SUPERMAX!

Gothic is a four hour drive from our country's only federal super-maximum security prison, where 22% of the inmates have killed other inmates, and 35% have tried to, so they keep most of the prisoners in solitary confinement for 23 hours (or more) of the day. And even then they only get to exercise alone because the only people they ever interact with there are correctional staff until they are proven worthy to send to a NORMAL maximum security prison.

Awesome.

Of course, the stats are from Wikipedia so take them with a grain of salt. But still. I could tour the only federal supermax this country has, from behind glass. And if a prisoner escapes, that's always fun. Though I doubt they will. They'd probably get killed by attack dogs and razor wire trying to escape.

Oh my God! The Unabomber is at that prison! And a couple Islamic terrorists. And someone convicted of aiding terrorists. And...a Christian Identity terrorist? And a surgeon-turned-serial-killer that poisoned his patients/victims instead of curing them. But that could sound worse than it is if it was assisted suicide. The Oklahoma City Bomber went there and was executed in 2001.

This whole post is almost totally irrelevant. I was just studying for criminal justice and decided to see how far I would be from the "Alcatraz of the Rockies."

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Edit: Here is an article from Times. Apparently the solitary confinement methods border on torture.