Cunningham arrived at ADX/Supermax in 2001, was taken off his existing medication, and was promptly placed in the prison's ultra-secure Control Unit, a place where prisoners are not permitted to ...

When President Donald Trump commuted the federal prison sentence of former Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, it may have marked the first time a form of clemency was granted on a current inmate of the ...

El Chapo's fellow inmates at ADX would include Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry ...

There’s a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, two hours outside Denver. It’s the highest-security penitentiary in the United States. Since opening in 1994, no prisoner has escaped from the ...

Colloquially known as ADX, it’s the only federal supermax prison in the country, and no one has ever escaped the “Alcatraz of the Rockies.” Opened in November 1994, the facility sits on the outskirts ...

Colorado, it immediately becomes clear: ADX, the nation’s most secure Supermax prison, is built to cut them off from the world. Now that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, has been ...

The United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, is a state-of-the-art isolation prison for repeat and high-profile felony offenders.

All of them came to Supermax because of violent run-ins at other federal prisons or other parts of the sprawling ADX complex in Florence, Colorado (some of those incidents themselves were a ...

The U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, better known as ADX, has recently lost two of its most high-profile prisoners. After living in the supermax outside Florence, Colorado ...

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.

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, is built ...