NOT FOR RELEASE -- FOR YOUR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY AG JANUARY 6, 1995 (202) 616-2771 TDD (202) 514-1888 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. # # # 95-012