Other new security measures for transporting inmates from prisons include enhanced searches of inmates before they board prison vans.
. He went on to kill five members of a Houston-area family before law enforcement officers killed him in South Texas, authorities said.
Inmates had previously been strip-searched before they boarded prison vehicles, prison system spokesman Jason Clark said Sunday. He declined to say what form the enhanced searches would take. Prison officials would install new video surveillance equipment in transport vehicles, transport inmates determined to pose the highest risk by themselves and enhance onsite medical capabilities to reduce the need for offsite transport.
Meanwhile, a previously announced independent security review of what allowed Lopez to escape would continue by an outside party, according to the TDCJ statement.
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