Security at a federal prison camp in the Texas city of Beaumont was so lax that 4 inmates managed to escape by placing dummies in their beds or having other prisoners pose as them, the US Justice Dept.'s internal watchdog says.
WASHINGTON — Security at a federal prison camp in the Texas city of Beaumont was so lax that four inmates managed to escape by placing dummies in their beds or having other prisoners pose as them, the U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog said on Monday.
Such facilities typically house inmates deemed low-risk such as those convicted of minor drug crimes or white-collar offenses.In a memo on security at federal prisons, Horowitz described the escape of four inmates from the Beaumont site. It said the inmates managed to escape for more than 12 hours by placing dummies in their beds to make it look like they were in their cells or by having fellow inmates pose as them.
The disappearance of the four men was later discovered during a morning count of inmates, the memo said. Two of the four apparently left the prison to obtain some form of contraband, it added.
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