CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN QUENTIN : Weapons Prompt Lock-Down
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
After discovering a dozen “inmate-manufactured” stabbing weapons in a routine search, San Quentin state prison officials ordered a lock-down in anticipation of a possible conflict between rival street factions or ethnic groups among the prisoners. Guards found the weapons--ranging in size from half an inch wide to ice-pick-shaped devices up to 11 inches long--in a search of a lower exercise yard.
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