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A guard tower and prison yard at the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., in 2009. There have been eight deaths at Thomson since 2019, making the facility one of the deadliest federal prisons in the country.
Crime
One of the deadliest federal prison units is closing
The Bureau of Prisons is shutting down a unit at its newest penitentiary in Illinois, following an investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project that exposed it was rife with violence and abuse.
By Christie Thompson  and Joseph Shapiro