By Terry Frieden
CNN
FLORENCE, Colorado — Visiting Supermax, the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” reveals nothing so much as an astonishing and eerie quiet.
It’s not what one would expect of a place that houses 473 notorious terrorists, vicious murderers and violent, disruptive escape-prone inmates brought in from other federal penitentiaries.
I’ve visited noisy, boisterous state and federal prisons, where inmates scream for a visitor’s attention or proclaim their innocence.
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