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| Inmate injures four jail officers in Santa Rosa |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/02/2005 |
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Four corrections officers are recovering from injuries stemming from a confrontation with an inmate at the Guadalupe County (N.M.) Correctional Facility in Santa Rosa. State police said Mario Rodriguez wouldn't return to his cell as ordered at about 5 p.m. Sunday, prompting the confrontation with officers. State police said Rodriguez attacked the officers with a padlock stuffed into a sock, and the officers then used pepper spray to subdue him. The names of the four injured officers have not been made public. One had to be airlifted to a hospital in Amarillo, Texas, for treatment. The condition of the others is not known. About 120 inmates began banging on cell bars and yelling during the incident, so prison officials placed the facility on lockdown. Rodriguez is serving an 18-year sentence for convictions of kidnapping and rape, and escaping from jail in Grants County. In 1999, one corrections officer died at the Santa Rosa facility after nine inmates became violent. More than a dozen inmates were convicted in the death and the riot that followed. |
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