HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Part of a Kansas prison has been placed on lock down after a riot in which windows were broken and two staff members and one inmate were hurt.
The Kansas Department of Corrections said in a news release that the melee started around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday with a physical altercation between two inmates in the dining hall at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility. The release said that a “chemical agent was deployed to help gain control of the situation” and that the remaining offenders were moved to a yard for decontamination.
Another altercation then erupted in the yard between two offenders, leading about 40 other inmates to begin throwing objects at staff.
