In a new interview with NBC News, Bulger's former prison warden deflected blame over his death and put the onus on the notorious Boston gangster himself.
Prison officials faced significant criticism last year when infamous mob boss James"Whitey" Bulger was transferred to a new prison and then almost immediately killed by other prisoners.
But in a new interview with NBC News, Bulger's former prison warden deflected blame and put the onus on the notorious Boston gangster himself."Quite frankly, I think he wanted to die," Charles Lockett, the Florida penitentiary's former warden, told NBC News."I think whatever issues he had, he had come to peace with them.""It's a tragedy, but I don't think anyone was deficient in their duty," Lockett, who retired in late December, added.
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