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 ...

President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and ...

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 ...

Generic serial killers escape from a generic supermax prison and are pursued by a generic team of investigators in this drama starring Melissa Roxburgh. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic ...

TASS/. Russian national Viktor Bout, sentenced to 25 years behind bars at a prison in Marion (US, Illinois), has been transferred to a special supermax unit within the prison, where he spent the ...