The Nation - News from Jan. 5, 1986
Prison guards cleaned up wreckage in a wing of the West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville and searched for weapons possibly hidden by about 200 convicts during a two-day riot that claimed the lives of three inmates believed to be informers. Deputy Corrections Commissioner William Whyte said it was “solid speculation” that the three inmates were charged, convicted and executed by a kangaroo court, apparently for being informers. Officials said all missing prisoners were accounted for.
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