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  • Green Arrow in Supermax prison? — are known mostly for their missteps and blunders.

    Big Changes as DC Comics Becomes Part of DC Entertainment » Comics Worth Reading 2009

  • They torture them in Supermax like cells and solitary confinement cells (torture chambers) that could only be designed by the sickest Christian minds who have ever lived.

    Think Progress » Torture of Mentally Ill Prisoner Led Administration To Pursue False Leads 2006

  • And if people are concerned that lone Gitmo terrorists could stage an escape unaided, well, why haven’t more people stuck in Supermax escaped, acting alone or in small groups?

    Matthew Yglesias » Gitmo and NIMBY 2009

  • This administration should be tried for treason and thrown in Supermax. southerncousin

    House expected to vote on Iranian resolution 2009

  • And the boom in the building of prisons devoted to solitary confinement also known as "Supermax" prisons in the 1990s means more space despite limited need.

    Tanya Greene: Bradley Manning's Treatment Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg Tanya Greene 2011

  • The Supermax has been the home of Ramzi Yousef, who headed the group that carried out the first bombing of the World Trade Center; Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11 conspirator; Ahmed Ressam, of the Los Angeles airport millennium attack plots; Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who conspired to kill President George W. Bush; Wadih el-Hage, guilty of the 1998 bombing of the U.S.

    Jon Soltz: The Weakness of Liz Cheney 2010

  • The Supermax has been the home of Ramzi Yousef, who headed the group that carried out the first bombing of the World Trade Center; Zacarias Moussaoui, 9/11 conspirator; Ahmed Ressam, of the Los Angeles airport millennium attack plots; Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who conspired to kill President George W. Bush; Wadih el-Hage, guilty of the 1998 bombing of the U.S.

    The Weakness of Liz Cheney 2010

  • -- Mark Vernarelli, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, as quoted in the Baltimore Sun in a story about the five men on Maryland's death row quietly moving from the hulking Baltimore prison once known as Supermax to a Western Maryland facility hailed recently as one of the most technologically advanced maximum-security prisons in the United States.

    First Click, Maryland -- That's the ticket 2010

  • Death row had been located at the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center, formerly known as Supermax, for more than 20 years.

    Maryland moves its death row 2010

  • The highest-level terrorists are housed at the Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, known as Supermax, in Florence, Colo., where prisoners have almost no human interaction, physical exercise or mental stimulation, replicating the conditions for most of those held at Guantánamo.

    One Day We'll All Be Terrorists 2009

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