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In 2009, former President Barack Obama’s books “Dreams of My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope” were banned at a Colorado supermax prison facility until there was a public outcry.

The Alcatraz of the Rockies, officially known as the United States Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum (ADX), is the ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, this romanticized version of grizzled criminals going away for life in a supermax prison is inaccurate and contributes to an unhealthy prison culture. Supermax prisons increased in ...