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JANUARY 6, 1995                                    (202) 616-2771
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 AG RENO TO OPEN NEW MAXIMUM FEDERAL PRISON IN FLORENCE, COLORADO


     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Attorney General Janet Reno will
officially open the new Administrative Maximum Security
Penitentiary (ADX) in Florence, Colorado on Tuesday, January 10.

     Reno will tour Florence ADX with Warden Bill Story and U.S.
Attorney Henry Solano starting at 12:30 p.m. and participate in a
ribbon-cutting ceremony with the corrections staff.  Before
leaving the prison at 2:30 p.m., Reno will hold a media
availability.

     Florence ADX is the first federal penitentiary in the nation
to be designed specifically for dangerous offenders and to meet
the special circumstances of prisoners whose acitivity must be
severely confined.   

     The tour and ribbon-cutting ceremony will be open for press
coverage.  For further information contact Greg Bogdan at
202/307-3198 or Louis Winn at 719/784-9464.


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