As one federal judge noted ... Elected officials advancing tough-on-crime policies have promoted large supermax prisons for their symbolic message, regardless of actual need.

arguing he has continued to hold sway over the gang’s hierarchy from the federal “Supermax” prison in Florence, Colorado, ...

Citing Gutierrez’ influence on the gang from within his prison cell, U.S. Chief District Judge Frank Whitney recommended that Gutierrez go to ADX Florence, the federal supermax prison in Colorado.

following stints at federal prisons in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, and adjacent to the Supermax lockup in Colorado, the records show. Nassar was transferred to Coleman from the Tucson penitentiary in ...

The inmate, identified as Shane McMillan, was previously convicted of assaulting a correctional officer at a federal penitentiary in Louisiana in 2006 and attempting to stab another inmate to ...

In 1995 a federal court examining the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of the Pelican Bay State Prison—a California supermax —found that “many, if not most, inmates in the SHU experience some ...

Bowers’ attorneys have been arguing that the federal Bureau of Prisons would likely consign Bowers to ADX Florence, the notorious Colorado maximum security prison known as Supermax. Two former ...