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What's life like inside ‘Supermax' prison where Larry Hoover spent 2 decades
When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have ...
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Murderers Whose Death Sentences Were Commuted by Biden Sue Over Trump’s ‘Cruel’ Plan To Send Them to Notorious Supermax
Most supermax inmates are men who have been so incorrigibly violent inside the prison system that they must be kept in a highly controlled environment where it’s impossible for them to harm other ...
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Inmates Fight Trump Admin's Efforts to Move Them To 'Oppressive' Supermax
This photo taken on February 13, 2019 shows a view of the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, also known as the ADX or "Supermax," in Florence, Colorado. This photo taken ...
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It's time to build Britain's own supermax prison - and THIS is what it would look like: Two of our most infamous inmates have just savagely attacked guards... we must make a ...
No wonder Prison Officers’ Association chairman Mark Fairhurst is calling for the construction of a US-style ‘supermax’ facility to house Britain’s most ... ADX Florence is wryly known to ...
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Reopening Alcatraz Is an Expensive, Unnecessary Pipe Dream
It holds the federal prison system's most serious and violent offenders ... extreme isolation on inmates' mental health. The problem, it would seem, isn't that ADX Florence is too soft, but ...