Strike 2 ft. Lauren Graves Lyrics

Super max is a place that America sends the prisoners it wants to punish the most

A place former warden Robert Hood calls a clean version of hell

The public has never seen the operation inside

But you will tonight

The so called super max prison is a 21st century Alcatraz

And after months of reporting we pulled together a picture of this little known facility

The government won't say much about the place it calls ADX, short for United States penitentiary administrative maximum

I don't know what hell is

But the assumption is that for a free person, it's pretty close

Do you think the, uh, guard towers are watching us

I know they're watching

Do you think the, uh, guard towers are watching us

I know they're watching

I know they're watching

I know they're watching

Do you think the guard towers are watching us

I know they're watching

Most prisoners spend up to 23 hours in their cells

Every minute, every meal

The window in their cell is blocked so they can't see the mountains

But the federal bureau of prisons doesn't want us watching them

When the super max job came along

You were excited about taking it

Why

Well in our system there's 114 prisons

And there's only one super max

These are like the Harvard of the system

You talked about the brutality of isolation

What do you think about that

It breaks down the human spirit, the human psyche

I've heard it describe as a clean version of hell

The perfection of isolation to paint it pretty

The perfection of isolation

Is that the way it was to you

Yeah, they perfected it there