ROBERT HURST

The review comes after Gonzalo Lopez escaped from a prison bus last month. Authorities say he killed a family of five before they found and killed him.

Lopez somehow freed himself from his restraints, cut through a cage and attacked the driver.

A manhunt was underway on Saturday for an inmate who escaped a prison transport bus and allegedly stabbed a correctional officer on Thursday afternoon in Texas — and authorities are offering a $22,500 reward for any information leading to his capture.

Gonzalo Lopez was being moved for a medical appointment when he was somehow able to get free of his restraints and stab the prison bus driver in the hand, corrections officials said.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A 33-year-old man sentenced to death in the 2012 fatal shooting of an Austin police officer at a Wal-Mart has been found dead in his cell, officials said.

The coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the labor market have pushed many prison staffing systems into crisis.

A state prison in Hidalgo County is now the second unit the state of Texas is using to house immigrants charged with trespassing as they enter the country. The facility is the second one in the state to be repurposed to detain immigrants arrested through Operation Lone Star, an operation focused on targeting illegal activity on Texas roadways that Gov. The Briscoe Unit in Dilley became the first to detain those immigrants in July, as reported by the Texas Tribune. The Segovia Unit in Edinburg has the capacity to house up to 1,224 inmates. Hurst stated air conditioning units and fire alarms were installed at the Segovia Unit in advance of its use to detain immigrants.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is beginning to arrest migrants on trespassing charges along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's actions that he says are needed to slow the number of border crossings, jailing at least 10 people so far with more on the way, authorities said Thursday.

At least 10 people have been arrested. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott says the move is among actions needed to slow the number of border crossings.

Texas is beginning to arrest migrants on trespassing charges along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's actions that he says are needed to slow the number of border crossings, jailing at least 10 people so far with more on the way, authorities said Thursday. The arrests put in motion plans that Abbott first announced in June, when he also said that Texas would continue building former President Donald Trump's border wall and called on other governors to deploy law enforcement and National Guard members to the southern border.