In Prison, White Supremacist Literature Is Required Reading

Supermax prisons are high-security facilities designed to hold the most dangerous or disruptive inmates in conditions of extreme isolation.

Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone, New York, is one such prison, located near the Canadian border.

These facilities use solitary confinement, a practice where inmates are kept alone in small cells for 22 to 24 hours a day with minimal human interaction.

The term the box refers to solitary confinement cells, which are often windowless and devoid of distractions.

Inmates in supermax prisons like Upstate Correctional Facility may spend years or even decades in these conditions, which are intended to prevent violence within the prison system but have been widely criticized for their psychological effects on prisoners.