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People who are incarcerated are at a higher risk of contracting Hepatitis C than the general population (Barbara Brosher, WFIU/WTIU News).

Man found dead on federal death row planned suicide in final weeks

George Hale

Friends of Nasih Khalil Ra’id say he was struggling to cope with conditions at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. The facility houses the U.S. prison bureau’s “Special Confinement Unit,” or federal death row.

All federal executions are carried out at a facility in Terre Haute.

NYC bike path killer convicted, could face the death penalty

Associated Press

An Islamic extremist who killed eight people with a speeding truck in a 2017 rampage on a popular New York City bike path was convicted Thursday of 28 federal crimes and could face the death penalty.

All federal executions are carried out at a prison facility in Terre Haute.

Lawsuit challenges isolation conditions on federal death row

George Hale

A lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court accuses the bureau of holding 38 men in isolated conditions that constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

Hundreds of police officers attended Terre Haute detective Greg Ferency's funeral last summer.

U.S. won’t seek death for man accused of killing Terre Haute detective

George Hale

But Shane Meehan still faces a murder charge in the fatal shooting of detective and federal task force agent Greg Ferency outside an F.B.I. field office last summer.