In case people don't have a good understanding of what a supermax is, it is torture.

[pipoman]

293. sure.. the way this is accomplished is by putting

The person in an environment where they have no contact with anyone but prison stafff. That is an administrative maximum security facility...aka admax, aka ADX, aka supermax.

I am speaking of my experience with the federal prison system. Certainly I have been very critical of many aspects of the prison system. I am a card carrying member of the aclu. I am not anyone's advocate for torture and have a long history of pro bono criminal defense work. I also live in the public, have family and friends who I care about, and know many people in prison (and know there are thousands more I don't know) who should never be able to rejoin society for your ssafety and mine...they cannot be trusted..

Most of the people in USP Florence ADX are there because not only can they not be trusted in society, they can't be trusted in prison for the safety of other inmates and staff either. Many of these people are the "shot callers" of gangs responsible for vast amounts of crime within the system. Victimizers of other inmates with vast numbers of people both inside the prisons and in the public (previously in prison) who will do just about anything they are told because if they don't they and their families are in actual danger. They were forced by a corrupt prison system to seek protection from victimization from a gang. When they are granted protection, from that day forward, for the rest of their life, they will do what they are told or be killed or otherwise victimized or their family will be victimized.

These people have been locked up for years. This is a simple concept we all understand. What is harder to understand for someone who hasn't been there or studied it is what actually happens from the lockup. What some people do with their mind during this time. Go into your bathroom and sit for an hour with the door closed and no outside stimulation. Consider what you do to keep your mind occupied. Now sit in your bathroom for 5 years.

Every person these people come in contact with becomes a target to get something, be it cigarettes, drugs, or muling information or messages. These contact might be bought, or they might have their family threatened. If someone who you know has been responsible for ordering other gang members on the inside and outside to kill, rape, and rob people who refuse to do what they are told, this gang member hands you a note and tells you to give it to another person you have access to, you'll probably do what you're told....unless you know that the person telling you to do it is confined with no chance of getting a hit on your children out without your help...this is adx...

Here is an interesting read about one such person..nearly everyone you read about in this is most likely in USP Florence ADX now...
http://m.pitch.com/kansascity/hard-cell/Content?oid=2173099