STATE CRUELTY

Pam Bondi Transfers People Who Received Biden Commutations To Supermax Prison

Li Zhou
Thu, September 25, 2025 

HUFFPOST

Attorney General Pam Bondi has begun transferring people whose death penalties were previously commuted by former President Joe Biden to a supermax prison in Colorado known for its harsh conditions.

“We have begun transferring the monsters Biden commuted to Supermax prisons, where they will spend the rest of their lives in conditions that match their egregious crimes,” Bondi said in a Thursday post on X.

Attorney General Pam Bondi attends a Sept. 11 observance event in the courtyard of the Pentagon Sept. 11, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. Today marks the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people. Win McNamee via Getty ImagesMore

A transfer this week includes eight of the 37 people who had their death sentences commuted by Biden last year, according to a Fox News report. Others who received commutations from Biden ― their sentences were altered to life without parole ― are expected to be transferred in the coming months.

Previously, the ACLU and other organizations had sued on behalf of some of these individuals to contest such transfers, citing concerns that they were “unconstitutional” and “vindictive.”

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Last winter, Trump railed against Biden’s commutations, though his administration isn’t able to entirely overturn them, Fox News notes.

As a result, Trump had sought to convince states to bring new death sentences against people who received clemency, but ran into roadblocks while trying to do so, HuffPost’s Jessica Schulberg reported.

So instead, Bondi has pledged to move incarcerated people who received Biden’s commutations to notorious prison facilities.

The eight affected people are being moved to the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, which is also referred to as ADX Florence, per Fox News. It’s known for “maximum sensory deprivation and human isolation,” according to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU earlier this year.

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“I think this move reflects the general effort by the Trump administration to re-popularize the death penalty at a time that it has the lowest rate of public support since the 1960s,” Hadar Aviram, a professor at UC Law San Francisco, told HuffPost.