Mírov, the super-maximum security prison, is located in this area.

The super-maximum security prison could hold all of the detainees not moved to the federal system or sent overseas, and could also house military commission trials.

Scrutiny of super-maximum security prisons and the institutionalization of solitary confinement is accompanied by suggestions for alternative methods.

Administrators moved to have the lawsuit dealing with mental health care for inmates at the super-maximum security prison in Florence, saying any oversights were not intentional.

Dubbed the "electronic zoo" by inmates, Katingal was a super-maximum security prison block with 40 prison cells having electronically operated doors, surveillance cameras, and no windows.

Win or lose, when this trial is over, he will be sent to the federal super-maximum security prison in Colorado, under what are said to be the toughest conditions in the country.

Davis was released from the super-maximum security prison in Tamms in far southern Illinois around 7:30 p.m., said Illinois Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kayce Ataiyero.

Camp 7, which Walsh described as the equivalent of super-maximum security prison that holds high profile detainees such as the alleged 9/11 co-conspirators, will not allow its members to interact with other camps.

Way above the average: By comparison, super-maximum security prisons in the United States spend about $60,000 to $70,000 at most to house their inmates (Photo of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay)

At Indiana's Wabash Valley super-maximum security prison, he said, far fewer behavior problems were reported among inmates in isolation after they were given small televisions and prison officials spent more time talking with them.

The court ruled that the suspects would not get "ill treatment" in super-maximum security prisons if they are extradited to the United States and convicted in American courts, according to a statement from the European court.

Ghailani was indicted in New York before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and four of his named co-conspirators have already been tried and convicted and are serving life sentences in a super-maximum security prison in Colorado.

Around 30,000 prisoners in California refused to eat meals in a protest against conditions at Pelican Bay, a super-maximum security prison in the state that keeps inmates with links to gangs in solitary confinement for very long periods of time.

(47) In its July 2006 report on US obligations under the ICCPR, the Human Rights Committee reiterated its concern that conditions in some super-maximum security prisons in the USA were incompatible with Article 10 (1) of the ICCPR.

Please describe steps taken to improve the extremely harsh regime imposed on detainees in "super-maximum security prisons", in particular the practice of prolonged isolation.

Do you have a state "super-maximum security prison"?

He says Supermax is actually better than some places he's been.

But if convicted, the other four are expected to be sent to Supermax.

How could he get the messages out of a supermax prison?

But a government official said those facilities were not designed as supermax security.

One official described the intended security level as "beyond supermax."

Residents of Florence say they don't mind the supermax prison outside town.

The judge would maybe like us to go down to the supermax and poison his food."

The public cannot inspect Supermax facilities from the ground," he says. "

More supermax tonnage now available but owners still ask for strong numbers.

He also pointed out that no one has ever escaped from a federal "supermax" prison.

Today, 30 states have one or more Supermax prisons.

And supermax is almost maxed out, with only one bed to spare.

Most of them argued that Supermax featured better and more mature shows.

All six are serving their sentences at a federal "supermax" prison in Colorado.

Dubbed a "supermax" jail, it is the only federal prison of its kind in the country.

The effects of supermax conditions were worse for someone with pre-existing mental health problems.

Today, two years after the state shut its supermax prison, the number in isolation has fallen to 1.4 percent.

Full Supermax and the only facility of this kind in Mexico.

World of Today was the second album to be released by Supermax.

A supermax is a separate facility within a prison where inmates are placed, "."

Love Machine" is a cover version of a song by Supermax. "

But the supermax, he said, was under control.

So now you're here in a supermax prison.

Profound isolation lies at the heart of the supermax detention philosophy.

A file photo of the SuperMax prison taken when the facility opened 13 years ago.

CNN justice producer Terry Frieden was part of the first-ever media tour of the U.S. Bureau of Prison's Administrative Maximum prison -- also known as "Supermax."

He is serving a life sentence at the federal Administrative Maximum prison, or Supermax, in Florence, Colo., where he has been held under what are known as special administrative measures, or SAMs.

Known as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies," the Administrative Maximum prison in Florence, Col., holds under tight lock and key men convicted of carrying out, or attempting to carry out, deadly attacks on Americans at home and abroad -- dangerous offenders who the prison says require "the tightest controls."