Bergami was the warden of a medium-security federal prison in New Jersey when bureau officials asked him to run Thomson. He hired Denny Whitmore, another 30-year veteran of the federal prison ...

M onths after officials closed a violent federal prison unit in Illinois, a new report reveals more accounts of a pervasive culture of abuse inside and calls for an investigation of the officers ...

Thomson prison was built in 2001. But budget troubles kept it from fully opening and its 1,600 cells housed fewer than 200 inmates before the facility was closed in preparation for a sale in 2009.

A former candidate for Evansville mayor and Vanderburgh County Commissioners is now serving time in federal prison.

Where is Thomson prison, the Illinois correctional center housing Ed Burke? Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke was lodged at a federal minimum security camp in Thomson, Illinois, a village of around 500 ...

The NBC 5 Investigates Team has learned that less than one year after ex-Ald. Ed Burke was sent to prison, he is preparing to ...

Dire conditions at a unit in the Thomson federal penitentiary prompted “immediate” changes, and a temporary reduction of the prison’s population. By Glenn Thrush WASHINGTON — The Bureau of ...

According to AFGE Local Union 4070, which represents Thomson's prison workers, the employee was exposed on Monday, Sept. 2. The worker was given a dose of Narcan and hospitalized following the event.

Thomson federal prison still on lockdown following third alleged staff drug exposure in weeks. According to AFGE Local Union 4070, ... (FCI) Thomson in Thomson, Illinois, ...

THOMSON — Fifteen corrections officers at the Thomson federal prison were sent to local hospitals Wednesday, April 16, after they were exposed in the prison mail room to what is believed to be a ...

THOMSON, Ill. — The prospect of Thomson Correctional Center being turned into a federal prison that would house some detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, earned the full support Saturday of ...

The prison’s union president, Jon Zumkehr said. This incident was the fourth possible exposure to an “unknown substance” since Aug. 18, according to the spokesperson from the Federal Bureau ...