# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-silverstein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:17:31.501Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-silverstein"
name: "Thomas Silverstein"
slug: "thomas-silverstein"
description: "Thomas Edward Silverstein was an American criminal who spent the last 42 years of his life in prison after being convicted of three separate murders, with a fourth murder conviction being overturned and Silverstein being implicated in a fifth, while imprisoned for armed robbery. Silverstein spent the last 36 years of his life in solitary confinement for killing corrections officer Merle Clutts at the Marion Penitentiary in Illinois. Prison authorities described him as a brutal killer and a former leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Silverstein maintained that the dehumanizing conditions inside the prison system contributed to the three murders he committed. He was the longest-held prisoner in solitary confinement within the Bureau of Prisons at the time of his death. Correctional officers refused to talk to Silverstein out of respect for Clutts."
tagline: "American murderer (1952-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Silverstein.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1952-02-04"
deathDate: "2019-05-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.452876376988984
  historical:           7.440332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "טאמעס סילווערסטין"
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    title: "Thomas Silverstein"
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    title: "Թոմաս Սիլվերսթեյն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thomas Silverstein"
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    title: "Thomas Silverstein"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump