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The American Civil Liberties Union sought a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from moving the prisoners to the so-called “supermax” facility in Florence, Colorado. It is considered the highest-security facility in the United States.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Trump administration will pursue death sentences against federal defendants “whenever possible.”

Lawrence Taylor, 44, admitted to stabbing Jan Stevens to death in January 2019 at the high-security USP Terre Haute facility, according to investigators. Taylor pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a life sentence Feb. 12.

U.S. officials say five prisoners sustained injuries requiring outside medical attention Monday at a federal prison in Terre Haute. A spokesperson for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said that “multiple inmates were observed fighting.”

While the Trump administration can’t reverse former President Biden’s decision to grant clemency to 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, it's signaling plans to target them in other ways.

According to prisoners serving death sentences, temperatures have been uncomfortably high at the United States Penitentiary-Terre Haute. Outside temperatures have reached into the 90s since the outage began.

Indiana hasn’t carried out an execution in more than a decade. But the state is home to federal death row, inside a special facility in Terre Haute where the U.S. carries out all federal executions.

Brian Montez Williams of Clarksville, Indiana, pleaded guilty in October to one count of murder for the July 2021 slaying of 67-year-old Melody Gambetty.

The bill originally banned hormonal therapy as well, but that was removed by the House committee.

An Indiana House committee voted this past week in favor of a proposal dropping the state’s requirement that most people sentenced for least-serious Level 6 felony crimes serve any time behind bars in county jails.