Supermax Prison Low on Staff, Union Warns
The federal prison dubbed the nation’s most secure has dangerously low staffing levels, making it more difficult to guard notorious criminals such as Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, a union representing its guards said.
The Supermax prison, 90 miles southwest of Denver, opened in 1994 with a staff of 220 that has now dwindled to 185, the union said. The prison houses about 400 of the nation’s most violent and disruptive inmates.
A spokeswoman for Supermax couldn’t immediately confirm the union’s staffing figures but said that overall staffing at federal prisons has decreased.
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