A warden tried to fix an abusive federal prison. He faced death threats
![More than a dozen prisoners at Thomson prison in Illinois claimed in a letter that guards were bribing them to attack the warden. The Marshall Project redacted some names in these documents to protect their identity.](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/11/14/thomson-prison-documents_wide-909b9cac0d402075cf2d4d40d711bdc3dd72bff7.jpg?s=600)
He was tasked with ending abuse at a federal penitentiary in Illinois but says his own staff and Bureau of Prisons officials blocked his efforts.
(Image credit: Aaron Marin for The Marshall Project)
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