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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 26
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Chesapeake Detention Facility, Maryland House of Correction, Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Cedar Junction, Ohio State Penitentiary, Pelican Bay State Prison, Red Onion State Prison, State Correctional Institution - Greene, Supermax Prison, United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, United States Penitentiary, Marion, Utah State Prison, Varner Unit, Wallens Ridge State Prison. Excerpt: The United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) is a United States federal supermax prison for male inmates located in the city of Florence 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, a division of the United States Department of Justice, it houses the inmates in the federal prison system who are deemed the most dangerous and in need of the tightest control. Correction Officer Merle Clutts Correction Officer Robert HoffmanADX 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 lax 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 currently serving a life sentence at ADX. Hoffman's killer, Clayton Fountain, died in prison of natural causes in 2004. As a response, USP Marion went...