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News Articles: bureau of prisons

The Fulton County Jail is shown April 11, 2023, in Atlanta.

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  • News

Judge appoints monitor to oversee agreement to reform Georgia's Fulton County Jail

A federal judge has appointed a lead monitor with three decades of experience in corrections to oversee a consent decree meant to address dangerous and unhealthy jail conditions in Georgia's most populous county.

February 24, 2025
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By:
  • Associated Press

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  • News

Dozens of prisoners allege a culture of violence by guards at federal facility in Virginia

At a federal prison in rural Virginia, more than 50 prisoners say they've been abused. But when they try to file a complaint — they're stopped, often by the same guards they say are abusing them.

December 20, 2024
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By:
  • Christie Thompson

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  • Investigations

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

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.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Christie Thompson,
  • Beth Schwartzapfel,
  • and 1 more
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.

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  • Law

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

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.

February 16, 2024
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
The entrance to the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee in Florida.

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  • Law

Justice Department watchdog finds alarming conditions inside Florida federal prison

The inspector general's office found inmates served moldy bread, containers of food covered by what appear to be rodent droppings and insects in bags of cereal.

November 09, 2023
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

Elizabeth Holmes may be released 2 years earlier than originally sentenced

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.

July 12, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The federal prison complex in Thomson, Ill.

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  • Investigations

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

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

July 06, 2023
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By:
  • Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project and
  • Joseph Shapiro
Aimee Chavira, shown weeks after she was released from the Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, which is near Oakland, Calif.

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  • Law

Prison sexual assault victims can now petition for compassionate release

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

June 07, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson

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