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Cowboys and Prisoners
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2001
by Willie Wisely
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2001, page 1
Trumpeted as the pinnacle of high-tech prison architecture when it opened in 1993, the Federal Correctional Complex in Florence, Colorado, contains two lower security facilities, one maximum security prison, and, since 1994, the Clockwork Orange inspired U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum. The steel and concrete citadels are rimmed by verdant hills …
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Guard Unions.
Location:
Colorado.
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