Bulger had been incarcerated at Coleman for four years until his transfer to Oklahoma’s Federal Transfer Center on Oct. 23 and his subsequent arrival at Hazelton. Bulger’s fame, status as an informant, advanced age and health issues made him a vulnerable target, four prison bureau employees said. Following the killing of Whitey Bulger in a federal prison in West Virginia, Federal Bureau of Prisons employees say the high-profile gangster should never have been transferred there in the first place. Coleman, unlike Hazelton, is known for being in the “triangle” of safe prisons for someone like Bulger, Rojas said. And nothing explains why Bulger was sent to Hazelton after his extended time in the special housing unit.

Source: Huffington Post November 01, 2018 03:33 UTC