The Pentagon is readying orders for the deployment of at least 1,000 additional active-duty troops to bolster President ...
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Elected officials advancing tough-on-crime policies have promoted large supermax prisons for their symbolic message, regardless of actual need. Fearful of being accused of "coddling inmates" or ...
Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba has cost US taxpayers at least $13bn to run – it currently houses 15 prisoners. Closing time is ...
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 ...
Virginia’s top investigatory body is turning its attention to Red Onion State Prison after alarming reports of self-harm and poor conditions at the supermax facility in Wise County. Andrea ...
Two of the Isis Beatles are in fear of a “fate worse than the death penalty” if convicted and sentenced to life in a US maximum security prison after being extradited. Alexanda Kotey and El ...
the notorious Colorado maximum security prison known as Supermax. Two former Bureau of Prisons officials who now offer paid testimony, principally for defendants, painted a picture on Wednesday ...
More than 40 US states run "super-maximum security" prisons for particularly violent or ill-behaved convicts. But the federal government runs only one "Supermax:" the notorious US Penitentiary ...