Investigating deaths at the Thomson prison

Bobby Everson. Matthew Phillips. Edsen Aaron Badoni. Boyd Weekley. Patrick Bacon. Shay Paniry. James Everett.

Since 2019, these seven individuals have died – by suspected homicide or alleged suicide – at the United States Penitentiary in Thomson, a village of fewer than 1,000 people in northwest Illinois.

The Marshall Project's Christie Thompson and NPR's Joe Shapiro co-published an investigation of the prison entitled How the newest federal prison became one of the deadliest. They join The 21st Show to discuss the suspicious deaths. 

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Christie Thompson
Staff Writer, The Marshall Project

Joseph Shapiro
NPR News Investigations Correspondent

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