Feds regain control of South Texas prison
RAYMONDVILLE — Authorities began moving inmates from the federal prison here to other facilities on Sunday after regaining control of the prison.
More than 300 of the 2,800 inmates were loaded onto buses Sunday morning and were to be transferred to other federal prisons in the region, Management and Training Corp., the company that operates the complex for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, said in a statement.
“Inmates continue to be fully cooperative with the relocation process,” the statement said.
The inmates are being moved because they severely damaged their housing units after a prisoner uprising on Friday, leaving the units “uninhabitable,” officials said.
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