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I don't think Roof will go to ADX in Colorado, but will go to Terre Haute in Indiana:
Why Tsarnaev was not sent to Terre Haute
"TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev awaits his death sentence not here in Terre Haute, but in Florence, Colorado.
Since re-implementing the death sentence in the 1988, the federal government has executed three men, the most notorious being Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Right now, Terre Haute is the only federal facility which can carry out executions, so it seemed to be where another bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev would await his death sentence
A Bureau spokesman told News 10 the decision to place Tsarnaev in Colorado was based on unique security management requirements. USP Florence is a super-maximum security facility housing about 420 male inmates..."
http://wthitv.com/2015/06/26/why-tsarnaev-was-not-sent-to-terre-haute/
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But here is some info on ADX in Colorado:
Inside Americas Toughest Federal Prison
"...The ADX can house up to 500 prisoners in its eight units. Inmates spend their days in 12-by-7-foot cells with thick concrete walls and double sets of sliding metal doors (with solid exteriors, so prisoners cant see one another). A single window, about three feet high but only four inches wide, offers a notched glimpse of sky and little else. Each cell has a sink-toilet combo and an automated shower, and prisoners sleep on concrete slabs topped with thin mattresses. Most cells also have televisions (with built-in radios), and inmates have access to books and periodicals, as well as certain arts-and-craft materials. Prisoners in the general population are allotted a maximum of 10 hours of exercise a week outside their cells, alternating between solo trips to an indoor gym (a windowless cell with a single chin-up bar) and group visits to the outdoor rec yard (where each prisoner nonetheless remains confined to an individual cage). All meals come through slots in the interior door, as does any face-to-face human interaction (with a guard or psychiatrist, chaplain or imam). The Amnesty report said that ADX prisoners routinely go days with only a few words spoken to them.
Robert Hood, the warden of the ADX from 2002 to 2005, told me that when he first arrived on the campus, he was struck by the very stark environment, unlike any other prison in which he ever worked or visited no noise, no mess, no prisoners walking the hallways. When inmates complained to him, he would tell them, This place is not designed for humanity, he recalled. When its 23 hours a day in a room with a slit of a window where you cant even see the Rocky Mountains lets be candid here. Its not designed for rehabilitation. Period. End of story.
Hood was not trying to be cruel with such frankness. The ADX was built explicitly to house men often already serving multiple life sentences and thus facing little disincentive to, say, murder a guard or another prisoner...
In the past, Hood has memorably described the ADX as a clean version of hell."..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/magazine/inside-americas-toughest-federal-prison.html
(In the Control Unit, the most restrictive section of the ADX prison, most of the beds are equipped with strap-down rings.)
(The ADX from above. Credit Jamey Stillings for The New York Times)
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And info on USP Terre Haute:
United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute
"...Death row
On July 19, 1993, the federal government designated USP Terre Haute as the site where federal death sentences would be carried out, including the establishment of the "Special Confinement Unit," the federal death row for men. The Bureau of Prisons modified USP Terre Haute in 1995 and 1996 so it could house death row functions. On July 13, 1999, the Special Confinement Unit at USP Terre Haute opened, and the BOP transferred male federal death row inmates from other federal prisons and from state prisons to USP Terre Haute.[4] There are currently 58 inmates on death row.[5][6] The federal government chose Terre Haute as the location of the men's death row due to its central location within the United States.[7]..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Terre_Haute
and this:
'White supremacists, knife brawls and incessant screams': Life inside the terrifying maximum security prison known as 'Guantanamo North' where the Boston Bomber will wait for the needle
"Terre Haute, Indiana, is home to the federal government's death chamber
Day-to-day life of prisoners has been described as violent and secluded...
'They are in a small cell by themselves. All their meals are pushed through a slot. There is no recreation but they can go out of their cells three times a week into cages,' she told The Tribune-Star, a newspaper in the city....
High-profile inmates on the block, which has even stricter rules than death row, include John Walker Lindh, known as the 'American Taliban', and Somali pirate Abdulwali Abdukhad Muse, who was portrayed in the film Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks.
The unit's reputation has led it to being dubbed 'Guantanamo North', and it houses convicts involved in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and many hijacking cases.
There is severely limited contact allowed between inmates, and only two visits by outsiders are allowed every month.
Phone calls are limited to 15 minutes once a week - and all conversations have to be in English, Business Insider reported.
In 2008, the American Civil Liberties Union said the conditions on the federal death row were 'grossly inadequate' and 'jeopardize the health and safety of people who live there'.
Prisoners are said to wait for months in agony because their requests for health care are routinely ignored.
A report stated inmates are 'denied access to basic medical care, basic mental health care services, timely and adequate dental care and are subjected to incessant noise that causes sleep deprivation and psychological and physiological stress.
'Prisoners are forced to endure a constant bombardment of incessant noise at all hours of the day and night.'
According to the ACLU's letter, prisoners are subjected to constant banging and screaming from other parts of the institution.
They also have to listen to several deafening fire alarms each week that last as long as 90 minutes and have flashing strobe lights...
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, a black activist and writer who served time at Terre Haute wrote: 'The federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana, had the reputation of being the most racist and brutal prison in the federal prison system...."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...antanamo-North-Boston-Bomber-wait-needle.html
Anyway, wherever they send Roof, both facilities sound horrible, but the best place for people who kill and have no regard for the life of others, IMO.
