Supermax has an ultra-secure unit, so-called “Range 13,” a four-cell wing in the prison’s disciplinary unit, where prisoners have virtually no human contact.

At Supermax, the soundproofed cells were designed so inmates cannot make eye contact with each other. Each 7-by-12-feet cell has a long, narrow window looking out at other prison walls or the ...

More than 30 supermax facilities are operated by states in addition to the federal government’s own supermax facility in Colorado. Looking back, supermax prisons have taken on an outsized role ...

Inmates spend 23 hours a day in small cells with no view of the outside world at the U.S. Supermax prison. ... He is one of the notorious criminals living in the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

The so-called “Supermax” prison in Colorado just might be the most secure federal facility in the United States. At least, that’s the lore surrounding the institution that has come to be ...

The Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX), better known as the Supermax federal prison, in Florence, Colorado. the New York Times on Sunday caught our eye.

TYPICAL FACILITIES IN A SUPERMAX PRISON CELL 1. Typical cell sized 7ft x 12ft (3.5x2m) with small slit window 2. Shower works on timer 3. ... Zacarias Moussaoui looks set to live out the rest of his ...

Notorious Colorado Supermax Loses Two of Its Most Infamous Residents. Ted Kaczynski, ... was found dead in his cell at the federal supermax prison in Florence on Monday, June 5.

Before his transfer to the prison medical facility, he had been held in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years ...

Two inmates at ADX Florence were sentenced for a 2021 inmate death; one for voluntary manslaughter, the other for involuntary ...