Hank Brennan, Bulger’s longtime attorney, filed a lawsuit on behalf of his family against the Bureau of Prisons in October 2020, alleging that the agency had failed to protect him. “The public needs to know why the BOP knowingly created a death sentence for Whitey Bulger.” “Although the defendants may be guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, the federal prison system also needs to be held accountable,” said Robert Hood, a former Bureau of Prisons chief of internal affairs and former warden at the ADX Florence “supermax” prison in Colorado. But nearly four years after the killing, the Justice Department has still not shed any light on how the former mobster and FBI informant ended up in the general population of one of the nation’s most violent prisons.
Less than 12 hours later, he was found beaten to death.įederal prosecutors on Thursday announced charges against three men, including a mafia hitman, in connection with the 2018 murder. “He’s an old guy, but gangsters don’t forget,” said Lockett, who is now retired.Īfter four years at Coleman, Bulger, 89, was transferred to a prison in West Virginia with a much more violent reputation. He said he kept Bulger away from the general population for six months and talked to the most influential inmates to make sure they wouldn’t make a move on the elderly Boston mobster. The USP Coleman II penitentiary in central Florida has long been known as a safe place for government informants and other marked men in the federal prison system.īut when James “Whitey” Bulger arrived in 2014, Charles Lockett, the warden at the time, wasn’t going to take any chances.
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