John Joseph Gotti: The Teflon Dapper Don

John Jospeh Gotti died while serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.  Since being incarcerated in December of 1990, he spent twenty-three hours a day alone in a small cell and was not allowed any contact with the rest of the prison population.  When doctors diagnosed Gotti with throat cancer in September of 1998, he was brought to the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.  Following surgery and thirty-six radiation treatments, he was transferred back to solitary lockup in Marion, Illinois. Due to the notoriously harsh and inhumane conditions at the prison, inmates are normally brought to the federal penitentiary in Marion for a short period of time, rarely exceeding three years.  John Gotti's confinement at the maximum-security facility amounted to some eight years.  To date, it is the longest stay of an inmate in the prison's history. Tests later revealed that John's cancer was no longer in remission and had reemerged and spread aggressively.  In September of 2000, he was again transported from Marion, to the prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri. John Gotti would die there, nearly two years later, on the 10th of June, 2002. Copyright © 2003 Carmine Scalia.  All rights reserved.

b. Oct. 27, 1940 - d. Jun. 10, 2002

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