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| Officials: Gang rivalry led to Calif. prison riot |
| By google.com |
| Published: 12/10/2009 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A riot at a Southern California prison that left more than 200 injured and two buildings destroyed was triggered by an "ongoing racial street war" between black and Hispanic gangs, corrections officials say. The Aug. 8 fight erupted in a section of the California Institution for Men in Chino that houses newly arriving inmates from Southern California and ex-convicts returning to prison for parole violations. Unaffiliated inmates joined the brawl after gang members began fighting, Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said Wednesday. "It's just an ongoing racial street war," said Thornton. "When they come to prison, they bring their animosity with them." Read More. |
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