WASHINGTON (AP) — A 50-year-old inmate has died following an altercation with a fellow prisoner at a high-security federal prison in Kentucky.
Authorities say Brian Bennett died after the fight Saturday afternoon at USP McCreary, a federal penitentiary in Pine Knot, Kentucky. The federal Bureau of Prisons says staff members at the prison were called to respond to an altercation between inmates around 1 p.m. Saturday and secured the area. Bennett was critically injured and later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The federal Bureau of Prisons has been plagued by chronic violence, serious misconduct and persistent staffing shortages.
