Elected officials advancing tough-on-crime policies have promoted large supermax prisons for their symbolic message, regardless of actual need. Fearful of being accused of "coddling inmates" or ...

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 ...

TASS/. Russian national Viktor Bout, sentenced to 25 years behind bars at a prison in Marion (US, Illinois), has been transferred to a special supermax unit within the prison, where he spent the ...