“The Supermax is life after death,” said ... Inmates have little contact outside of guards and prison staff. They must wear leg irons, handcuffs and stomach chains when taken outside their ...

Faced with prison population pressures and unwilling to leave expensive supermax facilities half empty, officials in practice expand the criteria for supermax eligibility. Corrections officials ...

The country’s only federal supermax prison, ADX-Florence houses convicted ... which offer limited outside programming (including The Discovery Channel), as well as educational and religious ...

was previously convicted of assaulting a correctional officer at a federal penitentiary in Louisiana in 2006 and attempting to stab another inmate to death at the federal Supermax prison in ...