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Posted: 11:42 PM Nov 20, 2009
Investgators determine prison riot due to partial lockdown, not food
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Investigators have concluded that bad food wasn't the primary cause of a fiery riot at a Kentucky prison in August.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Investigators have concluded that bad food wasn't the primary cause of a fiery riot at a Kentucky prison in August.
Investigators said the inmates were instead reacting to a partial lockdown when they rioted and set fires that destroyed most of the buildings at Northpoint Training Center. That was the conclusion a 22-page report released Friday afternoon.
Prisoners started fires in trash cans that eventually spread, seriously damaging several buildings at the medium-security facility near Burgin about 30 miles south of Lexington on Aug. 21.
The damage to the prison, which opened in 1983, was so severe that some 700 inmates had to be transferred to other lockups around the state.
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Posted by: Anonymous
on Nov 21, 2009 at 10:01 AM
The inmates were having lockdown for a reason, they were already edging to do what they did. If the troublemakers were following simple rules of day to day prison conduct, there would have been no reason for the lockdown. The food from aramark is garbage, no question. The menu may say one thing and to look at the actual product, it is another. The employees also sometimes eat the stuff. But regardless of whether the inmates thought they deserved better or not, there is NO excuse for what they did and the damage they caused. The key instigaters in this are still considerd high security. Who paid for the investigators to say lockdown sparked the riot & not the food?, aramark?!
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