EXCLUSIVE: Bondi DOJ transfers death row inmates commuted by Biden 'supermax' prison
FIRST ON FOX Two federal inmates previously on death row one a crooked New Orleans cop and the other the man behind a multi-state killing spree have been transferred to a notorious supermax prison in Colorado the Justice Department stated Fox News Digital News of their transfers comes as U S Attorney General Pam Bondi looks to crack down on the previous administration's sweeping clemency actions especially those against violent crime The former death row inmates were transferred Thursday to the U S Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence Colorado also known as ADX Justice Department functionaries approved They are among the death row inmates whose sentences Biden commuted shortly before leaving office last December The news prompted criticism and complaints that the record clemency and commutation actions were done as a political Hail Mary and without proper vetting Eight death row inmates have already been transferred to ADX the Justice Department informed Fox News Digital bringing to the number of death row inmates that have been transferred to the facility since mid-September TONY HAWK TAIWAN AND A FLASHLIGHT TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT SUSPECT S BIZARRE DEFENSEMore are expected soon as all death row inmates commuted by Biden are expected to be moved to the facility by early next year the Justice Department described Fox News Digital The effort comes as Bondi and the Trump administration have sought to reverse several of the Biden administration's efforts on criminal justice overhaul with an emphasis on cracking down on violent crime Though sentence commutations cannot be fully reversed Justice Department bureaucrats recounted Fox News Digital Bondi has prioritized options to penalize these individuals in coordination with directives from Trump and to ensure that the conditions of confinement are consistent with the measure risks those inmates present because of their egregious crimes criminal histories and all other relevant considerations according to an earlier DOJ memo Two more monsters who plotted and violently murdered innocent people will spend the rest of their lives in our country s the majority severe federal prison Attorney General Pam Bondi communicated Fox News Digital in a report This Department of Justice will continue to seek accountability for the families blindsided by President Biden s reckless commutations of vicious predators she added Like the eight former death row inmates that were sent to Colorado's supermax prison the two criminals processed in ADX on Thursday have been convicted of particularly heinous crimes One individual chased down his ex-girlfriend from Roanoke Virginia to Charlotte North Carolina where he cut the phone lines to the apartment she was living in before using cans of gasoline to set the building on fire BIDEN CLEMENCY ANNOUNCEMENT GETS MIXED REVIEWS ON CAPITOL HILL 'WHERE'S THE BAR 'Though she escaped via a second-story window and was hospitalized for second-and third-degree burns he followed her back to her family s home in Virginia two months later where he gunned her down on the streets of her neighborhood and just measures from her mother Another inmate a former New Orleans police officer dubbed Robocop for his large physical demeanor and aggressive law enforcement style was caught on tape by the FBI as he ordered and orchestrated the killing of a mother of three who had come to the precinct hours earlier to submit a supposedly confidential brutality complaint about his behavior that she witnessed on her way home the night before The FBI had stumbled upon the conversation as part of a broader probe they had started to investigate a so-called protection racket between cocaine dealers in New Orleans and the city's police force which had been guarding a warehouse stocked with the drug The same officer was later revealed as one of the chief conspirators in the protection racket BIDEN STIRS OUTRAGE IN SCRANTON BY COMMUTING 'KIDS FOR CASH' JUDGE'S SENTENCEHe was also ascertained to have falsely testified in two murder cases including one murder he has since been linked to The statements were used to exonerate four men from prison including three teenagers who had been wrongfully convicted of a murder years prior ADX is the only true federal supermax prison in the U S and its inmates are as notorious as the prison's reputation Among them are Ramzi Yousef convicted in the World Transaction Center bombing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev one of the Boston Marathon bombers former Sinola Cartel leader Joaqu n Guzm n or El Chapo and Mamdouh Mahmud Salim the co-founder of al-Qaeda Shortly after her confirmation as attorney general Bondi issued a memo aimed at restoring a measure of justice to the victims' families The measures granted by Biden earned more criticism than former President Barack Obama As Fox News published at the time the vast majority of Obama s clemency actions focused on commuting the sentences of federal inmates who met certain criteria outlined under his administration s Clemency Initiative Bondi hosted victims' families earlier this year to hear their concerns about the commutations DOJ reported Specific stated they had been stunned by the eleventh-hour commutations and that they not been given a heads-up by the Biden administration In February Bondi issued a memo to the Bureau of Prisons ordering an evaluation of where these prisoners should be detained