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[wakeme2008]

ADX Florence



Supermax

The highest level of prison security. These prisons were designed to house the most dangerous of inmates. These include serial killers, inmates who have committed murders in less secure prisons, and high-profile inmates such as Theodore Kaczynski, Terry Nichols, and (formerly) Timothy McVeigh.

The United States Federal Bureau of Prisons operates two such facilities: USP (United States Penitentiary) Marion, formerly a Level 5 facility, and ADX Florence, which was built specifically as a supermax facility. Utilizing a penal construction and operation theory known as the "control unit" prison, the conditions of these facilities are extremely harsh — excessively so to some human rights watchdog organizations. Inmates generally spend 23 or more hours per day in their cells, with the additional hour spent either in a supervised one-man shower, or in an "outdoor" recreation area, generally a solid-walled pen twice the size of a cell and also used in solitary.

The cells themselves in ADX Florence are also designed to minimize social contact and increase isolation from the outside world. The cells, usually 7x12 feet are constructed with solid "boxcar" doors, i.e., with no windows and a locked food "wicket", and are nearly completely soundproofed. Drains and drainpipes leading to the cells, which in USP Marion were used as a method of communication, are routed to a central location and damped. Telephone privliges are virtually non-existent, as is any access to radios and television, and all mail save pre-announced legal communications is opened, read, and censored. There are no visitations of any kind, excepting legal visits. To complete the isolation, the windows of the cells (if existent) are very small and designed to only show the sky.

more here

http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Prisons_in_the_United_States#Supermax


Martha would have problems with

[ReverendDeuce]

1. Actually...

I must say that, minus the cold bars that indicate prison, this cell is very "feng shui"... it's very contemporary. To me, it's almost downright elegant as I'm a huge fan of industrial design.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Yeah, I was digging the stainless steel shower

Very nice. The sink looks pretty cool too. Heck all you need is a good futon and you're set for life.

[maddezmom]

2. better yet

GITMO

[michael_1166]

3. The existence of a prison

like "ADX Florence" is another proof that the United States is perverse at the core. How can one actually regard psychic torture like this as justice?

If dehumanization of U.S. prisoners at home is accepted and even regarded as doing justice, the torture of Iraqi prisoners really is no wonder. It is not the evil neocons or Bush or the lying media that let or make this happen, it is the whole U.S. culture that laid the background for the Lynndie England-style "fun" torture of human beings.

I don't see a moral difference between her and the sadistic designers of ADX Florence. Isolating someone for 30 years from all social contacts and make him or her look at only the sky through a tiny window IS sadism. Is there anyone here who regards this as justice???

[crispini]

7. Wow, I must be a real hermit then.

I was just thinking that as long as I could have books and writing paper, it sounds pretty good to me. :D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. What's sad is my apartment isn't much bigger.

[Syncronaut Seven]

6. Fancy digs! And in a gated community too!

See what clean living will get you!

[ultraist]

8. LOL! "Gated community"

:rofl:

[wakeme2008]

9. And all meals cooked and delivered to you dining room table...

Sorry no wine or candles... :rofl:

[NNN0LHI]

10. I wonder if his wife will wait for him? n/t