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| Inmates Protest at N.M. Prison |
| By AP |
| Published: 04/25/2001 |
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About 700 inmates at a private prison refused to leave a prison recreation yard Monday. ``At this time, the situation appears to be a nonviolent protest,'' Steve Owen, director of marketing for Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corporation of America, said in a statement. Owen said prison employees were interviewing ``cooperative inmates'' to determine the reason for the protest at the Cibola County Correctional Center, which the company owns and operates. The inmates refused to leave the recreation yard about 8 a.m. to go to cellblocks were confined to their cells as a precaution. The prison, which has a contract from the federal Bureau of Prisons, has 818 inmates, 766 of whom are federal inmates, Owen said. A state police tactical team was placed on standby, but was not sent into the prison. |
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