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 ...

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 ...

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 ...