Authorities say the move was prompted by ‘extreme caution’ after two inmates were killed on the spot in Beaumont.
Everything federal prisons Across the United States they were detained overnight in the wake of a terrorist attack at a location in the state of Texas, authorities say.
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP), in a statement, said two inmates were killed in the procession Monday at the end of Beaumont town jail, which led to early Tuesday closure. Authorities identified the men as Andrew Pineda, 34, and Guillermo Riojas, 54.
Two other inmates were taken to a hospital, although they were not immediately released.
The commission said it had “been very careful” by ordering all prisons around the country to be closed, which required prisoners to be locked in their cells and restricted.
Federal prisons in the US have more than 134,000 inmates with federal charges, not government.
“We expect the security to be permanent,” the BOP said in a statement, adding that “it will continue to monitor the situation carefully and improve the situation.”
Authorities did not immediately name the cause of the crash in Texas, but the Associated Press and the New York Times, all citing unnamed sources, also reported that members of the MS-13 terrorist group, affiliated with El Salvador, were fighting. involved in the war.
Reaching out to terrorists raised concerns about the spread of violence. The global closure is the fourth since the beginning of 2020, and some closure has been set in April of that year amid a growing number of coronavirus cases.
The national closure was re-established on January 6, 2021, riots in the US capital and shortly before the inauguration of US President Joe Biden.
Recent closures follow a series of challenges security issues passing through federal prisons and comes shortly after BOP President Michael Carvajal announced his retirement from opposition to his leadership.
Beaumont Prison, with a capacity of 1,372 men, has been the subject of intense publicity, with some officials criticizing what they consider to be extremely difficult work.
The AP in June also said security at the site was so calm that government officials secretly laughed at the “open policy”. Several inmates have been released from prison in recent years.
In a tweet earlier on Tuesday, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote that he had asked for “a brief overview of the recent violence in our federal prisons, as well as the BOP’s efforts to protect workers detained for other crimes”.
