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54: 82: 961: 486:, as well as a toilet that shuts off if blocked, a shower that runs on a timer to prevent flooding, and a sink lacking a potentially dangerous tap. Cells are also fitted with polished steel mirrors bolted to the wall, electric lights that can be shut off or dimmed by the inmate, a radio, and a television that shows recreational, educational, and religious programming, along with 50 mainstream channels and Netflix content. 947: 975: 442:. Left alone with no guard supervision in the prison yard on the morning of April 21, 2005, Rivera and Santiago were videotaped brutally beating and stomping Torres to death. Rivera pled not guilty due to self-defense. Prosecutors intended to seek the death penalty against Rivera and Santiago, but they were both given life sentences for the murders. Today, both Rivera and Santiago remain at ADX. 459: 451: 546:. The two Intermediate Units house "step-down" inmates, who can earn transfer to another institution if they remain incident-free while housed in the unit. This is the only unit in ADX where inmates secure themselves in their own cells, can walk freely in their range, and associate with other inmates. From there, inmates will typically be transferred to the supermax step-down unit in 40: 490:
swimming pool, also designed to prevent them from knowing their location in the facility. The pit is large enough only for a prisoner to walk ten steps in a straight line or thirty-one steps in a circle. Correctional officers generally deliver food to the cells. Inmates transferred to Florence from other prisons may be allowed to eat in a shared dining room.
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After at least one year, depending on their conduct, inmates are gradually allowed out for longer periods. The long-term goal is to keep them at Florence for no more than three years and then to transfer them to a less restrictive prison to serve the remainder of their sentences. According to a 1998
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The facility houses inmates at six differing security levels: General Population Units ("Delta", "Echo", "Fox", and "Golf" Units), the Special Housing Unit (SHU), the Special Security Unit ("H" Unit), the Control Unit, Intermediate/Transitional Units ("Kilo" and "Joker" Units), and Range 13. Many of
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for 23 hours a day. During their hour outside the cell, which can occur at any time of day or night, they are kept under restraint (handcuffed, shackled, or both). The hour outside of the cell is for exercise and a phone call if they have earned the privilege. Their diet is restricted to ensure that
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proposed a new facility to isolate the most dangerous, uncontrollable inmates for security and safety. Under his leadership, USP Marion was operated in permanent lockdown for 23 years, serving as a model for ADX as a control unit prison. Carlson believed that the prison would hold criminals who were
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The facility is best known for housing inmates who have been deemed too dangerous, too high-profile, or too great a security risk for even maximum-security prisons. For example, Joseph Romano was sentenced to life in federal prison for plotting to murder the judge and federal prosecutor who helped
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needed a unit designed specifically for the secure housing of those prisoners most capable of extreme violence toward staff or other inmates, as well as inmates deemed too high-profile or too great of a security risk for even a maximum security prison. The inmates are confined for the most part of
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The 4-inch-by-4-foot (10 cm × 1.2 m) windows are designed to prevent inmates from knowing their specific location within the complex. They can see only the sky and roof through them, so it is virtually impossible to plan an escape. Inmates exercise in a concrete pit resembling an empty
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the security levels at ADX have special purposes or missions for the inmates who occupy them. The Control Unit houses inmates who have committed serious conduct violations or acts of violence at other institutions. It also houses high-level members of organizations deemed as threats, such as
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Florence opened on January 10, 1995. The county already had nine prisons, but the lure of 750 to 900 permanent jobs (plus temporary jobs during the prison's construction) led residents to raise $ 160,000 to purchase 600 acres (240 ha) for the new prison. Hundreds of people attended the
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The majority of current inmates, however, have been placed there because each has an extensive history in other prisons of committing violent crimes, including murder, against corrections officers and fellow inmates. These inmates are kept in administrative segregation; they are kept in
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Despite the extreme security measures to deter disruptive, violent, and dangerous behavior among inmates, there have been murders at ADX. Silvestre Mayorqui Rivera and Richard Santiago were both charged with the first-degree murder of Manuel Torres, a high-level member of the
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desperate enough to murder corrections officers or other inmates in the hopes of being sentenced to death. He argued that as draconian as these measures were, they were the only way to deal with inmates who have "absolutely no concern for human life".
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The Bureau of Prisons allowed the media to take a guided tour of Florence on September 14, 2007. Attending reporters remarked on "an astonishing and eerie quiet" within the prison, as well as a sense of safety due to the rigorous security measures.
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sentence him to 15 years in prison for masterminding a coin fraud operation. While in prison, he plotted to murder an undercover officer who had taken part in the investigation. When this came to light, Romano was transferred to Florence.
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placed on them. Range 13 is a special four-cell wing within the Special Housing Unit for inmates in need of the tightest control. As of 2022, the only inmates publicly known to have been incarcerated in this unit are
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the food cannot be used to harm themselves or to create unhygienic conditions in their cell. Some cells have showers which further reduces the amount of handling of inmates that correctional officers have to perform.
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The supermax unit at Florence houses 344 male inmates as of September 14, 2024, each assigned to one of six security levels. It is designed to house up to 474 inmates but has never been at full capacity.
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Florence houses male inmates in the federal prison system deemed the most dangerous and in need of the tightest control, including prisoners whose escape would pose a serious threat to national security.
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The majority of the facility is above ground, with the exception of a subterranean corridor that links cellblocks to the lobby. Each cell contains a desk, stool, and bed, constructed almost entirely of
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producer Henry Schuster said, "A few minutes inside that cell and two hours inside Supermax were enough to remind me why I left high school a year early. The walls close in very fast."
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Sentenced to life in prison alongside his stepbrother, Christopher Kauffman, after they committed a methamphetamine-induced rampage that included two homicides and a bank robbery in
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to the United States on espionage charges in part because he would possibly be subjected to solitary confinement and special administrative measures at ADX. On July 7, 2021, the
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Convicted of carrying out a nine-day crime spree across multiple states that included several kidnappings and resulted in the death of a hostage and his accomplice in 1988.
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after he went on a shooting rampage at the age of 17 that killed his grandparents, brother, and aunt. Frierson was transferred to ADX after killing a fellow inmate at the
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agreed to allow the United States to appeal this decision with the understanding that Assange "will not be subject to SAMs or imprisoned at ADX" if extradited.
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One cell block at Florence was once known as "Bombers Row" because five notable terrorists, four of whom are/were domestic terrorists, were held there:
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criminal Robert Morten is transferred to ADX Florence after he masterminded several killings while already incarcerated at a less secure facility.
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said after a tour of the facility in 1998, "The Bureau of Prisons has taken a harsh punitive model and implemented it as well as anybody I know."
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convicted of multiple counts of armed bank robbery, carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, and felon in possession of a firearm.
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who committed various violent assaults in prison, including stabbing a fellow inmate in a courthouse holding cell.
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steel doors. Officers in the prison's control center monitor inmates twenty-four hours a day and can activate a "
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The prison has received far less criticism than comparable facilities at the state level (such as California's
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to deter self-harm, and are under 24-hour supervision, carried out intensively with high staff–inmate ratios.
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that prevent them from communicating with journalists or privately with their own lawyers or family members.
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they are confined to single cells for at least 23 hours a day in sterile isolation and permanent lockdown.
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Women classified as a "special management concern" due to violence or escape attempts are confined at
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or "control unit" prison, that provides a higher, more controlled level of custody than a regular
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Critics claim that the use of extended confinement in solitary cells severely affects prisoners'
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At least eight inmates have died, or are suspected of having died, by suicide at the facility.
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In 2012, eleven inmates filed a federal class-action suit against the Bureau of Prisons in
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The United States District Court for the District of Colorado, retrieved June 20, 2012
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ADX Florence is a 37-acre (15 ha) complex located at 5880 Highway 67, in an
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groundbreaking for the facility, which was designed by two architecture firms in
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fences surround the perimeter, which is patrolled by heavily armed officers.
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convicted of multiple counts of racketeering and armed drug trafficking.
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Federal supermax prison located in Fremont County, Colorado, US
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The institution is unofficially known as ADX Florence or "the
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Worley, Vidisha Barua; Worley, Robert M. (December 7, 2018).
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Was serving four consecutive life sentences plus 190 years.
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United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility
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United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX

ADX Florence is located in Colorado
ADX Florence is located in the United States
Fremont County
Florence, Colorado
Coordinates
38°21′23″N 105°05′43″W / 38.35639°N 105.09528°W / 38.35639; -105.09528
Supermax
Warden
bop.gov/locations/institutions/flm
Fremont County
Florence, Colorado
Federal Bureau of Prisons
United States Department of Justice
supermax
maximum security prison
Federal Correctional Complex, Florence
United States Penitentiary, Florence High
Federal Bureau of Prisons
reinforced concrete
Alcatraz
Rockies
Federal Correctional Complex, Florence
Federal Bureau of Prisons
United States Department of Justice
Federal Medical Center, Carswell
Fort Worth, Texas
Thomas Silverstein
Clayton Fountain

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