The U.S.’s highest-security “supermax” prison is ADX Florence, a Colorado facility operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It could be the new home of the Mexican cartel leader El Chapo.

On the FBI's list of Top 10 Most Wanted at one point, Kaczynski, now 72, was apprehended largely because his brother, David, suspected he was the Unabomber. He's serving a life sentence at the ADX. 7.

With an average of 5 people per inmate, its 700 residents have killed a total of 3500 people, putting Black Dolphin Prison at 22 on the list of the 25 most dangerous prisons in the world. 21. ADX ...

The plight of inmates in the world’s most dangerous prisons reminds us that incarceration, while intended to serve justice and protect society, must balance security with basic human dignity.

ADX Florence, opened in 1994, houses more than 400 of the federal Bureau of Prison's "most violent, disruptive and escape-prone inmates," according to the BOP. Guzman, ...

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, is built ...

He’s joined by some of the world’s most dangerous criminals at the USP Florence ADMAX – known colloquially as the ADX, Supermax or Alcatraz of the Rockies – the highest-security federal ...

You don't get to be an inmate at ADX-Florence, America's most famous and secure prison, without having first achieved a measure of infamy in the nation's penal system. Name a convicted terrorist ...

Federal Bureau of Prisons, suggests that America is failing to adequately treat its mentally ill prisoners and, worse, that the punitive prison methods employed at ADX/Supermax are actually making ...

The prison currently houses around 1,300 inmates, and has notoriously been one of America's most ruthless prisons. (The electric chair was used for executions until it was banned in 1972.) ...

This article was published in collaboration with Vice.. Not many people ever make it out of the ADX. Officially called the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence — and ...

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, is built ...