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Delano CA: Guards fire rounds during fatal Kern Valley State Prison riot

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

CALIFORNIA BRIEFING Guards fire rounds during fatal Kern Valley State Prison riot March 20, 2009 LA Times DELANO Guards fire rounds during fatal prison riot Prison guards fired live rounds, pepper spray and rubber bullets to quell a riot at Kern Valley State Prison in which one inmate was stabbed to death and 17 others injured, state corrections officials disclosed Thursday. The deadly melee in the maximum-security section of the overcrowded prison involved 38 inmates, four of whom suffered bullet wounds after guards moved in to contain the riot that began at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported. The riot occurred in the general population yard of Kern Valley's Facility B at the prison 180 miles north of Los Angeles...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 20, 2009 (boomark / email).