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He Spent Years in Federal Prisons. Now He’s Helping to Lead Them.

The Bureau of Prisons’ new deputy director’s past incarceration has drawn outrage from some officers — and support from people still inside.

Analysis • 06.20.2025

Who Is Billy Marshall? What to Know About Trump’s New Bureau of Prisons Director

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

News • 04.12.2025

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