STERLING, Colo. (Associated Press) — An inmate who escaped from a maximum-security Colorado prison has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to k...
David C. Fathi | Posted 05.25.2011
Colorado state senators have introduced a bill that would substantially limit the use of solitary confinement in the state's prisons. These reforms are long overdue.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
DENVER — A federal judge has dismissed claims by Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that prison officials violated his constitution...
Westword | Alan Prendergast | Posted 05.25.2011
The release of a twelve-month study about the mental effects of solitary confinement at Colorado's supermax is still weeks away. But preliminary re...
David C. Fathi | Posted 05.25.2011
The ACLU has been bringing challenges to supermax prisons for over a decade, and what we've found is troubling. The official line is that these prisons are reserved for the "worst of the worst" but most states have only a few such prisoners.
NBC Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011
Thursday, a state appeals court told officials at a maximum security prison that they had to give an inmate photographs of women in bikinis that he or...
Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011
In the end, Liz Cheney and Keep America Safe are just a re-run of what was already tried and failed in 2008. Namely, using the veil of fear to mask an un-informed, false, and weak position.
Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011
In the past weeks and days, new photos have been released of Gitmo prisoners.
Jonathan Richards | Posted 05.25.2011
US prisons are only accepting kinder, gentler prisoners these days.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
The minute Ted Kaczynski makes a run for it out of the Supermax in Colorado is the minute I'll agree that it's unsafe to bring the Gitmo detainees to the US.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011
The list of prisoners who have been or are presently at Supermax is quite distinguished as prison rosters go; it includes Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber," and Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber."
AP | Posted 10.27.2011