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BALTIMORE — As with many death row inmates, the final days before Dustin John Higgs’ scheduled execution Friday are marked by a flurry of last-minute legal appeals to spare his
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has removed a senior prison official from his position as a death-row counselor in the wake of charges that he used an anonymous Twitter account to troll a death-penalty activist and to mock federal death-row prisoners. Andrew Sutton, a Special Confinement Unit (SCU) Counselor at the Federal Correctional Complex — Terre Haute, was quietly reassigned after he was linked to a Twitter account named fozzythebear that, a lawsuit alleges, disparaged, defamed, and taunted an anti-death penalty lawyer. The lawsuit, filed on December 28, 2020 by Ashley Kincaid ...
Tribune-Star file photo Cases of COVID-19 at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute have increased by 46 percent in about a week, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons data. As of Monday afternoon, 410 inmates and three staff members had tested positive at the high-security U.S. Penitentiary. At the adjacent Federal Correctional Institute — a medium-security prison — 48 inmates and 18 staff are COVID-19 positive, according to the BOP.gov website. A screenshot of the BOP.gov website on coronavirus information shows Terre Haute's U.S. Penitentiary leading the nation's federal...
Alfonso Rodriquez Jr. (Fed. Bureau of Prisons) TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (KVRR) – The federal prison where Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. remains on death row has more COVID-19 cases than any other federal prison in the nation. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, there are currently 410 inmates and 3 staff members with confirmed active COVID-19 cases at the U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind. The Terre Haute facility houses all inmates awaiting federal execution. There’s no official word on how many inmates in the prison’s Special Confinement Unit, where death row inmates are held, have teste...
Cases of COVID-19 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, have increased dramatically in recent weeks and have spread to include death row inmates scheduled for execution. As of Tuesday afternoon, the United States Penitentiary (USP) at Terre Haute had the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the federal prison system with 281 inmates testing positive, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) website. That was an increase over the 252 reported in the previous daily update. An additional 51 inmates and 22 staff members were reported as testing positive at the adjace...