40 Injured as Maryland Prisoners Riot
Inmates at an overcrowded prison rioted for 2 1/2 hours Saturday before guards equipped with tear gas quelled the disturbance.
At least 10 guards and 30 prisoners were injured, a prison official said.
Three of the Maryland Correctional Institution inmates were hospitalized apparently in serious condition, said Greg Shipley, spokesman for the state prison system. He said the 10 wounded guards suffered only superficial injuries and returned to duty.
“It was a very tense situation,” Shipley said. “It’s still tense, but the institution is locked down and under control. There were no escapes.”
It was the second disturbance at the prison 60 miles west of Baltimore in little more than a year.
The uprising began at about 11:30 a.m. in the dining hall, where about 350 of the medium-security prison’s 1,597 inmates were having lunch.
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