Fighting breaks out at Eastern Oregon prison
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Fighting that a warning shot couldn't halt eventually spread to 59 inmates and has led to what prison authorities call a "modified lockdown" at an Eastern Oregon prison.
The state Department of Corrections say that at one point Thursday afternoon corrections officers fired a shot that restored order at the Snake River Correctional Institution at Ontario.
But fighting resumed and continued for about an hour. One inmate and a staff member got outside medical treatment.
What the department called a "modified lockdown" meant that inmates don't have access to phones but would be allowed to visit.
State troopers are investigating to determine what caused the fighting.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
Someone must have messed up another inmates commissary for the week eh? :)
I say get the guards out and let them go at it.
 @LostSoul Not everyone in there is guilty of whatever crime they were accused of.... There are plenty of innocent people in prison, victims of a corrupt justice system.
'State troopers are investigating to determine what caused the fighting.'
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An inmate got into someones pruno before it was ready?
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Give them all knives and steel pipes. Turn a blind eye to the mayhem for a day or so. It will help to cull the herd, and lower overall expenses related to prisons.Â
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...until the ambulance chasers get ahold of it.Â
"State troopers are investigating to determine what caused the fighting."Â My guess is an anti-muslim movie.
Oh I hate it when that happens!
They don't know what caused it? What?! It's a correctional facility, like duhhhhh!
It's always about the food in prison, man! Always! (even when it's about gang strife and hatred . . . shhhhh, man. Keep it on the down low, you know, man?