"Contact with others is extremely limited; programming, such as anger management or religious services, is broadcast over televisions in the cells, while psychological evaluations happen through the steel doors. Belongings are also strictly limited and prisoners aren't allowed to hang photographs or drawings on their walls. Exercise time out the cell happens alone inside large cages called "dog runs," where prisoners can only walk a few paces each direction."
"Inside the federal supermax tucked away in Colorado's high desert, prisoners spend 22 to 24 hours a day locked alone inside concrete cells that are smaller than a standard parking space. The prison, formally called United States Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum Facility but better known as ADX, has earned the nickname "the Alcatraz of the Rockies" because of its harsh conditions."
ADX confines prisoners in Colorado's high desert to 22 to 24 hours a day in concrete cells smaller than a standard parking space. Contact with others is extremely limited and programming such as anger management or religious services is broadcast over cell televisions. Psychological evaluations occur through steel doors. Personal belongings are strictly limited and prisoners are not allowed to hang photographs or drawings. Exercise takes place alone inside large cages called "dog runs," permitting only a few paces. Prisoners receive virtual-reality goggles to simulate outdoors. A former warden called ADX a "clean version of hell" and said living there was "far much worse than death." High-profile inmates include Eric Robert Rudolph and Ramzi Yousef. Rejon Taylor, commuted from federal death row to life, learned of his transfer to ADX despite a clean disciplinary record and having earned a job.
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