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| 12 inmates, 1 guard injured in Arizona prison 'disturbance' |
| By westport-news.com |
| Published: 02/26/2018 |
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ELOY, Ariz. (AP) — Twelve inmates and at least one guard at a private southern Arizona prison were injured Sunday during an apparent riot that took hours for authorities to contain, a prison spokesman and police said. The violence began around 8:30 a.m. at Red Rock Correctional Facility in Eloy, Arizona, after "an inmate-on-inmate disturbance," according to Jonathan Burns, a spokesman for the Nashville, Tennessee-based CoreCivic, which operates the prison. But Eloy's police department posted on its Facebook page about 2 p.m. that prisoners were "rioting" at Red Rock — more than four hours after the violence began. "At this time the situation is not contained and CCA special operations teams are working to secure the prison," Eloy police said at the time. Read More. |
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