Bureau of Prisons

The deaths of two inmates at the federal facility in East Texas led to a dayslong lockdown of the country’s prison system.

The agency that oversees the country’s federal prison system didn’t elaborate on which facilities were affected.

Prisoners have broken out at lockups in nearly every region of the country. Twelve of the inmates who escaped in 2020 — from prisons in Florida, California, Louisiana, Texas and Colorado — remain at large.

State prisons shut down visitation last March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Brandon Bernard and Alfred Bourgeois, scheduled to be executed this week, would be the ninth and 10th people executed by President Donald Trump's administration this year.