The 36-year-old inmate was found hanged in his cell at about 4 a.m., said spokeswoman Linda Moodry. Sattler's was the fourth suicide in the prison since July, including one other death row inmate.

Thomson Federal Prison has been placed on modified operations, or lockdown, since last week due to an assault. Local 4070 Union President Jon Zumkehr said that an inmate assaulted a staff member ...

claiming some federal prison officials were behind a plot to have another inmate kill him. Federal prosecutors called the claims theatrical and fanciful.