Attorney General William Barr removed the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons, the Justice Department said Monday, replacing the agency's top official in the wake of the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein earlier this month.
Union leaders and a former federal corrections official are questioning the timing of James "Whitey" Bulger's transfer last month from a Florida prison to the US Penitentiary Hazelton, where he was returned to the general inmate population.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill backed by the White House aimed at improving federal prisons that faces steep opposition in the Senate and among advocates of criminal justice revisions.
