[3] A large portion of the prisoner population consists of "hard core" felons who committed violent crimes, such as murder.

In 2004, Spring Creek inmate Carl Abuhl, already incarcerated for another murder, killed his cellmate Gregory Beaudoin.

Carlin was the alleged co-conspirator in the case of Mechele Linehan, a former stripper convicted in the death of her former fiancé Kent Leppink.

[7] In July 2015 a distraught woman from North Pole approached the prison gates with a gun and demanded that "murderers" be freed.

Numerous Spring Creek inmates were profiled, including Carl Abuhl, John Bright and Cordell Boyd.