Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the officially named U.S. Penitentiary Florence Administrative ...

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 ...

54 Even prisoners at ADX-Florence enjoy certain privileges that are denied detainees at Guantanamo. The country’s only federal supermax prison, ADX-Florence houses convicted criminals believed ...

Rejon Taylor told Newsweek that he had received notice he would be transferred to ADX Florence, a "supermax" facility known ...

Located in the United States, ADX Florence ... the proximity of the sea and the land made prisoners live in infrahuman conditions' Black Dolphin Prison in Russia is known as one of the world ...

ADX Florence inmates are held in "control units," which function like prisons inside of a prison. "It's like a self-contained area within a self-contained area within a self-contained area ...

Current ADX inmates include convicted "Unabomber" Ted ... Guzman described his 30 months at the MCC prison to US Federal Judge Brian Cogan as around the clock "emotional, psychological and mental ...