His second escape, through the tunnel, came 14 years later. Guzman's first escape came in 2001, purportedly in a laundry cart and with the help of prison officials he had corrupted. Head counts are done at least six times a day. Prisoners cannot move around without being escorted. They can watch TV in their cells, and have access to religious services, educational programs and a commissary.īut special restrictions are used to ensure that inmates cannot exert influence or make threats beyond the prison walls. Prisoners are typically confined for around 23 hours a day to solitary cells, each with a narrow window about 42 inches (107 cm) high and angled upward so only the sky is visible.

11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, Terry Nichols from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, 'Shoe Bomber' Richard Reid, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and Ramzi Yousef from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York. Located about 115 miles (185 km) south of Denver, ADX Florence is nicknamed 'Alcatraz of the Rockies' after the San Francisco prison whose inmates included the gangsters Al Capone and George 'Machine Gun' Kelly, and Robert Franklin Stroud, known as the Birdman of Alcatraz.ĪDX Florence's current roster of about 376 inmates reads like a who's who of notorious criminals.Īmong those calling the prison home are 'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski, Sept.