I believe USP Beaumont has been on a lock-down recently.

Would anyone have any information as to why?


Diane

Someone was killed there at the prison early last week(that's what i heard). I'm not sure as to whether it was a guard or an inmate ,but i think it was inmate. --My husband is at FPC(camp) in beaumont, this is what the gossip is around there anyway. I know they were on lockdown. I drive by as I go to see my hubby (cops were blocking the path).

ilovedirt03

Thanks for posting!
Thats what the actually word was but its so hard to figure out the truth from so far away.

Are you in that area?
Is there a newspaper that reports the happenings there?
If so...can you tell me the name of it...I would be interested in getting a subscription! Or atleast seeing whats available online.

Let us know if you hear anything else please!

Thank you!

Diane

Diane,
From what I have been told, the local newspaper doesn't get very much info on what happens in the federal prisons in Beaumont. Further, if anyone so much as talks about the prison (or guards bringing drugs in) in the paper, any inmates receiving that paper don't for that day/issue, OR it is cut out.
When I was at the Medium, one of the guards at the low got popped for bringing in drugs. They blocked the Houston Chronicle and I think even some small mention in USA Today..
The feds don't like to share info with anyone, or let info get in concerning problems.. There is sensorship, that is for sure..

The BOP tries to keep incidents quiet but if a reporter contacts them and asks, it often then gets reported. That's why it's good when you hear a rumor about an incident in the prison, to contact the nearest large newspaper and tell them about it and ask them to print something. You often find out more that way. Zelda

David and Zelda
Thanks for your responses.
I kinda figured they don't like this type of information to get out. It could raise to many questions.

Diane

It was an inmate from what I hear as well.

Apparently fresh out of the SHU/the hole.

Just a couple hours back out on the pound {general population} and he was gone.

This is not comforting news at all.

Hi All,
Just got a letter from my son-in-law today. He is in Beaumont Med. He said there is a race war riot there. They have locked everyone down and they were given sack lunches for Breakfast, Lunch and dinner. He said that everyone is on edge. When they get out again it will be going on again because nothing was settled. So if anyone has someone in Beaumont that is why they are not getting phone calls out. I know I looked all over the internet and didn't see anything about it. There was news about the riot at a Colorado Fed prison around the same time and they were locked down too. I hope they aren't related cases. They have too many people and not enough space. So tempers are going to flare. We just have to pray noone gets seriously hurt.
Take care all.

There was a recent disturbance at the federal prison in Terre Haute, I know. I've emailed both the Beaumont, Texas and Denver, Colorado newspapers to see if they know anything - or want to find out. The BOP likes to keep these things hush-hush but I think the public has a right to know what's happening in prisons that we pay for. Zelda

Zelda,

In Terre Haute the newspaper is the Tribune Star, though in my five years there they very rarely reported on anything negative about the prison. When we had an "incident" several years back, several families, myself included, contacted the tv station and got them to report on it.