Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary 'worst inmates' to transfer out later this year

June 11, 2018

Ongoing, Quoted, Outside Reporting, Prison Conditions

June 11, 2018 | John Beauge | PennLive

LEWISBURG - The mission of the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary is about to change after nearly a decade of housing the worst of the worst inmates who have created problems in other prisons.

The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has announced it is transferring the special management unit from Lewisburg to a high-security prison in Thomson, Ill. The first transfers are expected to take place late this year.

Special management inmates are locked in their cells 23 hours a day, eat their meals there and are escorted to recreation pens.

Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project

July 15, 2016

Prison Conditions, PA Regulations, Ongoing, Outside Reporting

Inmate allowed to pursue suit over use of restraints because he refused to accept cellmate

Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project

July 15, 2016

Prison Conditions, PA Regulations, Ongoing, Outside Reporting

July 15, 2016 | John Beauge | PennLive

Sebastian Richardson contends when he refused to accept a cellmate at the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary out of safety fears that he was held in restraints for nearly a month in 2011.

He filed a federal lawsuit that year alleging officials at Lewisburg violate policy by using restraints to punish inmates who refuse a hostile cellmate.