Seems the Supermax Prison in Colorado seems to be dominating the headlines these days.  Richard Reid,

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also known as the Shoe-Bomber, was convicted in 2003 of trying to detonate a bomb on an American Airlines scheduled to land in Miami.  Because of a weeks-long hunger strike, prison officials have now decided medical intervention was required to prevent him from killing himself.  He is reported to still be on his hunger strike, despite being intravenously fed and hydrated.

He filed a federal lawsuit that claimed he wasn’t allowed to follow his Sunni Muslim faith since being in custody.  Despite requests from the prison for the judge to dismiss the suit, a US District judge has refused to do so.  He’s currently in the prison’s medical wing and will likely remain there until he abandons his hunger strike, if he ever does.

Reid isn’t the only notorious prisoner who’s in the prison’s custody and making headlines.

Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was convicted of crime in 1996 after having been the target of a 15-plus year manhunt.  He sent 16 bombs, killed three people and injured 23.  He’s now going to court in an attempt to prevent his personal diaries from being auctioned.  He’s already lost one court battle, but it’s now up the Supreme Court to decide the fate of these documents, should he decide to appeal.  If he does choose to appeal, he only has until Monday to do so.  If he loses there, his diaries will be auctioned and all of the proceeds will go to his victims.  It’s said there are close to 40,000 pages that he handwrote over the years.  Along with the diaries, the hoodie jacket and sunglasses that were drawn in the now-familiar sketch that was used in a worldwide distribution in an effort to locate him before his capture are also expected to be sold.  Creepy as it sounds, you can be sure there are many who would pay a pretty penny to own these things.

Surely there are ulterior motives behind their motives.  Reid is likely doing his best to further his cause with his hunger strike and for all anyone knows, there’s some hidden message in every move he makes that some extremist is deciphering.  Kaczynski is probably less likely concerned with who sees his personal thoughts before his capture and is more upset with where the money from this sale will go, or rather where it won’t go.  Either way, neither of these two will ever see the light of day as free men.