According to Jon Zumkehr, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 4070, 17 officers at Federal Correctional Institution Thomson were taken to the hospital and a majority of ...

Multiple correctional officers were hospitalized after being exposed to narcotics in the mail room of the federal penitentiary in Thomson on Wednesday.

They can put the stuff under a stamp,” said Jon Zumkehr, a prison officer and a union president. “They can put it under the envelope, the flip of their envelope. They can soak the papers with their ...

West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency, and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...

The exposure marks the eighth incident of staff hospitalization from drug exposure at the Thomson facility in the past 15 ...

A spokesman for the union said mail is coming into the prison soaked in narcotics, and they are asking that all mail stop ...

At least 17 correctional officers were sent to the hospital after being exposed to narcotics at the federal penitentiary in ...

Several correctional officers at a northwest Illinois prison were hospitalized Wednesday after a possible exposure to an unknown substance.

Kyle Bond, 41, pleaded guilty to charges of felon in possession of a firearm and receipt or possession of an unregistered ...

At least 15 corrections officers went to the hospital on Wednesday after being exposed to narcotics at FCI Thomson.

Fifteen corrections officers at the Thomson federal prison were sent to local hospitals Wednesday, April 16, after they were exposed in the prison mail room to what is believed to be a dangerous drug, ...

Fifteen people were exposed to an unknown substance at Thomson prison on Wednesday, according to the union president. Several ...