Federal inspectors have concluded that mobster Whitey Bulger’s transfer to a West Virginia prison was too widely known and lacked enough precautions. Bulger was found beaten to death in his cell within 12 hours of arrival at U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in 2018, and three inmates have been ...
On the morning of Oct. 30, 2018, the notorious Boston mobster and FBI informant Whitey Bulger was found beaten to death in his cell at the federal prison in Hazelton. Bulger, 89, ailing and in a wheelchair, had been at the prison just 12 hours. But he never should have been there at ...
The last of three men indicted for their roles in the 2018 murder of James “Whitey” Bulger at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Hazelton appeared before U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Kleeh for an arraignment hearing Wednesday afternoon in Clarksburg. Bulger, who was known for ...