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EXCLUSIVE: Bondi transfers former death row inmates commuted by Biden to 'supermax' prison
FOX NEWS ^ | September 24, 2025 | Breanne Deppisch

Posted on 09/24/2025 8:41:09 PM PDT by Morgana

FIRST ON FOX — Eight federal inmates — once on death row for murders, including the killings of fellow prisoners, gang-related stabbings, and the slayings of two campers — have been transferred to a notorious "supermax" prison in Colorado, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital. The news comes as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi looks to crack down on the previous administration's sweeping clemency actions.

The eight former death row inmates were transferred Tuesday to the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, also known as "ADX," Justice Department officials confirmed.

They were among the 37 death row inmates whose sentences Biden commuted in late December — prompting criticism and complaints that the record clemency and commutation actions were done as a political "Hail Mary," and without proper vetting.

More of the death row inmates are expected to be moved to ADX, some within weeks, according to one individual familiar with the matter.

The 37 death row inmates commuted by Biden are all expected to be moved to the facility by "early next year," the Justice Department source told Fox News Digital.

The effort comes as Bondi and the Trump administration have sought to reverse some of the Biden administration's efforts on criminal justice reform for certain criminals, and instead moved to prioritize violent crime and cracking down on the nation's worst offenders.

Though a commutation cannot be fully reversed, Justice Department officials told Fox News Digital, Bondi has prioritized ways to penalize these individuals, in coordination with directives from Trump, and to ensure that the "conditions of confinement" are "consistent with the security risks those inmates present because of their egregious crimes, criminal histories, and all other relevant considerations," according to an earlier DOJ memo.

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KEYWORDS: 37; adx; autopen; autopens; biden37; bidencommutations; colorado; commutations; deathrow; fjb; florence; presidentautopen; supermax
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1 posted on 09/24/2025 8:41:09 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

“Boys, the good news is that we have nice, private accommodations for you...”


2 posted on 09/24/2025 8:42:37 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

I think Blondi got the phone call.


3 posted on 09/24/2025 8:43:53 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: iamgalt; Texas Eagle

She got something, and I’m not complaining this time.


4 posted on 09/24/2025 8:44:45 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 )
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To: Morgana

Out of the frying pan, into the air fryer.


5 posted on 09/24/2025 8:50:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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To: Morgana
"...a notorious 'supermax' prison in Colorado"
"Notorious"? What the heck? Maybe authoress Breanne Deppisch doesn't understand what "notorious" means.

"Though a commutation cannot be fully reversed..."
Even if the commutation was granted by an Autopen and not actually signed by POTUS?

6 posted on 09/24/2025 8:51:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Morgana

“The 37 death row inmates commuted by Biden”
More like Biden’s Autopen.

“...though a commutation cannot be fully reversed”
Reversal of an Autopen hasn’t been tested yet.


7 posted on 09/24/2025 8:54:32 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Morgana

Pawns of justice. Unbefitting.

The world must be imperfect.

Go figure.


8 posted on 09/24/2025 8:57:15 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Are you now, or have you ever been, a Democrat?)
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To: Morgana

Let’s hope she doesn’t cave in and go weak once the left gets triggered by this and starts attacking Bondi.


9 posted on 09/24/2025 8:57:43 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Morgana

Is there a list of the 37?


10 posted on 09/24/2025 9:01:12 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Morgana

Ah, never mind, here is a link to the 37:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4291176/posts


11 posted on 09/24/2025 9:02:40 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Morgana

It’s unbelievable how much Biden and the democrats SUCK!!


12 posted on 09/24/2025 9:04:00 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Morgana

Since 1976, sixteen have been executed by the federal government. Trump accounts for 13 of them, executing one guy 4 days before he left office in January 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_by_the_United_States_federal_government


13 posted on 09/24/2025 9:06:08 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: Morgana

14 posted on 09/24/2025 9:07:40 PM PDT by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

15 posted on 09/24/2025 9:07:56 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Morgana

Do the cells have a complimentary noose on the pillows?


16 posted on 09/24/2025 9:13:12 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Morgana

I would prefer death.


17 posted on 09/24/2025 9:14:22 PM PDT by roving
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To: Morgana

Kind of curious why Biden’s pen-handlers would commute the sentences of two white supremacist nazis:

“Christopher Cramer and Ricky Fackrell stabbed to death fellow inmate Leo Johns. All three were members of a pagan white supremacy group called “Soldiers of the Aryan Culture.” Cramer and Fackrell claimed that their aim was to punish Johns for violating their group’s rules against drinking and gambling, but matters got out of hand. Both men had prior convictions for robbery and violence and in prison had assaulted other inmates (Fackrell was charged with murdering another inmate a few months later).”

Maybe they were cut some slack because they were pagan?


18 posted on 09/24/2025 9:16:51 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Morgana

Yoshie Shiratori was a Japanese escape artist renowned for breaking out of prisons multiple times and was nicknamed “the man that no prison could hold”.

I doubt the dimwits today are like that.


19 posted on 09/24/2025 9:23:14 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Morgana

Solace for the cons, “Stone Walls do not a Prison make,
Nor Iron bars a Cage”.


To Althea, from Prison
By Richard Lovelace (1642) (Jailed in Gatehouse Prison for trying to annul the Clergy Act of 1640.)

When Love with unconfinèd wings
Hovers within my Gates,
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the Grates;
When I lie tangled in her hair,
And fettered to her eye,
The Gods that wanton in the Air,
Know no such Liberty.

When flowing Cups run swiftly round
With no allaying Thames,
Our careless heads with Roses bound,
Our hearts with Loyal Flames;
When thirsty grief in Wine we steep,
When Healths and draughts go free,
Fishes that tipple in the Deep
Know no such Liberty.

When (like committed linnets) I
With shriller throat shall sing
The sweetness, Mercy, Majesty,
And glories of my King;
When I shall voice aloud how good
He is, how Great should be,
Enlargèd Winds, that curl the Flood,
Know no such Liberty.

Stone Walls do not a Prison make,
Nor Iron bars a Cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an Hermitage.
If I have freedom in my Love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such Liberty.


20 posted on 09/24/2025 9:31:07 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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