Ted Kaczynski

Underwear Bomber moves into Supermax cell

This past week, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, dubbed the "Underwear Bomber" after a failed attempt to bring down an airliner in December 2009, joined the ranks of Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Terry Nichols (who conspired with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing) and others as one of the most ... More >>

Underwear bomber to join list of ten most notorious prisoners at Supermax?

Big photos below.​Disgraced ex-Illinois governor Rod "Blago" Blagojevich isn't the only infamous convict likely to be Colorado bound. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, dubbed the Underwear Bomber after a failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane on Christmas 2009, has been sentenced to life ... More >>

Robert Hood: A former supermax warden's resolutions for 2012

Robert Hood.​A former warden at the highest-security prison in the country -- the federal supermax prison outside Florence -- has some intriguing advice for fixing the nation's troubled, budget-draining corrections system in the coming year. Intriguing, in part, because some of the changes Rob ... More >>

Anwar al-Awlaki, reportedly killed in Yemen, joins list of terrorists with Colorado connections

Anwar al-Awlaki.​ Anwar al-Awlaki, a cleric with alleged ties to the Fort Hood shootings and the underwear bomber, was reportedly killed in Yemen, but his death strikes close to home. Born in New Mexico, he attended Colorado State, where he studied civil engineering and attended a mosque near ... More >>

9/11 anniversary: Top 10 terrorists with Colorado connections

No. 3.​The 9/11 events being memorialized on Sunday, ten years after they shook the world, didn't take place in Colorado. But our state has no shortage of connections to terrorists -- and not only because plenty of them are housed at Florence's Supermax facility. Below, we look at the most pr ... More >>

A fight over "urban homesteading" could wipe city farmers off Facebook

Reader: Brett Reese can't really think his Martin Luther King Jr. hate is journalism, can he?

Brett Reese.​A recent Melanie Asmar post spotlighted Greeley school board member Brett Reese's fondness for a letter claiming Martin Luther King Jr. was a sexual degenerate, a Communist and a modern-day "plastic god" prompted laughter from one reader. Of course, there's nothing funny about su ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Big House on the prairie

​On January 22, new President Barack Obama signed an executive order promising that Guantanamo would go -- within a year. But closing the prison in Cuba -- and figuring out where to put the 229 suspected terrorists now held there -- has proved complicated. Moving at least some of them to facil ... More >>

Into the Wild

Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie and refuses to define his subject.

The Caged Life

Is Thomas Silverstein a prisoner of his own deadly past — or the first in a new wave of locked-down lifers?

Muzzling the Messenger: A Supermax Story

The Mailman Cometh

All Hail the Mighty Thor!

Terrorist Likes Us, He Really Likes Us

Separation of Churchill and State

The free-speech chickens come home to roost at CU.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of November 27, 2003

Off Limits

A tale of two Arnolds

Pop Quiz

February 27, 2003

The Long Silence

Federal prisoners' fight to get the word out reaches unprintable extremes.

Off Limits

Prison break

Our Fair City

Denver is such a world-class town that even terrorists want to visit!

The Hit Man Nobody Knows

The government says he killed more people than Tim McVeigh. He lives in a cell a hundred miles from Denver. So how come you've never heard of La Quica?

Off Limits

Thin mince

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 3

A Plague on All Your Houses

Denver readies itself for a bio-bomb — but is the federal program behind this exercise a dud?

Look for the Union URL

At the federal supermax, it isn't just the inmates who think management is unfair.

Off Limits

Stood up...

The Oblivion Express

Comeback attempts by acts that should just go away.

Playlist

Off Limits

This Year Blows!

Kissing off a year of six-minute smooches and sex-toy cigars.

Let Us Pray

Dulli Noted

The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli, in black, white and gray.