James 'Whitey' Bulger, former leader of Boston's Winter Hill Gang, was killed in a West Virginia prison in 2018, hours after he was moved into the facility.
A federal judge in West Virginia has granted a motion from the government to dismiss a lawsuit from Boston crime boss James"Whitey" Bulger's family that alleged the government did not adequately protect him when moving him between prisons and placing him in the general population of the prison where he died.
The lawsuit, filed in 2020, alleged that the Federal Bureau of Prisons neglected the fact that Bulger was labeled as a"snitch" by other inmates and the fact that the Hazelton, West Virginia, a prison where he was transferred to and died on the same day in 2018 had problems with staffing and violence among inmates, according to the Associated Press.
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey ruled last week that federal law does not provide an avenue for families to sue if an inmate is injured as a result of moving facilities.had many opportunities to create a damages remedy for situations where a housing decision leads to injury. But it did not do so," Bailey wrote in his ruling, according to the AP."Instead, it has repeatedly limited judicial authority to review BOP housing decisions and to entertain claims brought by prisoners.
James 'Whitey' Bulger mugshot in 2011. A West Virginia judge has thrown out a lawsuit from Bulger's family that alleged Bureau of Prisons negligence while moving him between facilities led to Bulger's death at the hands of other inmates.
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