In May inmate Gonzalo Lopez, a former member of the Mexican mafia, hijacked a Texas prison bus on its way to Huntsville. Weeks later, police shot and killed him in a standoff. But by then it was already too late: Lopez had killed a Tomball resident and the man’s four grandsons.
What went wrong? And could it happen again?
Our guest is Marshall Project corrections reporter Keri Blakinger, author of Corrections in Ink.

Keri's reporting on this story and the inspiration for this episode.
KHOU's reporting on the manhunt.

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