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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Kunzelman

Judge blocks Trump administration from moving former death row inmates to 'Supermax' prison

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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation’s highest security federal prison.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled late Wednesday that the government cannot send the former death row inmates to the “Supermax” federal prison in Florence, Colorado, because it likely would violate their Fifth Amendment rights to due process.

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