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    Five things to know about one of the deadliest federal prisons

    Federal prisoners said to be the most dangerous are sent to a special unit at a prison in Illinois. NPR and the Marshall Project uncovered violence, abuse and deaths there. Here are five takeaways.
    by Christie Thompson, The Marshall Project May 31, 2022 4 minutes

    The Marshall Project and NPR investigated how the newest federal prison — the penitentiary in Thomson, Ill. — has quickly become one of the deadliest. The story is the latest in our years-long coverage of the dangers of "double-celled solitary confinement" — putting two people on lockdown in a small cell — as well as the use of force in federal prisons.

    Here are five takeaways from our investigation.

    Officials moved a notorious double-celled prison program to a new facility. The problems followed.

    The "Special Management Unit" is a high security prison program meant for some of the most dangerous people in federal custody (though many for nearly 24 hours a day in a cell roughly the size of a parking space, forced to eat, sleep and defecate just feet from each other. In 2016, in that unit when it was housed in the penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa.

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