(RT) All Delaware prisons have been placed on lockdown after reports of an emergency situation at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna. The state Department of Corrections said the incident involves inmates taking guards hostage.
Representative William Carson, a member of the Delaware House Corrections Committee, said he had been told it was an “apparent hostage situation.”
“The inmates have taken over a building,” he told the Delaware News Journal.
Three to five correctional officers were taken hostage, according to Geoff Klopp, president of the Correctional Officers Association of Delaware union.
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Guards taken hostage at maximum security Delaware prison
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#BREAKINGNEWS Hostage situation underway at Delaware state prison in Smyrna; all facilities on lockdownhttps://t.co/DYZUC4jKjw— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) February 1, 2017
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