“A nationwide lockdown of the federal prison system remained in effect Tuesday after two inmates were killed Monday during a gang fight at a penitentiary in Texas, officials said.
“Multiple inmates were involved in an altercation at U.S. Penitentiary Beaumont in Texas about 11:30 a.m., according to the Bureau of Prisons. Four were taken to the hospital, the agency said.
“Two of them, identified as Guillermo Riojas, 54, and Andrew Pineda, 34, were pronounced dead by hospital staff.
“According to a senior law enforcement official, the lockdown went into effect at all of the nation’s 122 federal prisons out of fears that the violence could spread to other prisons.”
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