When inmates arrive at the United States Penitentiary Administrative-Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, it immediately becomes clear: ADX, the nation’s most secure Supermax prison ...
James Silvia, who has twice escaped from the state prison, will get a parole hearing. He once covered himself in hand lotion and slipped out a window of the supermax prison.
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 ...
President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and ...
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 ...
The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...
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 ...
Nayib Bukele meets with US secretary of state Marco Rubio as Trump attempts to deport large numbers of ‘dangerous’ offenders ...