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A warden faced discipline over abuse at a prison. Now he runs a prison training site

2:51pm November 01, 2024

Investigators said warden Andrew Ciolli should have stopped abuse of prisoners. He faced disciplinary action. Now he's the director of a federal center that teaches others how to run prisons.

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A New York Medical Examiner's car is parked outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center where financier Jeffrey Epstein was being held in New York. Epstein committed suicide in prison.

Politics & Government

DOJ watchdog finds 187 inmate suicides in federal prisons over 8-year period

5:55pm February 15, 2024

by Ryan Lucas

The watchdog's reporting comes in the wake of several high-profile deaths in federal lockups in recent years, most notably the murder James "Whitey" Bulger and the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein.

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Elizabeth Holmes may be released 2 years earlier than originally sentenced

2:58am July 12, 2023

by The Associated Press

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' sentence hasn't changed, but like all prisoners who follow the rules, she can qualify for early release under the federal government's "good time" guidelines.

The federal prison complex in Thomson, Ill.

New accounts of abuse at federal prison prompt renewed calls for investigation

4:29pm July 06, 2023

More than 120 prisoners held at a special unit in Thomson Penitentiary reported mistreatment, a Washington Lawyers' Committee report says.

Aimee Chavira, shown weeks after she was released from the Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, which is near Oakland, Calif.

Politics & Government

Prison sexual assault victims can now petition for compassionate release

5:00am June 07, 2023

by Carrie Johnson

Advocates are hoping more survivors of sexual assaults in federal prison can use a new method to win early release.