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| Surveillance video, photos tell story of riot wreckage by Shirley prison inmates |
| By wpri.com- Bill Tomison |
| Published: 01/11/2017 |
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SHIRLEY, Mass. (WPRI/AP) — For some hours Monday afternoon, several dozen inmates at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass. ran amok in one of the prison units, according to the Massachusetts Department of Correction, leaving equipment, supplies and parts of the building torn to bits once corrections officers were able to restore order. When a fight broke out in the general population, the department said in a statement on Facebook, officers tried to order about 46 inmates back into their cells so they could investigate what happened. Another fight started between two inmates. While officers were able to restrain one of them and take them out of the area, the rest of the inmates started refusing to be secured. “The decision was made to pull the staff from the housing unit for their safety,” corrections officials said. A “disorder” condition was declared in the unit about 3:50 p.m. Inmates left on their own in the unit tore the place apart, breaking off sprinkler heads, destroying surveillance camera systems and a computer system, breaking into cabinets, breaking ceiling tiles, breaking furniture. In the three hours before order was restored, many of the inmates fashioned crude weapons and set off fire extinguishers. Read More. |
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