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| Prisoners broke through doors |
| By kentucky.com |
| Published: 10/23/2009 |
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FRANKFORT — The locks on some prison doors at Northpoint Training Center near Danville were substandard, allowing inmates to burst through them during an Aug. 21 riot at the Boyle County prison, a state official said Thursday. After updating a panel of lawmakers about the situation at Northpoint, which was heavily damaged by fires during the riot, Department of Corrections Commissioner LaDonna Thompson told reporters that corrections officials are now surveying door locks at other prisons around the state. Following the meeting, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Lamb said inmates were able to break the locks on emergency exit doors at each end of the prison's dorms. Inmates at the medium-security prison are housed in dormitories rather than individual cells. Read More. |
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