At USP McCreary in Kentucky, gangs control the prison and demand new inmates prove they haven't cooperated with authorities within two weeks or face murder. Seeking protective custody marks you as a snitch too. The speaker says prison staff and the Bureau of Prisons know this is happening and do nothing.
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I want to talk about what is happening at McCreary USP. Um, McCreary is a maximum security facility run by the Bureau of Prisons up in Kentucky, and it's a really violent place. And so kind of here is what is going on right now, and I have this on really good authority. I've got a couple of clients who are there. I mean, the staff just isn't in control of the place. It's currently being run by the gang members, and here's what's going on. So when somebody comes into the institution, when they're getting processed through, they have got 2 weeks in order to get their paperwork from their case at the district court level so that they can provide that paperwork to the gang members to prove that they have not cooperated. If they do not provide that paperwork, then they become targets and they have hits out on them and they may be attacked, they may be murdered. If an inmate who's coming in decides to go into protective custody instead of giving this information to the gang members, then they're identified as cooperators and they're similarly targeted. I mean, I've got a couple of clients who are, I mean, big guys, you know, big guys, they were really big men on the outside and now that they are at McCreary, they fear for their lives. I don't know what's going on. It seems to me like nothing like this could happen without the administration of McCreary knowing what's going on. Certainly the Bureau of Prisons knows what's going on, yet nothing is being done. And these men, you know, they're serving their time, but they didn't, you know, they didn't receive the death penalty. And so somebody needs to do something about what's happening there before more people are injured and murdered.