Guards open fire during 'major riot' at California prison

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Staff at California's Folsom State Prison worked Saturday to determine the cause of a "major riot" in the prison yard a day earlier that involved 200 inmates, officials there said.

The Friday night melee sent seven inmates to area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries, prison spokesman Lt. Anthony Gentile said Saturday.

There were no fatalities, said spokesman Luis Patino of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

No corrections officers were injured.

Five inmates are being treated for gunshot wounds, Gentile told CNN on Saturday. The other two are being treated for injuries that they inflicted on one another, he said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/28/california.prison.riot/

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Back in 1968 Johnny Cash released a song "Folsom Prison Blues". Could the corrections staff just have blasted that song on the PA system to quell the violence?

[Tx4obama]

1. Yard should be divided up. 200 in one place is too many.

It is always amazing that people don't ever use common sense.

[Earth_First]

3. OR...we could release nonviolent drug offenders to probation

and really start dealing with the problem of our prison system.

:shrug:

[Supply Side Jesus]

2. should have used that special ray thingy

that would have dispersed that crowd with no gun shot wounds!