They're required to work despite the partial government shutdown. When you walk into the federal "supermax" -- or supermaximum security -- prison just outside Florence, Colorado, there are bright ...

The guards shut the door behind you. This freezing cell, a maximum of 2.1 x 3.6 m (7 x 12 ft), could be your home for the ...

DENVER, Colorado ” The “Supermax” prison in Florence has been mentioned as a possible site to hold suspected terrorists now at Guantanamo Bay, but housing them there could be a logistical headache.

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is now detained in the highest-security prison in the country. Tsarnaev was sentenced to death last month. He then was taken from Massachusetts to the U.S.

A federal judge has denied a legal attempt, for now, to prevent the U.S. government from transferring former death row inmates to the "Supermax" in Colorado.

DENVER (AP) — An inmate who killed the former leader of the Mexican Mafia, a Hispanic prison gang, at Colorado’s federal supermax prison has been sentenced to ...

A federal judge took the rare step last week of concluding an incarcerated, self-represented plaintiff should be compensated $10,000 by the U.S. government for a prison guard’s unwarranted use of ...

A federal judge took the rare step last week of concluding an incarcerated, self-represented plaintiff should be compensated $10,000 by the U.S. government for a prison guard’s unwarranted use of ...