Resource: An American Gulag: Descending into Madness at Supermax

By: Andrew Cohen

June 18, 2012

theatlantic.com

This is the first in a three-part series about the new class-action lawsuit filed Monday against the Bureau of Prison and the officials who run ADX-Florence, the so-called "Supermax" facility that houses some of the nation's most dangerous criminals. The second part will focus on the plaintiffs named in the lawsuit. The third part will focus upon some of the many legal issues involved in the litigation.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/06/an-american-gulag-descending-into-madness-at-supermax/258323/

Resource Type(s):

Case Studies

Institution: The Atlantic

Related Cases:

Cunningham v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

Vega v. Davis