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Obama’s 2014 Budget Confirms Plans for “ADX Thomson,” New Federal Supermax Prison

The Obama Administration’s 2014 budget request for the Department of Justice, released this week, confirms that the federal government will open a second ultra-secure supermax prison within the next two years. The new prison will be an “Administrative Maximum U.S. Penitentiary.” Administrative Maximum is a security classification currently held only by the notorious ADX Florence in Colorado, where […]

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Incarcerated People Are Forced to Do Dangerous Hurricane Cleanup Work…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

New this week from Solitary Watch: In the latest piece supported by a grant from Solitary Watch’s Ridgeway Reporting Project, published by Slate, incarcerated journalist Jeremy Busby exposes the shocking treatment endured by incarcerated people with mental illness, among others, in several Texas prisons. His article details the dehumanizing conditions suicidal incarcerated people experience in […]

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