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| Augusta County prison on lockdown after inmate fights |
| By newsleader.com - Brad Zinn |
| Published: 04/18/2012 |
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CRAIGSVILLE, VA — Augusta Correctional Center is under lockdown, and the Virginia Department of Corrections Gang Unit is interviewing inmates involved in a fight last week that resulted in the more stringent security measures, the DOC confirmed Tuesday. Around noon April 9, a decision was made to institute a prison lockdown following two gang-related altercations in two separate housing units at the Craigsville facility, said Larry Traylor, a DOC spokesman. Traylor said two inmates were involved in a fight in one of the units, and three inmates took part in the other fight. One inmate was treated at a local hospital for a broken jaw and has since been returned to Augusta Correctional, he said. Traylor said the facility will remain on lockdown while the DOC reviews its population assignments at the Level 3 prison, which he said will result in the transferring of aggressive gang members into other prisons. Read More. |
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