![]() ![]() With good behavior, inmates earn the right to buy a small, black-and-white TV with a built-in radio, and to borrow books and magazines from the prison library. The "bathroom" is a combination toilet/sink and a shower that turns on automatically three times a week. Since ADX inmates can't be trusted with anything that could be broken down and made into a weapon, all the cell furniture is solid concrete and immovable: a concrete writing desk, concrete chair and a concrete slab topped with a thin foam pad that serves as a bed. So is Eric Rudolph, the Atlanta Olympics bomber the 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui the Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols the 1993 World Trade Center terrorist Ramzi Yousef and Michael Swango, a doctor who poisoned and killed up to 60 of his patients. The "Unabomber," Ted Kaczynski, is in there. Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the notorious drug kingpin, was sent to ADX after escaping twice from maximum-security prisons in Mexico. The ADX in Florence, Colorado, is the one and only federal "Supermax" prison, home to the most dangerous and escape-prone inmates in federal lockup.Īmong nearly 400 male inmates at ADX are several infamous characters. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, but everyone calls it the ADX. Just two hours outside of Denver, in the parched Rocky Mountain foothills, sits the highest-security prison in America. It's dubbed the "Alcatraz of the Rockies" because of its remote location and harsh security measures. A view of the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, also known as the ADX or "Supermax," in Florence, Colorado. ![]()
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