Supermax Prisons: Created in Response to Aryan Murders

In 1983, the Marion Penitentiary in Illinois was the toughest prison in the federal system. In Marion’s maximum-security complex, the most dangerous and violent federal inmates were held; the worst had to live in the “control unit,” which Peters equated with being buried alive. Those prisoners’ few moments outside the control unit were spent shackled and under constant watch.

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