Investigators from California's Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and District Attorney's Office are looking into a recent inmate uprising at the Sacramento Main Jail that left several deputies and inmates injured.

According to recent reports from the Sacramento Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. R.L. Davis, the incident happened last Thursday when six inmates flooded part of the facility's eighth floor maximum security housing unit. Davis said the inmates blocked cell doors with towels and flooded five cells with at least three inches of water. The Sheriff's Custody Emergency Response Team responded to the uprising, using "flash bang" stun grenades to disorient the inmates while deputies forcibly extracted them from the cells.

Davis said several of the inmates as well as a number of the CERT team members were injured in the extraction process, though none of the injuries were life-threatening. The CERT team was deployed after a careful evaluation of the inmates involved, which included several murder suspects with gang affiliations.