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JACKSON, Miss. -- Officials say a prison for illegal immigrants in Mississippi was on lockdown after a riot that began on Sunday left one guard dead and at least 19 people injured. All inmates were secured in their housing units by 2:45 a.m. Monday, nearly 12 hours after the disturbance began at the Adams County Correctional Center in southwest Mississippi, Mike Machak, a prison spokesman, said in a statement, according to WDSU-TV, an NBC News affiliate in New Orleans. Officials haven't released the identity of the slain guard. Machak said 16 other employees were treated and released from a hospital...

Pictured: The Bloody, Burnt-Out Devastation After Race Riot At Californian Prison By Mail Foreign Service 12th August 2009 Mattresses are soaked with blood. Entire dormitories are blackened by fire. Facilities are destroyed and abandoned medical supplies are littered about. [Pics in URL] These are the scenes of devastation after a riot at a Southern California prison over the weekend that shut down part of the institution and injured about 175 inmates, some critically. The images chart the mayhem and violence at the California Institution for Men in Chino.

Here is video showing the fury unleashed on a California Prison by an inmates' riot over the weekend at the California Institution for Men in Chino, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles. The video shows enormous damage at the facility caused by the raging inmates, 250 of whom were injured, 55 badly enough to be hospitalized. "The riot erupted Saturday night and raged until Sunday morning, injuring 250 inmates. Fifty-five inmates were taken to hospitals with serious injuries, including stab wounds and head trauma. "The prison is still under a state of emergency," George Kostyrko, a spokesman for the...

A prison riot Wednesday near the troubled Mexican border town of Juarez has left an unconfirmed number of fatalities, news reports said. El Diario de Juarez newspaper reported 17 people were killed, including two federal agents. Ten people were wounded, the newspaper said. The tallies could not be independently verified with state and federal officials. Police official Carlos Gonzalez said the uprising occurred among members of the Aztecas drug gang housed in Module 3, according to El Diario. Some inmates were armed, the newspaper said. The prison is located in a semi-desert area 17 miles (28 kilometers) south of Ciudad...

KABUL - An American journalist inmate at an Afghan jail block seized by prisoners said Taliban militants held there threatened on Tuesday to behead him and told him he would die if an attempt were made to end the siege by force. Emmy award-winning documentary maker Edward Caraballo, 44, from New York, was one of three Americans jailed in 2004 after being convicted of running a private jail and illegally detaining and torturing men in a freelance war on terror. Speaking by mobile phone from Pul-i-Charkhi jail on the outskirts of Kabul, Caraballo told Reuters he was barricaded in...

San Quentin -- At least nine inmates and two staff members at California's death row were injured during a prison riot in a crowded dining hall, prison officials said Friday. The fight between black and Hispanic inmates at San Quentin State Prison started around 7 p.m. Thursday in a dining hall with about 260 inmates, said prison spokesman Sgt. Eric Messick. Officers armed with pepper spray and batons were able to quickly quell the riot. Authorities continued to investigate what caused the fight, Messick said. One staff member was hit in the face and chest, and another suffered a sprained...

Rudy Lujan, the inmate most critically injured in the July 2004, riot at the Crowley County Correctional Facility, filed suit today against the operators of the private prison, the Corrections Corporation of America. Lujan, who claims he warned prison officials on numerous occasions that his life was in danger because prison gang members had labeled him a snitch, was severely beaten, thrown off a second floor prison tier, repeatedly stabbed and left for dead by rampaging inmates. Lujan denied he was ever a snitch. He said the gang turned on him when he renounced his gang affiliation. The Denver lawsuit...

Aug. 30, 2005 — Inmates at a prison in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans have rioted, attempted to escape and are now holding hostages, a prison commissioner told ABC News affiliate WBRZ in Baton Rouge, La. Orleans Parish Prison Commissioner Oliver Thomas reported the incident to WBRZ. A deputy at Orleans Parish Prison, his wife and their four children have been taken hostage by rioting prisoners after riding out Hurricane Katrina inside the jail building, according to WBRZ. Officials are expected to hold a press conference regarding the riots at 9 p.m. ET. A woman interviewed by WBRZ said her son, a...

An uprising at Orleans Parish Prison and widespread looting contributed to a deteriorating situation in Louisiana's largest city Tuesday in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Tuesday, according to witnesses and second-hand accounts from evacuees. SNIP Thomas said he confirmed with New Orleans police that an uprising - and possible “hostage situation” - took place at the parish prison sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. Details were sketchy, but Thomas believes the uprising took place when prisoners were being evacuated in the storm's aftermath. It's not clear how many prisoners were involved, or how many hostages were taken, as Thomas said...

SACRAMENTO - One inmate was fatally shot in the abdomen and a second was taken by helicopter to a hospital with a head wound as guards quieted a major riot at Calipatria State Prison, officials said. Sixteen correctional officers were taken to outside hospitals, including the initial subject of Thursday's attack who was slashed in the head as he tried to search an inmate he suspected of concealing a weapon, said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. A second officer was struck in the head from behind in the initial struggle. Lance Corcoran, executive...

[A Swedish citizen who was held at the Guantanamo base has been released. The following is a rough translation of his history as published in the paper edition of Svenska Dagbladet 9 July 2004 - my comments in square brackets, ScaniaBoy] • Mehdi Muhammed Ghezali was born in Stockholm 1979 as an Algerian citizen. • 1983 the family moved to Örebro [small town west of Stockholm] • Ghezali received good grades during his first years in senior school (high school) • His main interest was football and he told his friends he intended to move to Portugal or Spain to...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier who shot dead two Iraqis during a riot at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and fired rubber bullets at inmates said on Friday some force was needed to run a wartime prison. "A few people would probably say that I jumped at the opportunity on taking a life," said Sgt. Terry Stowe, 44, a National Guardsman with the 870th Military Police Company. On Friday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld apologized over Abu Ghraib prison abuses in testimony before Congress. A scandal exploded last week with the release of photographs showing abuse of Iraqi prisoners...