Prison Disturbance Quelled in Virginia
<i> Associated Press</i>
JARRATT, Va. —
Inmates of a state prison’s maximum security section set paper afire in a cellblock and briefly occupied an exercise yard Monday before security forces regained control.
No staff members were injured at the Greensville Correctional Center, authorities said.
About 170 inmates from one of the prison’s three cellblocks were involved.
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