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.
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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.
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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.
