A pro-life Christian convicted for joining a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility has been ordered to report next month to a notoriously violent federal prison, he told The Daily Wire.
Calvin Zastrow, 57, is expected to serve his six month sentence at the Federal Correctional Institute Thomson in Illinois beginning October 15. The Thomson facility has been the focus of intense media and lawmaker scrutiny over reports of rampant violence and abuse at the prison over the last few years.
Last year, a special management unit at Thomson was shut down after an NPR report found there were five suspected homicides and two suspected suicides from 2019 until February 2023 in the unit. In October 2023, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) demanded answers on how the facility handled some 275 reports of sexual misconduct against prison employees in 2022.
Just last week, the prison was placed in lockdown when an employee was hospitalized after finding a suspicious substance in a housing unit. […]
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