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| About 300 inmates transferred after riot |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/22/2004 |
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State officials were transferring about 300 inmates from a private prison Wednesday after hundreds of prisoners attacked cellmates and set fires that destroyed four of five living units. Thirteen inmates of the medium-security Crowley County Correctional Facility were taken to hospitals after the riot overnight, authorities said. Four remained hospitalized Wednesday, said Alison Morgan, spokeswoman for the state corrections department. Their conditions were not available. No officers were hurt, but an inmate with multiple stab wounds was airlifted to a Pueblo hospital, where his condition was unknown, Morgan said. Another inmate was shot in the foot by officers using rubberized bullets to quell the five-hour riot, which began late Tuesday. Morgan said it started in the recreation yard and grew to include several hundred prisoners. The prison is owned by Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corp. of America. "We don't have any clear indication as to why the disturbance started," said Louise Chickering, a vice president with CCA. "That's certainly one of our priorities, determining primarily who the instigators were." Gov. Bill Owens said investigators would look at what went wrong and right at the prison, both before and during the riot, before making any decisions on private providers. Roughly 20 percent of Colorado inmates are in private facilities. The state has worked with CCA about 10 years, Morgan said. The Crowley County facility includes seven buildings on 22 acres about 50 miles east of Pueblo. The riot left four of the prison's five inmate-living units uninhabitable because of broken windows, fire, smoke and water damage, and a vocational greenhouse burned to the ground, Morgan said. No damage estimate was available Wednesday. |
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