As a correctional facility reserved for those inmates who have extensive records of misconduct in maximum-security prisons; it is characterized by extremely strict control and supervision over the inmates, including extensive use of solitary confinement.

Supermax

Explanation:

Supermax is a term used for those prisons which have the top criminals. Within the US territory, there is a federal maximum security prison located in Florence, Colorado where solitary confinement or "lockdown" is the treatment for those criminals.

The prisoners are isolated in a way that their location in a cell involves a very high level of security and prevents them from escaping or revolting.

There are further reasons for isolating for periods of 22 hours per day the inmates.

It is believed that effective and safe management of prison population will be ensured and still some major organizations like Amnesty International criticize the "effectiveness of the model" since a Supermax is an extremely isolated environment where almost no human contact takes place.

The questioned method of treating humans in these conditions still is very debatable among punitory systems for their social implications.

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