Racial Unrest Blamed in Uprising at Prison
United Press International
INDIANAPOLIS —
The uprising at the Indiana Reformatory in which one inmate died and two dozen people were injured was triggered by racial unrest, a corrections department official said Monday.
Security will be tightened, the official said, and commissary, recreation, visitation and telephone privileges will be suspended indefinitely at the maximum-security prison because of the disturbance Saturday night.
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