Christie Thompson, Joseph Shapiro (2022-06-02). How America's newest prison became one of its deadliest. peoplesworld.org Bobby Everson was nearing the end of his decade-long federal prison sentence, but he feared he wouldn't make it home alive. In July 2021, he was sent to the Special Management Unit at the new U.S. penitentiary in Thomson, Illinois — a program meant for some of the most violent and disruptive prisoners, though many …