...According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, the BOP created these units to isolate and segregate certain prisoners in the federal prison system from the rest of the federal inmate population in order to more closely monitor any interaction with the outside world. It is not a large cohort of inmates in these units. The CMU in Terre Haute houses between 60 and 70 prisoners. One inmate there is an imprisoned human rights activist, alleged Anonymous hacker, and journalist named Martin Gottesfeld. ...

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