Duluth federal prison camp closure in apparent limbo
A plan to close the federal prison camp here appears to be on pause as lawmakers ask the Trump administration to reverse the decision.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons said in December the minimum-security Duluth facility was among seven across the country to be deactivated, which is just short of permanently closed. It would mean transferring about 700 inmates and displacing 90 federal workers, some to a prison facility in Sandstone, Minn., an hour southwest of Duluth.
The president of a union representing federal employees at the prison said this week that about 200 inmates had been transferred elsewhere as of Jan. 24, which had been a transfer deadline for all. A spokeswoman from the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a Tuesday email that the bureau is “conducting an assessment of the facility and our population needs” in order i to determine next steps, but did not explain why only some inmates had been transferred.
