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Texas suspends most transportation of inmates while it reviews convicted murderer’s escape

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.

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus at the William G. McConnell Unit at Chase Field in Beeville on Nov. 1, 2013.

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