Maxed Out

[kentuck]

A few important details about Super Max in Florence, CO...



http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/


Setting aside the truly ludicrous idea that imprisoned terrorists are going to break out of prison like something out of an old Jimmy Cagney movie, I have heard from a number of readers who say we should be worried that these terrorist prisoners will spread their ideas within the prison system. If you imagine that these al Qaida dudes are going to be hanging around the prison yard, pumping iron and forming their own Islamist gang to go toe to toe with the Aryan Brotherhood and the Black Guerrilla Family that might make some sense. But I don't think these folks are really familiar with how the federal supermax facilities work these days -- particularly the premier one in Florence, Colorado, where all the high profile baddies are. All these guys are in solitary lockdown at least 23 hours a day, when they're allowed into a special exercise cage. Then there's the 78 cell "control unit" for prisoners who are not allowed any contact with anyone. This article from the Post from a few years ago has more details

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. That's right -

those places are horrible. Impenetrable. The idea of anyone busting out of a SuperMax is laughable.

How about that town in - where was it? - Montana? - that offered to take 100 prisoners. It's got a great facility, currently unoccupied, and having 100 inmates - TERRORISTS! - there would create so many jobs, the town would be saved.

Why not?

[lamp_shade]

2. Did you see this post?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5692341

[PDJane]

3. oh, the us knows how to make men into animals......

and putting a man who was sold to us in solitary confinement 23 hours per day would do that. How about treating these men as innocent until proven guilty of something.....without hearsay evidence, evidence from torture? Well, not so much.

As usual, you've allowed the right wing noise machine to dictate the points of the discussion.