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Boston Mobster Slain Within Hours of Entering New Prison

Notorious Boston gang chief James “Whitey” Bulger was found murdered in his cell on October 30 at the high-security federal prison in Hazelton, West Virginia, the morning after arriving from FTC Oklahoma City, a Bureau of Prisons transfer center in Oklahoma City. Bulger was New England’s chief organized crime figure, partly by informing federal law

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No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia

West Virginia’s prison and jail population has continued to grow despite the passage of a sweeping prison reform bill, so much so that the state has been taking bids from private prison operators to house hundreds of prisoners in out-of-state facilities. Sadly, as the overcrowding program grows, the West Virginia Parole Board denies release to

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