The Nation - News from Jan. 6, 1986

One of the guards held hostage by rioting prisoners at Moundsville, W. Va., was forced to watch as jeering inmates “carved up” a prisoner accused of being an informer, and another guard saw an inmate “butchered,” other guards said. “They made him watch. They put on a show for him,” one guard said. Sixteen hostages were seized in the New Year’s Day uprising by inmates brandishing homemade knives and spears. Prisoners controlled the decrepit building for two days and killed three inmates before the last hostages were released and the state regained control.