When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to former FBI supervisory special agent, the 10 violent criminals who escaped from a New Orleans jail last Friday likely had help on the inside.

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 ...

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 ...