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.

There are currently more than twenty thousand prisoners in the United States, nearly two percent of the prison population ... time they leave their cells. Assignment to supermax housing is ...

Prisoners in US supermaxes are generally held alone in small, often windowless cells with solid steel ... of the Pelican Bay State Prison—a California supermax —found that “many, if not ...

At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and ...