The Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its penitentiary in Thomson, Ill., following an NPR and MarshallProj investigation that exposed frequent violence and abuse.
The special management unit was originally housed at Lewisburg Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, a facility known for similarly high rates of violence among prisoners and shackling by staff. It's unclear whether the unit, which is meant to separate the most disruptive people in federal prison from the general population, will reopen elsewhere.
Jonathan Zumkehr, president of Local 4070 of the American Federation of Government Employees, the union that represents Thomson staff, said he was told jobs would not be lost at the prison, but that vacant positions would not be filled."This is a disservice, and it will devastate the local community," he said.
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