ADX Florence

U.S. Penitentiary, Florence ADX

Location	Fremont County, near Florence, Colorado
Status	Operational
Security class	Supermax with adjacent minimum security camp
Population	927 (408 supermax, 519 camp)
Opened	1994
Managed by	Federal Bureau of Prisons
Warden	David Berkebile

The United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) is an American federal supermax prison for male inmates located in Fremont County, Colorado. It is unofficially known as ADX Florence, Florence ADMAX, Supermax, or the Alcatraz of the Rockies. Part of the Florence Federal Correctional Complex, which is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), a division of the United States Department of Justice, houses the male inmates in the federal prison system who are deemed the most dangerous and in need of the tightest control. ADX also includes an adjacent minimum-security camp that, as of March 2014, houses more prisoners than the supermax unit.

The BOP does not have a designated "supermax" facility for women. Women in the BOP system who are classified as "special management concerns" due to violence and/or escape attempts are confined in the administrative unit of Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.

The facility's current warden is David Berkebile.

History

ADX Florence was constructed as a response to several serious security breaches at federal prisons, including those that occurred at the United States Penitentiary, Marion, a high security facility in Marion, Illinois, on October 22, 1983, in which Correction Officers Merle Clutts and Robert Hoffman were stabbed to death in two separate incidents. Relatively relaxed security procedures allowed an inmate, while walking down a hall, to turn to the side and approach another cell so an accomplice could unlock his handcuffs with a stolen key and provide him with a knife. Both officers were killed using this tactic. Clutts's killer, Thomas Silverstein, is serving three life sentences at ADX. Hoffman's killer, Clayton Fountain, died in prison of natural causes in 2004.

As a response, USP Marion went into "permanent lockdown" and transformed itself into a "control unit" prison for the next 23 years, requiring inmates to remain in solitary confinement for 22 to 23 hours each day, and prohibiting communal dining, exercise, and religious services.

Following the killings, Norman Carlson, then director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, argued that a more secure type of prison needed to be designed, where uncontrollable inmates could be isolated from correction officers and other prisoners for the sake of security and safety. Marion became a model for the subsequent construction of ADX, a facility designed from the ground up as a control unit prison. Years later, Carlson said that building such a prison was the only way to handle inmates who "show absolutely no concern for human life." He pointed out that since Silverstein and Fountain were already serving multiple life sentences in a maximum security facility, simply adding another life sentence would have had no real effect or enhanced safety.

ADX opened in November 1994. The residents of Fremont County welcomed the prison as a source of employment. At the time, the county was already home to nine existing prisons. However, the lure of between 750 and 900 permanent jobs, in addition to another 1,000 temporary jobs during the prison's construction, led residents in the area to raise $160,000 to purchase 600 acres (240 ha) for the new prison. Hundreds of people attended the groundbreaking for the facility, which was designed jointly by two leading architecture firms in Colorado Springs, DLR Group and LKA Partners, and cost $60 million to build.

Inmate population

The supermax unit at ADX Florence houses about 410 male inmates, each assigned to one of six security levels.

The facility is best known for housing inmates who have been deemed too dangerous, too high-profile or too great a national security risk for even a maximum-security prison. These include the leaders of violent gangs who had continued to issue orders to their members from lower security facilities, including Larry Hoover of the Gangster Disciples, and Barry Mills and Tyler Bingham of the Aryan Brotherhood. ADX also houses foreign terrorists, including Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in civilian court of the September 11 attacks; Faisal Shahzad, the perpetrator of the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt; and Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; as well as domestic terrorists, such as Ted Kaczynski and Eric Rudolph. Timothy McVeigh, who carried out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, was housed at ADX before he was sentenced to death in 1997 and transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute, which houses federal death row inmates. McVeigh's co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, is serving 161 life sentences at ADX. Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent who betrayed several spies to the Soviet Union and Russia, is serving 15 life sentences at ADX for his crimes. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombings, was transferred here from another prison in the Florence complex on July 17, 2015. The prison also houses inmates who are a high escape risk, including Richard McNair, who escaped from a county jail and two other prisons before being sent to ADX. Additionally, former Bonanno crime-family boss Vincent Basciano is currently serving time in ADX Florence.

However, the majority of inmates have been sent there because they have an extensive history of committing violent crimes against corrections officers and fellow inmates in other prisons, up to and including murder. These inmates are kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day for at least the first year. Depending on their conduct, inmates are then gradually allowed out for longer periods. The long-term goal is to keep them at ADX for three years, then transfer them to a less restrictive prison to serve out the remainder of their sentences. According to a 1998 report in the San Francisco Chronicle, ADX Florence's main purpose is to "try and extract reasonably peaceful behavior from extremely violent career prisoners".

Prison facility

Design of a cell at ADX Florence

Artist's view of the cell

ADX Florence is a 37-acre (15 ha), 490-bed complex at 5880 Highway 67, Florence, Colorado, about 100 miles (160 km) south of Denver and south of Colorado Springs. It is one part of the Florence Federal Correctional Complex (FFCC), which comprises three correctional facilities, each with a different security rating.

The majority of the facility is above ground. The only part that is underground is a subterranean corridor that links cellblocks to the lobby. Inmates spend 23 hours a day locked in their cells and are escorted by a minimum of three officers for their five hours of private recreation per week. Each cell has a desk, a stool, and a bed, which are almost entirely made out of poured concrete, as well as a toilet that shuts off if blocked, a shower that runs on a timer to prevent flooding, and a sink lacking a potentially dangerous tap. Rooms may also be fitted with polished steel mirrors bolted to the wall, an electric light that can only be shut off remotely, a radio, and on rare occasions, a black-and-white television that shows recreational, educational, and religious programming. In addition, all cells are soundproofed to prevent prisoners from communicating with each other via Morse code.

The 4 in (10 cm) by 4 ft (120 cm) windows are designed to prevent inmates from knowing their specific location within the complex because they can see only the sky and roof through them, making it virtually impossible to plan an escape. Inmates exercise in a concrete pit resembling an empty swimming pool, also designed to prevent them from knowing their location in the facility. The pit is only large enough for a prisoner to walk 10 steps in a straight line, or 30 steps in a circle. Telecommunication with the outside world is forbidden, and food is hand-delivered by correction officers. However, inmates sent here from other prisons can potentially be allowed to eat in a shared dining room. The prison as a whole contains a multitude of motion detectors and cameras, and 1,400 remote-controlled steel doors. Guards in the prison's control center monitor inmates 24 hours a day and can activate a "panic button" that instantly closes every door in the facility should an escape attempt be suspected. Pressure pads and 12-foot-tall (3.7 m) razor wire fences surround the perimeter, which is patrolled by heavily armed guards with silent attack dogs. In extreme cases of inmate misbehavior, the center of the prison houses an area known as "Z-Unit" or "The Black Hole," which can hold up to 148 prisoners in completely darkened and fully soundproofed cells. Each Z-Unit cell is equipped with a full set of body restraints that are built directly into the concrete bed.

Cheri Nolan, a Deputy Assistant Attorney General under President George W. Bush, toured ADX Florence in 2004 while a member of the advisory board for the National Institute of Corrections, a federal agency that supports correctional programs. Nolan stated, "I've never seen anything like it as far as the technology and physical set up. Once you're inside you really can't tell where you are - what's north, south, east or west. The way it's designed, it's an interesting kind of setup," Nolan said. "Because of the high value of targets they have there - on a world scale, whether it be a drug cartel or terrorists - they are as concerned with someone trying to get in to break someone out as much as they are about inmates trying to escape. The protection around the prison is pretty remarkable."

The Federal Bureau of Prisons allowed the media to take a guided tour of ADX on September 14, 2007. Attending reporters remarked on "an astonishing and eerie quiet" within the prison as well as a sense of safety due to the rigorous security measures in place within the facility. One journalist who took the tour, 60 Minutes producer Henry Schuster, said: "A few minutes inside that cell and two hours inside Supermax were enough to remind me why I left high school a year early. The walls close in very fast."

Controversies

Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber, stated in a series of 2006 letters to a Colorado Springs newspaper that the ADX is meant to "inflict misery and pain." A former ADX warden described the place as "a cleaner version of Hell". As of 2007, there have been hundreds of "involuntary feedings" and, as of 2015, six suicides. In June 2009 Richard Reid, the al-Qaida terrorist commonly known as the "shoe bomber" (who attempted to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 with explosives concealed in his shoes) went on a hunger strike and was force-fed as a result. Nonetheless, the prison has come under far less scorn than comparable facilities at the state level, which tend to suffer heavily from overpopulation, low staff-to-inmate ratios and security issues inherent to attempting to enforce a supermax system in a non-purpose-built facility. Jamie Fellner of Human Rights Watch said after a tour of the facility, "The Bureau of Prisons has taken a harsh punitive model and implemented it as well as anybody I know." Notorious escape artist Richard Lee McNair wrote to a journalist from his cell in 2009 to say "Thank God for prisons [...] There are some very sick people in here... Animals you would never want living near your family or the public in general. I don't know how corrections staff deal with it. They get spit on, shit on, abused and I have seen them risk their own lives and save a prisoner many times."

In 2012, 11 inmates filed a federal class-action suit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons and officials who run ADX Florence, Bacote v. Federal Bureau of Prisons now titled Cunningham v. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The suit alleged chronic abuse, failure to properly diagnose, and neglect of prisoners who are seriously mentally ill. As of March 2015 settlement negotiations were underway with the help of a federal magistrate and some improvements had been made by the Bureau of Prisons.

In May 2013, ADX Florence was ranked #1 as one of the ten worst prisons in the United States, in the opinion of Mother Jones magazine.

Notable current inmates

This section is about notable inmates who are currently held at Florence ADX. For a list of notable former inmates, see List of former inmates of US Penitentiary, Florence ADX.

Foreign terrorists

This list contains foreign citizens who committed or attempted to commit terrorist attacks against United States citizens and interests.

All sentences are without parole, as parole is not afforded to Federal prisoners.

Inmate Name	Register Number	Photo	Status	Details
Zacarias Moussaoui	51427-054		Serving 6 life sentences.	Self-professed Al-Qaeda senior member, pleaded guilty to terrorism conspiracy charges in 2005 for playing a key role in planning the September 11 attacks by helping the hijackers obtain flight lessons, money and material used in the attacks.
Ramzi Yousef Mahmud Abouhalima Mohammed Salameh Eyad Ismoil	03911-000 28064-054 34338-054 37802-054		Yousef: life sentences. Abouhhalima: 240 years. Salameh: Life sentence. Ismoil: 240 years.	Al-Qaeda operatives; convicted in 1994 of terrorism conspiracy and other charges in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people and injured over 1000. Yousef was also convicted in 1996 of planning Project Bojinka, a foiled plot conceived by senior Al-Qaeda member Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to bomb twelve planes in a 48-hour period.
Mohamed Al-Owhali Wadih el-Hage Khalfan Mohamed Mohammed Odeh Ahmed Ghailani	42371-054 42393-054 44623-054 42375-054 02476-748		Serving life sentences.	Al-Qaeda operatives; convicted in connection with the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, Africa, which were conceived by Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden; the bombings killed 224 people and injured over 4000.
Abu Hamza al-Masri	67495-054		Serving a life sentence under the name Mustafa Kamel Mustafa.	Egyptian cleric and former associate of late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden; extradited from the UK in 2012; convicted in 2014 of masterminding the 1998 kidnapping of Westerners in Yemen and establishing a terrorist training camp in Oregon in 1999.
Richard Reid	24079-038	80px	Serving 3 life sentences plus 110 years.	Al-Qaeda operative; pleaded guilty in 2002 to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction in connection with his 2001 attempt to detonate explosive devices hidden in his shoes on a plane traveling from Paris to Miami; known as the "Shoe Bomber."
Umar Abdulmutallab	44107-039		Serving 4 life sentences plus 50 years.	Al-Qaeda supporter and follower of the late militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki; pleaded guilty in 2011 to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction for trying to detonate an explosive sewn into his underwear on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009; known as the "Underwear Bomber."
Eljvir Duka	61282-066		Serving a life sentence.	Ethnic Albanian from the former Yugoslavia; convicted in 2008 of conspiracy to murder members of the US military and for plotting to attack soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey using automatic weapons; four others were also convicted.
Iyman Faris	46680-083		Serving a 20-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2020.	Al-Qaeda operative; pleaded guilty in 2003 to terrorism conspiracy for researching potential targets, including the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, and obtaining equipment to be used in attacks at the behest of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Ahmed Ressam	29638-086		Serving a 37-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2032.	Al-Qaeda operative; convicted in 2001 of terrorism conspiracy for planning to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on December 31, 1999 in what is known as one of the 2000 millennium attack plots.
Simón Trinidad	27896-016		Serving a 60-year sentence under the name Juvenal Ovidio Palmera Pineda; scheduled for release in 2056.	Member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a guerrilla group on the U.S. State Department list of Terrorist Organizations; convicted in 2007 of terrorism conspiracy for his involvement in the 2003 kidnapping of three American military contractors.
Adis Medunjanin	65114-053		Serving a life sentence.	Al-Qaeda supporter; convicted in 2012 of plotting to conduct coordinated suicide bombings in the New York City subway system in September 2009; co-conspirators Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay pleaded guilty.
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith	91969-054		Serving a life sentence.	Al-Qaeda spokesman and son-in-law to Osama Bin Laden. Convicted in March 2014 for conspiring to kill Americans and providing material support to terrorists.

Domestic terrorists

This list contains American citizens who committed or attempted to commit terrorist attacks against United States citizens and interests.

Inmate Name	Register Number	Photo	Status	Details
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev	95079-038		Sentenced to death by lethal injection.	Perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing; Dzhokhar and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev planted and detonated pressure cooker bombs at the finish line, killing 3 and injuring over 200.
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali	70250-083		Serving life sentence.	Al-Qaeda operative; convicted in 2005 of plotting to assassinate U.S. President George W. Bush; federal prosecutors based their case on a confession Abu Ali provided to Saudi Arabian intelligence officials, which Abu Ali claimed was motivated by torture.
Theodore Kaczynski	04475-046		Serving 8 life sentences.	Known as the Unabomber; pleaded guilty in 1998 to building, transporting, and mailing explosives to carry out 16 bombings from 1978 to 1995 in a mail bombing campaign aimed at destroying modern technology, which killed three people and injured 23 others.
Terry Nichols	08157-031	80px	Serving 161 consecutive life sentences.	Convicted of carrying out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which killed 168 people. Co-conspirator Timothy McVeigh was executed in Indiana in 2001.
Eric Rudolph	18282-058		Serving 4 consecutive life sentences.	Member of the extremist group Army of God; pleaded guilty in 2005 to carrying out four bombings between 1996 and 1998, including the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta; three people were killed during the bombing spree.
Faisal Shahzad	63510-054		Serving a life sentence.	Al-Qaeda supporter; pleaded guilty to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and other charges in connection with the 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt; received explosives training in 2009 from the terrorist organization Tehrik-i-Taliban in Pakistan.
Naser Jason Abdo	80882-280		Serving 2 life sentences plus 60 years.	U.S. Army private who refused to deploy to Afghanistan and went AWOL; convicted in 2012 of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction for plotting to detonate a bomb at a restaurant near Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas when it was filled with soldiers in 2011.
Joseph Konopka	20749-424		Serving a 13-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2019.	Pleaded guilty in 2002 to causing blackouts in Wisconsin by damaging power substations and utility facilities, as well as storing potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide in the Chicago subway system; also known as "Dr. Chaos."

Double agents/traitors

Inmate Name	Register Number	Photo	Status	Details
Noshir Gowadia	95518-022		Serving a 32-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2043.	Former engineer for the U.S. Defense Department and principal designer of the B-2 stealth bomber; convicted in 2011 of using classified information to assist the People's Republic of China in producing cruise missiles with stealth technology.
Robert Hanssen	48551-083		Serving 15 consecutive life sentences.	Former senior FBI agent assigned to counterintelligence; pleaded guilty in 2002 to espionage for passing classified information to the Soviet Union and later to Russia over a 20-year period; perpetrated what was regarded at the time as the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history, betraying dozens of U.S. intelligence agents, several of whom were executed directly due to Hanssen's betrayal.
Walter Myers	29796-016		Serving a life sentence.	Former intelligence analyst for the US State Department; pleaded guilty in 2009 to conspiracy to commit espionage for providing classified US national defense information to Cuba; his wife, Gwendolyn Myers, was sentenced to 6 years.
Harold Nicholson	49535-083		Serving a 23-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2024.	Highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of espionage; pleaded guilty in 1997 to passing classified information to Russia from 1994 to 1996; pleaded guilty in 2010 to attempting to collect payments from Russian agents for his past espionage activities.

Cartel leaders

Inmate Name	Register Number	Photo	Status	Details
Haji Bagcho	29820-016		Serving 20 years to life.	Afghan national and one of the largest heroin traffickers in the world; convicted in 2012 of conspiracy and narco-terrorism for using drug trafficking profits to assist high-level members of the Taliban further their insurgency in Afghanistan.
Juan Garcia Abrego	09935-000		Serving 11 consecutive life sentences.	Convicted in 1996 of operating the Gulf Cartel, a criminal enterprise that smuggled thousands of tons of cocaine and marijuana into the US from Mexico over a 16-year period.
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén	62604-079		Serving a 25-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2025.	Succeeded Juan García as leader of the Gulf Cartel; extradited to the US from Mexico in 2007 and pleaded guilty to threatening to murder U.S. law enforcement agents, drug trafficking and money laundering.

Organized crime figures

Inmate Name	Register Number	Photo	Status	Details
Vincent Basciano	30694-054		Serving 2 life sentences.	Served as Acting Boss of the Bonanno Crime Family in 2004 after Boss Joseph Massino was arrested; convicted in 2006 of murder, murder conspiracy, and racketeering charges; convicted in 2011 of ordering the 2004 murder of Bonanno associate Randolph Pizzolo.
James Marcello	99076-012		Serving a life sentence.	Reputed "Front Boss" of the Chicago Outfit; convicted of racketeering conspiracy for participating in or ordering 18 murders and directing criminal activities including extortion, illegal gambling, loansharking, and bribery.
Luis Felipe Gustavo Colon	14067-074 07984-424		Felipe: serving 250 years. Colon: Life sentence.	Leaders of the Latin Kings gang; convicted in 1996 and 2000 of murder conspiracy and racketeering for running a criminal enterprise whose members engage in murder, assault, armed robbery, and drug trafficking; Felipe is known as "King Blood," Colon as "La Corona."
Ruben Castro Raul Leon Francisco Martinez	03328-112 95335-198 91147-011		Serving life sentences.	Leaders of the Mexican Mafia; convicted of racketeering and murder conspiracy for running violent drug trafficking operations.
Joseph Hernandez Tex Hernandez James Morado Gerald Rubalcaba Cornelio Tristan	02837-748 02536-748 02846-748 02552-748 02550-748		Serving life sentences.	Leaders of the Nuestra Familia gang, which engages in drug trafficking, extortion and murder inside and outside of prisons in California; arrested as part of Operation Black Widow in 2001; pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in 2004.
Tyler Bingham Barry Mills	03325-091 14559-116		Serving life sentences.	Aryan Brotherhood prison gang founders; transferred to ADX in 2006 after being connected to violent gang activities in prison; convicted of murder, murder conspiracy, and racketeering for ordering the killing of two African-American inmates at USP Lewisburg in Pennsylvania.
Thomas Silverstein	14634-116		Serving a 90-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2095.	Aryan Brotherhood prison gang leader (considered one of the most dangerous inmates in the federal prison system); transferred to ADX after murdering Correction Officer Merle Clutts at USP Marion in 1983 while serving a sentence for bank robbery. Silverstein's crime was the impetus for the construction of ADX.
Jeff Fort	92298-024		Serving an 80-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2039.	Founder of the El-Rukn (Black P. Stones) gang in Chicago; convicted of drug trafficking charges in 1983; convicted of terrorism conspiracy in 1987 for plotting to commit attacks inside the U.S. in exchange for weapons and $2.5 million from Libya.
Howard Mason	24651-053		Serving a life sentence.	Convicted in 1989 of racketeering charges in connection with his leadership of "The Bebos," a violent drug gang in Queens, NY; ordered the 1988 murder of New York City Police Officer Edward Byrne.
O. G. Mack	30063-037		Serving a 50-year sentence under his actual name, Omar Portee; scheduled for release in 2044.	Founder of the United Blood Nation gang; convicted in 2002 of racketeering and murder conspiracy, as well as narcotics and weapons charges.
Kaboni Savage	58232-066		Sentenced to death on June 3, 2013.	Philadelphia drug kingpin; convicted in 2013 of 12 counts of murder in aid of racketeering for ordering six drug-related homicides, as well as the firebombing of the home of a federal witness which killed two adults and four children.
Perry Roark	53975-037		Serving a life sentence.	Founder of Dead Man Incorporated, a prison gang active in four states; pleaded guilty in 2012 to leading a racketeering enterprise which engaged in murder and threats to commit murder, armed robbery, drug trafficking and extortion.

Other crimes

Inmate Name	Register Number	Photo	Status	Details
Dwight York	17911-054		Serving a 135-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2122.	Founder of the black separatist cult Nuwaubian Nation of Moors; made millions of dollars from the forced labor of cult members; convicted in 2004 of racketeering and child molestation for having sex with underage members; known by supporters as Dr. Malachi York.
Matthew Hale	15177-424		Serving a 40-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2037.	Founder of the neo-nazi group World Church of the Creator; convicted in 2004 of soliciting the murder of Federal Judge Joan Lefkow for ruling against him in a copyright lawsuit brought by a mainstream church with the same name.
Richard McNair	13829-045		Serving 2 life sentences on a state murder charge from North Dakota in 1987.	Held at ADX due to multiple prison escapes; escaped from the Ward County Jail in Minot, ND in 1987 by using lip balm to slip out of handcuffs, from the ND State Penitentiary in Bismarck in 1992 by crawling through a ventilator duct, and from USP Pollock in Louisiana in 2006 by mailing himself out of prison in a crate.
Michael Swango	08352-424	80px	Serving 3 life sentences.	Physician and serial killer; pleaded guilty in 2000 to fatally poisoning four patients; has been linked to scores of other deaths.
Michael Rudkin	17133-014		Serving a 90-year sentence; scheduled for release in 2099.	Former correction officer at FCI Danbury in Connecticut; sentenced to prison in 2008 for having sex with an inmate; convicted in 2010 of trying to hire a hitman to kill the inmate, his ex-wife, his ex-wife's boyfriend and a federal agent while incarcerated at USP Coleman in Florida (Now housed in FCI Coleman).

In fiction

The prison was referenced to in the Breakout Kings season one finale episode "Where In The World Is Carmen Vega" as a maximum-security prison in Colorado where Vega was sent to at the end of the episode, and in several Hawaii Five-0 episodes referencing where Wo-Fat was sent.

The prison makes an appearance in the graphic novel I Am Legend: Awakening where the character John Edward Lord is left to die when the prison is abandoned, escapes but then returns to fight creatures in a last stand battle.

See also

• Incarceration in the United States
• List of U.S. federal prisons
• Special Handling Unit, a supermax prison operated by Corrections Canada

Further reading

• Vick, Karl. "Isolating the Menace In a Sterile Supermax." The Washington Post. Sunday September 30, 2007.

External links

• Official website of Federal Bureau of Prisons and its section on ADX Florence. Information on visiting is on the linked PDF
• "Supermax: A Clean Version Of Hell." CBS News. October 14, 2007. Updated on June 19, 2009.