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| Prison inmates stage protest |
| By Monterey County Herald |
| Published: 03/09/2005 |
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Correctional officers spent Monday and Tuesday removing inmates from their cells at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, Calif., after they blocked their cells from view as a protest. Starting around 9:30 a.m. Monday, inmates in the C-facility began used pillows, sheets and paper to prevent officers from being able to see into the cells, said state Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton. "There are a lot of people in there who don't want to comply" with orders from the prison staff, Thornton said. "It appears that it may be gang-related." She said she did not know what had prompted the protest except that it involved issues related to correctional officers. Officers used pepper spray to extract men from their two-person cells. They went through 26 cells on Monday and 46 on Tuesday. There are 104 cells total in the facility. The remainder of the prisoners in the cells are expected to be extricated today. Prisoners removed from their cells were taken to the medical facility to be treated for effects of the pepper spray. They were returned to their cells. Thornton said no inmates were injured but two officers suffered minor injuries. One poked himself with a needle while removing an inmate's property from the cell and another slipped on a slick surface moving an inmate's property. |
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