El Chapo flown to
supermax prison under armed guard to serve life sentence
Experts say he will likely wind up at the federal government's
Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, where inmates are held alone for 23 hours a day and have little human interaction.
If found guilty in the States, he will likely be sent to Guantanamo Bay or a
supermax prison, with a sentence of hundreds of years in solitary confinement - or he will get the death penalty.
"He does not deserve to be in a
supermax prison. He has never committed a violent act, he's an innocent person," CNN quoted Anderson as saying.
Admitting it was "very difficult" to see Assange in jail, Ms Anderson said: "He does not deserve to be in a
supermax prison.
Yesterday, Ms Anderson - draped in a shawl with writing scrawled on it - was accompanied on the visit to Belmarsh Prison in London by WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson, and said: "He does not deserve to be in a
supermax prison. He has never committed a violent act."
"But, Yanis," he said, "if I were to go to Stockholm, they would throw me in solitary and, before I got a chance to answer any allegations, I would be bundled into a plane heading for a US
supermax prison." To drive the point home, he showed me his lawyers' offer to Swedish authorities to go to Stockholm if they guaranteed that he would not be extradited to the United States on espionage charges.
Rakesh Chandra (who provided input based upon his years of experience and expertise working with mentally ill inmates in a
supermax prison setting), "
Supermax Prison: Controlling The Most Dangerous Criminals" provides a penetrating look at the violence that swept prisons in the 1980's and 1990's and the organizational structure mirroring the Mafia that erupted in them.
The ultimate ignominy of this buildup was that society allowed the CDCR to construct, with little judicial or legislative oversight, the monstrosity that is the modern
supermax prison. This new prison architecture was, according to officials, another stride forward into a totally secure "modern" future.
I know that they did not contact Ted, who's in the
supermax prison in Colorado.
The average is nearly four years in Texas; before Illinois closed its
supermax prison, the average there was six years.