President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he's ordered the federal government to rebuild and reopen the infamous Alcatraz ...

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 ...

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 ...

The attacks have led to calls for Britain’s most dangerous inmates to be housed in US ... The only federal supermax prison in the US is ADX Florence in Colorado, nicknamed the Alcatraz of ...

to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.” Trump’s directive to rebuild and reopen the long-shuttered penitentiary was the latest salvo in his effort to overhaul how and where ...

He is charged with murdering an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary-Florence, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Fremont County ... and the prosecution of violent crime,” noting that capital ...

Former death row inmates who had their sentences ... they were heading to the ADX prison in Florence, Colorado, where they would face “the most oppressive conditions in the entire federal ...

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 ...

the notorious penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay that last held inmates more than 60 ... Alcatraz will house the nation's "most ruthless and violent Offenders." It will "serve as ...

to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.” Trump’s directive to rebuild and reopen the long-shuttered penitentiary was the latest salvo in his effort to overhaul how and where ...

to house America's most ruthless and violent Offenders," he wrote, adding: "The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE." WPI Inflation Drops To 0.85% In April 2025 ...