The Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center, aka the Baltimore Supermax prison, opened in 1989 at a cost of $21 million (in 1989 dollars) with room for 288 inmates.

Ignoring the merits, the government seeks a quick dismissal of a civil-rights lawsuit alleging neglect and mistreatment at America's most famous prison. The prison guards who found Jose Martin ...

Gil Halsted of Wisconsin Public Radio reports on conditions inside so-called "Supermax" prisons in Ohio and Wisconsin. Supermax prisons keep inmates deemed to be dangerous in isolation. Critics ...

Supermax prisons experienced a building boom in the 1980s and '90s, largely in response to "get tough on crime" policies. In Illinois, gangs effectively ran some prisons, and violence was epidemic.

Reporter says prison is eerily quiet Next Article in U.S. » CNN justice producer Terry Frieden was part of the first-ever media tour of the U.S. Bureau of Prison's Administrative Maximum prison ...

Fourteen years ago, Maryland opened its ultramodern Supermax prison, a high-tech fortress to hold the "worst of the worst." In contrast, a few blocks away stood the Maryland Penitentiary, a dark ...

Twenty-year-old David Tracy hanged himself in a Virginia supermax; he had been sent there at age 19, with a 2 ½ year sentence for selling drugs. The mentally ill are vastly overrepresented in supermax ...

You almost had to feel sorry for the conservative legislators whose proudest achievement in life ended last week with a proposed federal court settlement to reduce the inhumane treatment of ...

The punishment was severe: He was sent to a special supermax unit at the state’s highest-security prison, Pelican Bay. The facility was designed to isolate men deemed the “worst of the worst.” ...

Britain’s most dangerous prisoners could face a US-style “supermax” prison regime after a string of violent attacks on officers. Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, has ordered a review ...