It was a series of negligent unfortunate events and systemic failures that led to the death of gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in the hours after his transfer to a West Virginia prison in 2018, ...

Bulger told prison staff "he had lost the will to live," and that may have been a factor when he insisted that he wanted to be housed with the rest of the inmates in West Virginia rather than in a ...

James “Whitey” Bulger, Boston’s most notorious gangster, was arrested Wednesday after a 16-year manhunt. Once the head of the Winter Hill Gang, as well as a top FBI informant, Bulger will ...

The death of Whitey Bulger is making national headlines, but this story means something different for a lot of people in Boston, where Bulger terrorized the city and his neighborhood of South Boston ...

FILE - This June 23, 2011, file booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows James "Whitey" Bulger. Bulger died in federal custody after being sentenced to spend the rest of his life in ...

The inmates yelled “rat” for an hour after James “Whitey” Bulger arrived at the federal prison in West Virginia. Several of them had already placed bets on how long he would survive.

A West Virginia federal prison complex, cited in a scathing December Justice Department report on the murder of mob boss Whitey Bulger, is grappling with the most acute shortage of corrections ...

Notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was beaten to death inside a West Virginia prison in 2018. He was killed less than 12 hours after he was transferred to the beleaguered facility.

This undated FBI photo found in Boston during an evidence search, and released Dec. 30, 1998, shows James "Whitey" Bulger. (FBI/AP) ...