Judge Stops Trump Sending Ex-Death Row Inmates to ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from transferring former death row inmates to a notorious federal supermax prison in Colorado.

In a 35-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly said Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi had dictated the decision to transfer the inmates before they could challenge it.

“But the Constitution requires that whenever the government seeks to deprive a person of a liberty or property interest that the Due Process Clause protects—whether that person is a notorious prisoner or a law-abiding citizen—the process it provides cannot be a sham,” Kelly wrote.

His decision requires the inmates to remain in the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Rejon Taylor, the plaintiff in the lawsuit filed on behalf of inmates whose death sentences were commuted by former president Joe Biden before he left office, told Newsweek last year that the process to transfer the inmates “is a sham, arbitrary process—not due process.”

This is a developing story. More to follow.