The Nation - News from Jan. 16, 1986

Two inmates scheduled for transfer from one maximum-security prison to another bolted from their guards in Ypsilanti, Mich., and took three employees and another inmate hostage at knifepoint, authorities said. Two guards, a kitchen supervisor and an inmate working in the kitchen were taken hostage. The only other person in the cafeteria at the time, a civilian female worker, escaped, authorities said. The hostages had not been harmed and three negotiators were talking to the inmates by walkie-talkie, a prison official said.