Jail that’s worse than death – and the state where everyone’s guilty

IF Julian Assange is convicted in the US he is expected to be locked up in a jail dubbed the Alcatraz of the Rockies.

Inmates at Colorado’s dreaded Supermax prison – including hate preacher Abu Hamza – live in 7ft by 12ft cells for 23 hours a day.

Amnesty International calls the conditions inhumane while others describe a ‘high-tech version of Hell, designed to shut down all sensory perception’. The complex, which houses 400 prisoners, is guarded by gun towers, armed patrols and attack dogs.

Other inmates include Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Zacarias Moussaoui, jailed for conspiring to kill in the 9/11 attacks.

Assange faces trial in Virginia. Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who exposed its use of waterboarding, was convicted in the state, where the agency is based, of disclosing the name of another officer. He said: ‘It’s impossible for Julian to receive a fair trial.’