( NewsNation) — Former acting director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Hugh Hurwitz says reviving and reopening Alcatraz, ...

The ADX Florence is currently home to notorious convicts like Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, 1993 World Trade Center mastermind Ramzi Yousef, and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski.

ADX-Florence, where Pinson is housed, is not one of them. He's been on suicide watch at least ten times, including most recently last month.

Better known as ADX Florence, it is the nation's most secure "Supermax" prison. In 2007, "60 Minutes" traveled to Colorado and reported on life inside "The Alcatraz of the Rockies." ...

The ADX Florence prison is home to about 500 of the most dangerous criminals in the country. Almost all inmates have been transferred from other facilities, where they were deemed a serious lethal ...

ADX Florence, opened in 1994, houses more than 400 of the federal Bureau of Prison's "most violent, disruptive and escape-prone inmates," according to the BOP. Guzman, ...

El Chapo, who has previously escaped Mexican prisons — twice — will likely be sent to “The Alcatraz of the Rockies," or ADX FLorence, the US’s only supermax prison, to do his time.

Just two hours outside of Denver, in a concrete pit among Rocky Mountain foothills, sits the highest-security prison in America. Its official name is the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum ...

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, dubbed the Underwear Bomber after a failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane on Christmas 2009, was imprisoned at ADX Florence, aka Supermax, in 2012 ...

ADX Florence has been around since 1994 and has had a grand total of zero prisoner breaks. Guzmán would share the facility with some of the most notorious convicts in American history, ...

Two inmates at two different prisons in Florence were sentenced Friday for committing crimes behind bars. The Department of Justice says Silvestre Rivera, 57, was sentenced to life in prison for ...