Bondi Transfers Biden-Commuted Inmates to Supermax Prison

Attorney General Pam Bondi is taking swift action to rein in one of the Biden administration’s most reckless justice decisions: the mass commutation of federal death row inmates. This week, eight of those once-condemned murderers were transferred to the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado better known as ADX, the nation’s most secure federal prison.

These eight are just the beginning. DOJ officials say all 37 of the death row inmates whose sentences were commuted by Biden in December 2024 are expected to be moved to ADX by early next year.

“President Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of these monsters showed abhorrent disregard for our justice system and total disrespect for victims’ families,” Bondi said in a statement.

These aren’t low-level, non-violent offenders. These men were convicted of some of the most heinous and sadistic crimes imaginable:

• One murdered a married couple while they were camping in a national forest.

• Another tied a bank president to a concrete block and threw him off a bridge.

• Several killed fellow inmates while already in custody, proving they remain a danger even behind bars.

And yet, Joe Biden commuted their death sentences anyway, granting them life in prison rather than execution without so much as warning the victims’ families.

This isn’t criminal justice reform. It’s moral collapse.

Bondi, acting on directives aligned with President Trump’s law-and-order agenda, isn’t backing down. While federal law bars her from reversing the commutations outright, she’s using every legal tool at her disposal to enforce stricter confinement conditions on these violent offenders.

“This will ensure they spend the remainder of their lives in conditions consistent with the egregious crimes they committed,” Bondi stated.

ADX is no ordinary prison. It houses some of the most dangerous criminals on Earth including Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, al-Qaeda co-founder Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, and "El Chapo" Guzmán, the infamous Mexican drug lord. Inmates at ADX spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement under intense surveillance.

Bondi's move is being hailed by victims’ families and justice advocates alike as a necessary counterbalance to the soft-on-crime chaos ushered in by the Biden administration.

Let’s remember: Biden’s clemency spree wasn’t even about justice. It was a political stunt an 11th-hour move to appease the far-left base, executed with no transparency and no consideration for the lives shattered by these killers.

• Under Obama, clemency was mostly limited to non-violent drug offenders who had met strict criteria.

• Biden blew past that precedent and gave violent murderers the ultimate get-out-of-death-row-free card.

Families of the victims weren’t informed until after the fact. Some only found out through the media. Bondi, by contrast, met with these families and pledged action and now she’s delivering.

In February, she directed the Bureau of Prisons to review the confinement levels of all 37 commuted inmates. The latest transfers show the results of that order in action.

This is what real leadership looks like. While Biden plays politics with violent criminals, Bondi is restoring a measure of justice for the victims and their families.

The American people deserve a Justice Department that protects them not one that prioritizes the comfort of murderers.

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