HOUSTON (AP) — A multitude of security lapses such as inadequate strip searches, poorly applied restraints, a staffing shortage and an environment where correctional officers became complacent created the conditions that led to the May escape of a Texas inmate, resulting in the deaths of five people, according to two reviews of the incident that were released Thursday.
Richard Plata, 23, was arrested and charged with the murder of an elderly man at an abandoned apartment in Houston. Police say Plata was friends with the 67-year-old when he killed him