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| 7 officers hurt as Mass. jail erupts |
| By The Boston Herald |
| Published: 05/28/2001 |
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The maximum-security prison in Shirley, Mass. was in lockdown last night after seven corrections officers were battered, bruised and bitten during an inmate food fight, officials said. No prisoners were hurt during the fracas, according to state Department of Correction spokesman Justin Latini, but officers at the 3-year-old Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, who were allegedly slugged with dinner trays and kicked, suffered injuries including a skull fracture, a broken nose, facial cuts and bites. The event, which lasted several minutes, 'was pretty much spontaneous,'' Latini said. "That's a very volatile place and the officers were caught. They had one officer down and were kicking him in the head. There was definitely the potential for loss of life.'' He said the officer who suffered the skull fracture was hospitalized after the melee, which erupted in the chow hall about 5:15 p.m. The disturbance was brought under control 'fairly quickly,'' he said. A prison tactical team was activated to secure the inmates in their cells. Some of those directly involved in the assaults were identified and transported to other facilities. The number of prisoners involved was unknown last night. The 500,000 square-foot prison in central Massachusetts is built for 1,024 general population inmates and 128 "special management'' inmates, according to DOC. Three hundred and sixty-six surveillance cameras record activities around the clock, including in the chow hall. Last October, a prison chaplain claimed 30 inmates at the MCI-Shirley medium-security prison in the same complex were mistreated by corrections officers during a three-day shakedown of the facility intended to ferret out drug abusers. Despite inmates' complaints that they were choked, thrown into door frames and bitten by dogs, Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley's office reviewed a DOC investigation. "We did not find any basis for prosecution,'' said spokesman Anson Kaye last night. |
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