- America's most unwanted turn to the law
 - Report from the Guardian about high-risk prisoners in U.S. supermax jails seeking legal relief from the 'living tomb'. - Cold Storage
- Offers information on Super-Maximum Security Confinement in Indiana.
- Control Unit Prisons
- History of control unit prisons.
- Control Unit Prisons [SHU]
- Includes information, history, and organisation of control unit prisons.
- Digress Magazine: SuperMax Prisons in Appalachia
- Describes a tour of Red Onion State Prison when it opened in 1998.
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Supermax Prisons
- PDF file researches the goals, impacts, and costs of super-maximum security prisons in the U.S.
- Four Years in Solitary Confinement
- Details the monotony and sensory deprivation of isolation in the Security Housing Unit at Valley State Prison for Women.
- Human Rights Violations in The United States - Red Onion State Prison: Super-Maximum Security Confinement in Virginia
- Argues that treatment of inmates at Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's first super-maximum security facility, raises serious human rights concerns.
- Locked Down: Gangs in the Supermax
- In-depth feature from American RadioWorks.
- Out of Sight HRW Briefing Paper on Supermaximum Prisons
- Offers human rights perspective on supermax prisons.
- Supermaxed
- Presents issues and information about Super Maximum Security Prisons in the U.S. with an emphasis on Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
- What is a Supermax Prison?
- 1996 essay discusses supermax prisons, the peope who are put into the maximum security prison units, and the effects of supermaxes on inmates, guards, and the community.
- Wikipedia: Supermax
- Defines control-unit, maximum-security prisons known as Supermax prisons in the United States and other countries. Includes a list of U.S. supermax prison units, maximum security prisons in other countries, and famous supermax inmates.
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