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BLITZER: There are several supermax -- what they call supermax prisons in the United States, like in Marion, Illinois, for example ...

CNN Transcript May 13, 2009 2009

Man, I hate the Yankees, too, but Federal supermax is harsh.

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: There could be some trouble at the place they call supermax, that super prison out there in Colorado.

CNN Transcript May 19, 2006 2006

People have complained about similar treatment in supermax.

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The March 30 New Yorker includes "Hellhole," Atul Gawande's exploration of the distinctions without a difference we may make in discussing torture, in particular focusing on the 25,000 U.S. inmates in isolation at so-called supermax prisons.

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BLITZER: They're called supermax, some of these penitentiaries.

CNN Transcript May 14, 2009 2009

But the whole idea that they could effectively organize while a prisoner at a supermax is a little hard to understand.

CNN Transcript May 20, 2009 2009

The Florence ADX was one of the so-called supermax prison facilities.

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Jesus Hector "El Guero" Palma Salazar, one of the Sinaloa Cartel's founders, in isolated custody at the so-called supermax prison in Colorado.

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Henderson, conceded that so-called "supermax" confinement "may well hover on the edge of what is humanly tolerable," though he ruled that it remained acceptable for most inmates.

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