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Corrections officers: Sept. 10 disturbance at Kinross 'was a riot'
By wzzm13.com- Paul Egan
Published: 09/21/2016

LANSING - A Sept. 10 uprising at Kinross Correctional Facility was much more serious than initially described: The Department of Corrections lost control of the prison before retaking it with armed force after inmates did their best to wreck the place, says the president of the Michigan Corrections Organization.

“It was a riot,” Tom Tylutki told the Free Press on Tuesday. “For anybody to describe it as anything other than that is just amazing to us.”

Corrections Department spokesman Chris Gautz has rejected suggestions that the disturbances at Kinross, near Kincheloe in the Upper Peninsula, should be described as a riot.

"It was a very serious situation," but "there was no loss of control of the facility whatsoever," and "this was not a riot," Gautz said. The incident resulted in major damage but no injuries.

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