which include supermax penitentiaries and minimum security camps. The cost to American taxpayers is more than $8 billion a year. Tonight, we will take you inside the Federal Bureau of Prisons, an ...

In 1995 a federal court examining the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of the Pelican Bay State Prison—a California supermax —found that “many, if not most, inmates in the SHU experience some ...

The idea of supermax prisons was appealing—or at least tacitly ... human rights treaties that are binding on state as well as federal officials. These treaties, including the International ...

More than 40 US states run "super-maximum security" prisons for particularly violent or ill-behaved convicts. But the federal government runs only one "Supermax:" the notorious US Penitentiary ...

Citing Gutierrez’ influence on the gang from within his prison cell, U.S. Chief District Judge Frank Whitney recommended that Gutierrez go to ADX Florence, the federal supermax prison in Colorado.

"Legally the conditions inside Supermax prisons are constitutional ... degree of deprivation is unconstitutional." Federal Bureau of Prisons vs. the U.N. There is increasing pressure, however ...

Aug. 16 - Timothy McVeigh's first day in the federal government's high security "Supermax" prison didn't go according to plan. A conference call scheduled with his lawyers had to be canceled because ...