Two federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted under former President Joe Biden have been transferred to the nation’s most secure federal prison, according to the Department of Justice.
The inmates, whose names have not been made public, are described as a former New Orleans police officer who was imprisoned over his ties to a cocaine-trafficking protection scheme and a man said to be behind a multi-state murder spree, according to reports on Saturday.
They have been moved into the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, known as ADX, and their transfers bring to 10 the number of former death row prisoners relocated to the “supermax” prison since mid-September.
According to the Justice Department, all 37 inmates whose death sentences Biden commuted are expected to be transferred to ADX by early next year.
"Two more monsters who plotted and violently murdered innocent people will spend the rest of their lives in our country’s most severe federal prison," Bondi said in a statement.
"This Department of Justice will continue to seek accountability for the families blindsided by President Biden’s reckless commutations of 37 vicious predators," she added.
One of the inmates transferred on Thursday had chased his ex-girlfriend across state lines, cut the phone lines to the Charlotte, North Carolina, apartment where she was staying, and set the building on fire with gasoline.
Although she escaped with severe burns, he later tracked her down in Virginia and fatally shot her near her family’s home.
He was also found to have falsely testified in two murder cases, statements that helped exonerate four wrongfully convicted men.
The second inmate, a former New Orleans police officer nicknamed “Robocop,” was caught on FBI surveillance coordinating the murder of a woman who had filed a brutality complaint against him.
The killing was discovered as part of a broader FBI probe into a protection scheme between members of the police department and cocaine traffickers.
Investigators later identified the officer as a central figure in the drug-related conspiracy.
Bondi’s crackdown marks a sharp reversal from Biden-era criminal justice policies and follows criticism that the previous administration’s clemency actions — issued in its final weeks — were rushed and insufficiently vetted.
Victims’ families told DOJ officials they received no advance notice before the commutations were announced.
While president, Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death-row inmates, preventing their execution despite juries determining their crimes deserved capital punishment.
This fall, President Donald Trump ordered that the inmates be sent to inmates to ADX, known worldwide as the "Alcatraz of the Rockies."
Eight former death row inmates had already been moved to ADX before this week’s transfers.
The Florence facility, the only true federal supermax in the country, houses some of the nation’s most infamous criminals, including 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, and al-Qaeda co-founder Mamdouh Mahmud Salim.
Bondi met with families earlier this year to hear their concerns and ordered a Bureau of Prisons review to determine where each commuted inmate should be held.
Justice officials say additional transfers are expected in the coming months as the administration seeks to impose tighter restrictions on offenders convicted of the most violent crimes.
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