Report states that staffing shortages contributed to inmate’s escape

Convicted murderer Gonzalo Lopez was able to escape from a prison transport bus, hide out for weeks, and murder a man and his four grandsons all because of staffing problems at Texas prisons, new reports show. A investigative team formed in late May by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows a 20-item list of failures by correctional officers that include failure to search Lopez, leaving…

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