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[NEWS] Inmates take over Delaware Prison w/ hostages, one killed
Tactical Nuke:
wew lads
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/delaware-corrections-employee-dead-hostage-situation-prison/story?id=45217318
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Deadly-DOC-Delaware-Vaughn-Prison-Hostage-Standoff-JTVCC-412535713.html
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--- Quote ---On Wednesday, inmates took four prison employees hostage and released two of them later that day, according to Perry Phelps, the state corrections commissioner.
The all-men's facility, which is the largest in the state, was placed on lockdown and surrounded by police as authorities worked to free the remaining pair.
Shortly after 10:30 a.m. Wednesday a corrections officer radioed for help in a building that houses more than 100 inmates.
It's unclear what triggered the call for assistance.
When backup arrived, four corrections employees were taken hostage.
Robert Coupe, secretary of Delaware's Department of Safety and Homeland Security, wouldn't speculate on the inmates' motives.
At first, authorities said five employees had been taken hostage. But they later found that one of the staff members was in another part of the building, Coupe said.
Negotiations wore on throughout Wednesday. Prisoners demanded better conditions at the prison, including education, rehabilitation programs and better training for prison guards, according to radio traffic picked up by CNN reporters. Negotiators cautioned the prisoners that these were things that would not happen overnight.
The radio traffic also indicated that a negotiator was concerned about a woman being held hostage and repeatedly asked to talk to a man being held hostage, to no avail.
Around 2:30 p.m., one officer was released and taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, officials said.
Shortly before 8 p.m., a second officer was let go, Coupe said. A helicopter with CNN affiliate WPVI-TV showed footage of the second hostage being wheeled out on a stretcher. That person is undergoing a health evaluation, Coupe said.
Along with the two hostages, 27 inmates who had been in the same building were released and taken back into custody. Officials couldn't say whether those inmates also had been held against their will.
The correctional facility is about 90 miles east of Washington, and houses 2,500 inmates who are in minimum-, medium- and maximum-security cells. Death row inmates are also held there.
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/discuss
PhantOS:
c'mon prison industrial complex. you earn billions a year, this stuff shouldn't happen
Magus:
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Better education and rehabilitation would help reduce recidivism.
beachbum111111:
This is why you should annex Canada and relocate all your prisons to the northern wasteland. Even if they do escape were will they go?
Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote from: Magus on February 02, 2017, 11:19:20 AM ---The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Better education and rehabilitation would help reduce recidivism.
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what better way to drive that point home than to take and kill hostages in a violent prison riot