Dirk Horne refused to participate in a race riot at the high-security U.S. Penitentiary in Florence in April 2008. As a result, he was beaten severely by fellow white inmates, who had provoked the riot against black inmates during a…
While Colorado has begun construction on a new 320-bed super maximum security prison, public officials are still wondering how it will be staffed adequately under a sluggish economy and a statewide hiring freeze.
The for-profit prison firm the GEO Group celebrated the grand opening of its new, 1,500-bed federal detention center in Texas last week with a joyous bash featuring camouflage-clad guards and a mariachi band, providing a possible hint about a similar lockup that the corrections business is planning to open up in the Denver area by 2009.
Dem Rep. Buffie McFayden of Pueblo and members of the American Federation of Government Employees Local Union gathered yesterday at the Florence Correctional Complex to raise their concerns over the understaffing occurring at federal prisons.
SuperMax, the maxium security…
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