U.S. authorities are preparing to transfer former federal death row ... Haute — to a higher-security prison in Colorado. Sometimes referred to as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the ...

n the summer of 1962, the unthinkable happened at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary ... familiar with the prison's grim reputation. Johnson was found lifeless in his home, and despite the absence ...

But the federal government runs only one "Supermax:" the notorious US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado. More widely known as the ADX or the "Alcatraz of the ...