Supermax, Florence (Colorado) — Allen is a union official and a prison warden. He has a gun and a few (slim) hopes. He tells us about himself, the astronomical reoffending rates, his disillusionment in a system he thinks is broken
and about Supermax, the mega-prison in Florence. The Administrative Maximum is all built on sensory deprivation. Even when the inmates are on an outside rec yard, they see nothing but straight up. The walls, 20-foot walls, so all they can do is look up... They see sky. They get no familiar surroundings around the prison. That way they have no landmarks. They really can't tell which way is north, which way is south. It's to prevent them from making some type of escape plan. If they said
We did the photo shoot with him just behind our motel on Front Street, the most naturally western street in town.let's go north
, if they ever made it out, they'd be disorietntated and wouldn't know which way to go.
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