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| TN Prison in Lockdown After VT Inmates Riot |
| By burlingtonfreepress.com |
| Published: 05/14/2010 |
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MASON, Tenn. -- Vermont inmates being held at a Tennessee detention facility are on lockdown after refusing to get into their cells and damaging property Wednesday night. A unit of 35 inmates, all Vermonters, at the West Tennessee Detention Facility refused to return to their cells at 10:35 p.m. and began destroying personal and facility property, according to a Corrections Corp. of America news release. Melissa Nuce, a spokeswoman for the facility, said guards used a nonlethal, approved chemical grenade to subdue the inmates at about 11:30 p.m. The inmates were then returned to their cells. She said no staff or inmates were injured in the incident. Read More. |
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