Posted on 08/22/2009 5:25:42 AM PDT by Cheap_Hessian
BURGIN, Ky. (AP) - Rioting inmates started several fires at a central Ky. prison, and damage to several buildings was so extensive that officials have to bus some of the facility's 1,200 prisoners elsewhere, police said Saturday.
State police Lt. David Jude said firefighters had extinguished the blazes set at the medium-security Northpoint Training Center in a rural area 30 miles south of Lexington.
Buses started to transport the first prisoners shortly after 6 a.m., but it wasn't immediately known where they were going and whether all the inmates would have to be moved.
"To me it would seem like a pretty daunting task to move that many inmates suddenly from one place," Jude said.
Jude said the prisoners housed at Northpoint were still being kept early Saturday in an outdoor courtyard surrounded by prison guards and with police forming a perimeter around the outside of the facility to make sure none escaped.
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Just a language note.
From link
“Officers in riot gear rushed the prisoners with tear gas”
And then there’s a softer and gentler description:
“the SORT team and KSP activated chemical agents in an attempt to encourage inmates to surrender.”
From
http://www.wkyt.com/wymtnews/headlines/54042757.html
Makes it sound like they opened up some Glade aerosol canisters and distributed them to the cons.
;)
Send them up to Michigan and beat the Gitmo rush.
I didn’t realize it was a prison. It is called a “Training Center.” And so the trainees think they are incharge of their “facility.”
-Burn their own neigborhood down...
They do the same thing in Detroit before they get to prison.
why do we stop prison riots? Let ‘em burn it up, and then sleep in the mess they made....let ‘em kill each other, who cares?
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