A Hays State Prison is transferring prisoner's out of the facility to other prisons in order to work on the facility.

That's what reliable sources have told AM1180. According to those sources, one thing that will be addressed is the prison's cell door locking mechanisms.

The prison reportedly has begun with the transfer of its most dangerous prisoners. 

Anyone in downtown Summerville about 8 a.m. Thursday morning probably noticed the van and bus going through town.  

The prisoners are taken to the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson then immediately transferred to other facilities.

That's what was taking place on Tuesday when a 19-year-old inmate from Hays Prison  was killed after leaving Hays Prison.

Autopsy reports show that Pippa Hall-Jackson died from a stab wound to the chest. His death was ruled a homicide.

According to information received by AM 1180 Hall-Jackson was killed within minutes after getting off the bus from Hays Prison at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison.  He was killed by another Hays inmate that had been transported.  

The transfer on Thursday is thought to have gone smoothly.