USS Nicholas.

Amine El Khalifi

Khalifi was an al-Qaida sympathizer arrested by the FBI in 2012 for plotting to carry out a suicide bombing on the United States Capitol.

“Amine El-Khalifi today admitted that he attempted to carry out a suicide attack on the U.S. Capitol as part of what he believed would be a terrorist operation,” Assistant Attorney General Monaco said back in 2012. “I thank all those responsible for ensuring that El Khalifi’s violent plans never came to fruition.”

Khalifi pleaded guilty to one count of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against U.S. property, namely, the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. As part of the plea agreement, the United States and El Khalifi agreed that a sentence within a range of 25 years to 30 years of incarceration was the appropriate disposition of this case.

C. A. Bridges, USA TODAY NETWORK Florida, contributed to this story.

This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: Larry Nassar, Whitey Bulger: Here's who's been behind bars at Coleman