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| Officials say Hawaii inmates hurt in brawl |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/01/2005 |
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Two Hawaii inmates at a Mississippi prison were sent to the hospital with broken jaws two weeks ago after a fight broke out in a unit housing the most dangerous prisoners, state officials said. The incident at the Tallahatchie County (Miss.) Correctional Facility happened after 20 cell doors unexpectedly popped open during the early morning hours of July 17. About 35 to 40 inmates left their cells, and two began fighting, said Michael Gaede, spokesman for the Hawaii Department of Public Safety. While corrections officers were trying to break up the fight, eight other inmates attacked another prisoner in his cell, Gaede said. Prison officials had to use a gas grenade to break things up. The prison in Tutwiler, Miss., which is run by the Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America, houses more than 700 inmates from Hawaii. State officials have demanded that the company conduct a "high-level investigation." A call to corporation headquarters on Wednesday seeking comment was not immediately returned. Because Hawaii has no more room at its own facilities the state paid more than $30 million last year to the Tennessee corporation and another private prison operator, GRW Corp., to house some 1,600 prisoners at prisons in Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arizona and Colorado. GRW houses 80 women in a Colorado prison. |
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