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U.S. Prison Resources and
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ABUSE,
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Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib,
and Afghanistan
ADX Federal Supermax
Prison, Florence, CO
Major U. S. Supermax Prisons
FEDERAL SUPERMAX
(ADX) PRISON
Florence, Colorado
Supermax:
A Clean Version of Hell
(Revisited)
60 Minutes Reports on Supermax Prison,
June 21, 2009
Originally Broadcast October 14, 2007
"Supermax" Prison Draws Attention in Gitmo
Debate
by Kevin Johnson, USA Today,
June 3, 2009
(with hundreds of readers' comments)
Tough Enough for Terrorists?
Sentencing
Law & Policy Blog, May 21, 2009
CALIFORNIA - PELICAN BAY
ILLINOIS - MARION & TAMMS
OHIO STATE PRISON
VIRGINIA - WALLENS RIDGE & RED
ONION
WISCONSIN SECURE FACILITY
(Boscobel)
Supermax Reports
Report on Monitoring Mail of High Risk
Inmates
U.S. Dept. of Justice - September, 2006
Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's
Prisons
Report: Confronting
Confinement -
June 6, 2006, 226 pages, PDF
Prisons at Center of Damning U.N. Report
- Rizfi, July 12, 2006
National Public Radio Reports:
Life in Solitary Confinement
(Index to
Special Reports)
June 26-28, 2006: A 3-Part
Series by Laura Sullivan
Part 1:
At Pelican Bay Prison - A life in solitary
Part 2:
Prisons Rethink Supermax
Part 3: Making
it on the Outside
Supplementation:
Timeline: Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons
Jamie Fellner: Solitary Confinement & Human Rights
Roger Pilon: Solitary Confinement & the Law
Working the Isolation Unit: A Prison Officer's Tale
May 4, 2006: Michelle Norris and Karen G. Bates
America's Supermax and
A Cell in Supermax Prison
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Yahoo Supermax Photo Gallery
10 Notorious U.S. Prisons
SUPERMAX REPORTS
Buried Alive
American Friends Service Committee-Arizona, May, 2007
Maine State Prison and Supermax Watch
current blog, by Deane Brown
Life in Solitary
Confinement: 12,775 Days Alone
by Brooke Shelby Biggs, AlterNet, April 17, 2007
325
Collective (Prison Struggle)
April,
2007, magazine and
June, 2006, magazine
Arizona Prisons:
A Reporter's Notebook - The Wickenberg Sun
Part 1 - Feb. 21, 2007 -
Part 2 - Feb. 28, 2007 -
Part 3 - Mar. 7, 2007
Does Separation Equal Suffering?
- St. Petersburg Times,
Dec. 17, 2006
Why is Cruel & Unusual Getting Crueler? - Deepak Chopra,
June 26, 2006
The U.S. Gulag Prison System Z-Net, Steve Lendman,
April 21, 2006
Is the End in Sight for Supermax Forbes, April 18,
2006
Supermax Prisons
Losing Favor Arkansas
Democrat Gazette, Feb. 5, 2006
Cruel and Unusual, Dying in Supermax Seven Days, January
25, 2006
Comm. on Prison Safety and Abuse
Vince Nathan
Statement, July 2005
Austalia's New Supermax Prison Melbourne
Indymedia, May 2005
Gangs Keep Tight Rein
- NPR, March 12, 2005
Gangs Reach Out
- National Public Radio, March 7, 2005
Recidivism of Washington Supermax Prisoners, U. of Wash,
April 2004
The Solitary Men Boston Globe, April 4, 2004
The Pain of
Prison, The Why Files, Univ. of Wisconsin, April, 2003
A History of Hard Time Legal Affairs, Jan.-Feb.,
2003
Killing Me Every Day
Amy Abugo Ongiri; Encrucijada/Crossroads,
2003
Prisoners Released from Extreme Isolation USA Today, Dec.
2002
Return
of the Madhouse American Prospect Online, February, 2002
America's Most Unwanted
The Guardian Jan. 2002
Out of Time: Max Security and the Dark Trickster
C.O. Speisel, 2002
Long Term Lockdown National Catholic Reporter, Dec. 8, 2000
The Supermax Solution.
Village Voice, May, 1999
Supermax' Prisons Typify U.S. Attitudes,
Chicago
Tribune, Aug., 1998
Trend
Worries Experts - CNN, Jan. 9, 1998
Prisons, Punishment, and Profiteers,
by Tony Samara, 1998
Brutality
and Torture
- Partnership for Safety and
Justice
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ADX Supermax Prison at Night
The author and webmaster
of "Supermaxed.com" is an attorney with
a possibly perverse fascination with Supermax prisons and a strong
opposition to the torture and abuse of
prisoners. He can be reached by e-mail at:
max@supermaxed.com
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OBAMA & CHENEY VIEWS ON SUPERMAX TRANSFERS
CNN, May 22, 2009
ABC NEWS,
Daily Mail (UK)
USA Today
SUPERMAX PRISONS ALREADY HOLD TERRORISTS
Washington Post, May 22, 2009
ALREADY
355 TERRORISTS IN AMERICAN PRISONS
Fred Kaplan, Slate, May 29, 2009
COLO.
SUPERMAX TOO FULL. . .
Denver
Post, May 22, 2009
Wall Street Journal
President's Remarks on National Security
The
White House, May 21, 2009 (full text)
GUANTANAMO:
Escape
from Guantanamo
Slate, May
8, 2009
Beyond
the Law
McClatchy
Newspapers Investigation.
June 15-19, 2008
Insanity Inside Guantanamo
Salon, June 10,
2008
Locked Up Alone
Human Rights Watch Report, June 10, 2008
HELLHOLE by Atul Gawande
The New Yorker, Annals of Human Rights, March 30,
2009
Lockdown | National Geographic Channel
Lockdown takes viewers inside
the closed world of three maximum-security US prisons to
observe violent clashes, covert rules and secret codes
of justice.
Sample
Supermax Episodes:
1 of 3
2 of 3
3 of 3
From Inside Supermax - 8 Part Series
Questions & Answers with Jacob Ind - July, 2008
What I Learned in Supermax, March 15-20, 2008
Compassion in Juvenile
Sentencing - Feb. 25, 26, 2008
Inside Australian Supermax Video
Fair &
Balanced Assessment of Supermax Prisons
Daniel Mears and
Jamie Watson, Justice Quarterly -
June, 2006
Evaluating Effectiveness of Supermax Prisons
Daniel Mears, Justice Policy Center -
March, 2006
Are Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad?
Time Magazine, Jan. 25, 2007
Benefit-Cost Analysis for Supermax
Lawrence & Mears, Justice Policy Center - August, 2004
NO, WE'RE NOT READY, PRESIDENT OBAMA
Michelle Malkin Blog, May 22, 2009
STOPMAX:
FIGHT AGAINST SUPERMAXES HEATS UP
Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet, August 11, 2008
SUPERMAX AS A TECHNOLOGY OF PUNISHMENT
Lorna Rhodes,
Social Research, June 22 2007
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PODCAST - 2
SUPERMAX PRISONS ARE TORTURE:
Democratic Underground.com,
Dec. 12-15, 2006
LIFE IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
NPR Series, July 26-28, 2006
THE
WORLD'S BIGGEST PRISON SYSTEM
BBC News, Matthew Davis, April 7, 2006
SUPERMAX PRISONS: THEIR RISE . . .
Pizarro-Stenius,
The Prison Journal, June 2004
GITMO THROUGH A VIEWFINDER
National Geographic Explorer
TORTURE:
AMERICA'S BRUTAL PRISONS
United Kingdom; Channel 4 video
LOCKED DOWN: GANGS IN THE SUPERMAX
American RadioWorks documentary
HOW WE GOT
THE SECURITY HOUSING UNIT (SHU)
Terry Kupers, M.D. as told to Trevor
Paglen
SUPERMAX AUSTRALIA
Four Corners - Australian Broadcasting
Corp.
Broadband
Edition
A
Visit to the NSW HRMU Supermax
More Supermax References &
Reports
A Bleak Peek at Hard Time
Control Units - Prisons Within Prisons
A
Critical Look at Supermax Prisons
Polunsky
Unit, Texas - Welcome to Hell
Supermax:
No One Will Hear You Scream
Supermax Prisons: Overview
Survival
in Solitary - (AFS, Nov. 1997)
WATERBOARDING IS ILLEGAL
Washington University Law Review, May 10, 2008
AMERICAN
TORTURE
THE GUANTANAMO FILES
Press TV, February 28,
2008
INTERVIEW WITH "TORTURE & DEMOCRACY" AUTHOR
Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine, Feb. 13, 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY:
REPORT FROM CAMP 6
Toronto Star, Feb. 4, 2007
UIGHERS' DETENTION CONDITIONS CONDEMNED
Washington Post, Jan. 30, 2007
OBSIDIAN WINGS BLOG: TORTURE AND DETENTION
The Torture of Jose Padilla, pt. 1 - Hilzoy, Jan. 10, 2007
Interrogation, pt. 2 - Jan. 10, 2007
A Feature, Not a Bug, pt. 3 - Jan. 15, 2007
Slow & Daily Tampering with
. . . the Brain - Jan. 30,
2007
MORE THOUGHTS ON PADILLA
Unfogged, LizardBreath, Dec. 12, 2006
CRUEL AND DEGRADING: ATTACK DOGS
Human Rights Watch, Oct. 19, 2006
OUTSOURCING TORTURE
Massachusetts School of Law, May 6, 2006
PRESSURE RISING - TORTURE REVISISTED
The Portland Phoenix - March 23, 2006
CONTEMPLATING
TORTURE - Prisoner Solidarity
Bill Nichols - Jan. 27, 2006
CHAIN OF COMMAND
Seymour Hersh - The New Yorker - May 17, 2004
TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB
Seymour Hersh - The New Yorker - May
10, 2004
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
- RECENT REPORTS
HUMAN
RIGHTS WATCH WORLD REPORT - 2009
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