WASHINGTON – The United States Federal Bureau of Prisons decreed a confinement of all its facilities on Monday after a fight between rival gangs in a Texas prison that left two inmates dead and two others injured.
According to the local press, the altercation took place on Monday morning at the federal prison in Beaumont (Texas) and members of the MS-13.
Given the fear that this type of altercation would be reproduced in other prisons or that there would be reprisals, the federal prison system, composed of some 120 centers in the US, chose to declare a confinement.
When a prison is confined, all visits are canceled and prisoners remain in their cells practically all the time, with no exits to the areas of e exercise room or the rest of the common spaces.
The two inmates who died in the fight on Monday are Andrew Pineda, from 16 years old, and Guillermo Riojas, from 54.
Last Thursday took place in the state of Alabama the second execution of a prisoner in a US prison this year, after the conservative majority in the Supreme Court refused to suspend the implementation of the death penalty.
That day, Matthew Reeves, an African-American man aged 13, died after receiving a lethal injection at Holman prison in Alabama , without saying any last words or wanting to eat anything all day.
Your defense had tried to stop his execution by arguing that he suffered from an intellectual disability and that they did not give him the necessary help to decide when in 2018 they gave him documents that allowed him to change the method by which the penalty would be applied of death.