Inside the Supermax

For Phyllis Bricker, a rare tour Friday through the Supermax
prison — where her parents’ killer is housed on death row — was the latest step in a painful odyssey as she awaits an execution that has been on hold for years.

“My parents are gone
and he’s still here,” Bricker said while standing inside the
fortified building north of downtown, at the state prison complex on East
Monument Street.

For Lisa Spicknall, whose husband
killed their two children in 1999 and was later slain by another inmate in
prison in Jessup, there was some relief. Though her husband was
never at Supermax, she was relieved to see that prison isn’t a place
where inmates are coddled.

“It does us good to know
that it’s not a life of luxury and they don’t get all kinds of
privileges,” said Spicknall, who stills grieves for her children. “Their
lives are definitely altered and changed.”

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