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| Riot by Indiana prisoners caused $14,000 in damage, report says |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 09/03/2001 |
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A nine-hour riot by Indiana inmates being held at an eastern Kentucky prison last month caused $14,000 in damage, prison officials say. The new warden at Otter Creek Correctional Center at Wheelwright said the facility's former supervisors failed to adjust to a tougher classification of inmates in January 2000 when the prison, which had been a minimum-security facility for Kentucky inmates, began taking medium-security prisoners from Indiana. 'As far as I can tell, and I'm at the mercy of my staff, things just never changed,' Warden Randy Stovall said. Stovall replaced former warden William Wolford, who was fired after the July 5 riot. The prison is owned by Corrections Corp. of America, a private Nashville-based company that owns three prisons in Kentucky. A CCA summary of the incident said hundreds of inmates detained in the remote mountain prison tossed commodes, televisions and sinks out of the prison and burned clothes, bedding and mattresses before surrendering as special-response officers gathered outside the razor-wire fences to storm the prison. No prison employees were injured, and only two inmates received minor injuries, inflicted by other inmates, the summary said. |
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