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BOP Compromises on Plan to Transfer Prisoners from FCI Danbury

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2013 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News December, 2013, page 32
Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Transfers. Location: Connecticut.

In an unexpected turnabout, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has modified its July 2013 decision to transfer all prisoners from the only federal women’s facility in the northeast, located in Danbury, Connecticut. The BOP had planned to ship 1,120 prisoners held at FCI Danbury to a recently-opened 1,800-bed facility …

 

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