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The deaths of two inmates at the federal facility in East Texas led to a dayslong lockdown of the country’s prison system.
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The agency that oversees the country’s federal prison system didn’t elaborate on which facilities were affected.
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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.
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State prisons shut down visitation last March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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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.