Associated Press - June 22, 2009 5:14 PM ET

FORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) - Authorities say visits with inmates have temporarily been suspended at the federal prison in Forrest City because of an illness outbreak.

The prison says visits have been temporarily suspended because of a number of inmates with a "suspected gastrointestinal virus." Prison officials say they don't yet know what's sickened the inmates, but that they don't suspect swine flu.

A prison official says visiting hours will resume once the virus is contained.

The prison in Forrest City is a low-security facility housing male inmates, including rapper T.I., who is serving a yearlong sentence on a weapons charge.

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