Subsequent reports indicated the much-hated former Boston mob kingpin — who was convicted of 11 murders in 2013 after 16 years of evading law enforcement — was likely the victim of fellow inmates who consider “rats,” or turncoat informants, to be the lowest form of criminal.<\/p>\n
Bulger’s death was just the latest in a long string of violent acts at the reportedly understaffed prison.\u00a0Richard Heldreth, who is president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 420 in the area, told media that a federal hiring freeze had left the prison woefully understaffed.<\/p>\n
This is the third homicide in seven months at our facility. We are very understaffed, we are short about 40 officers,” <\/span><\/strong>Heldreth, s<\/span>peaking with Britain’s BBC by phone, insisted.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nHeldreth added that there had been \u201c60 documented violent incidents at the FCC, and prisons at the complex have been \u2018locked down\u2019 nine times due to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In 2018, the gaming and casino industry — both legal and illicit — saw its share of murders and unexplained deaths. It turns out the movies really aren’t that far off when it comes to portraying the possible ways to die if you tangle with the wrong people. Dead Man’s Hand Mohegan Sun Pocono dealer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":92400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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