Corrections Headlines

New warden coming to troubled Atwater prison

The Bureau of Prisons will bring a new warden to a federal institution beset by a rash of inmate stabbings that followed the murder of a corrections officer in June.

The warden of a high-security prison in Kentucky, Hector Rios Jr. of the USP Big Sandy, will become U.S. Penitentiary Atwater's fourth warden since it opened in 2001.

The Bureau announced Tuesday that Atwater warden Dennis Smith will be transferred to a medium-security prison in Illinois…

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