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Inmates clash in prison fight
Summary from United States, from articles in English
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Three of the injured prisoners remained in serious condition at area hospitals yesterday, a spokesman with the Maryland Division of Correction said. (article 2)
Corrections officers manned the closed gates yesterday to a street that runs through the downtown state prison complex, checking employee IDs and fielding questions from inmates' relatives. (article 2)
The inmates with the worst wounds were taken to area hospitals - three with critical injuries that could be considered life-threatening, said Major Priscilla Doggett (article 3)
Doggett said the fight broke out about 1:30 p.m. in the exercise yard of the facility in the downtown state prison complex off Madison Street. (article 3)
The penitentiary, which opened in 1811 with 51 convicts in what were then the outskirts of Baltimore, was hailed as a humane alternative to sentencing convicts to duty on the city's " wheelbarrow gangs Shugg wrote. (article 4)
(AP) A fight broke out among inmates in a prison yard Friday, injuring 18 prisoners, three of them critically, prison officials said. (article 1)
Authorities said that no employees were hurt in the brawl at the Metropolitan Transition Center in east Baltimore, but that the prison was being locked down. (article 1)
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Story keywords
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inmates, prison, corrections, Transition, Penitentiary |
Source articles
- 3 Badly Hurt In Baltimore Prison Fight, 18 Inmates Were Injured At The Baltimore Correction Facility; No Employees Were Hurt (CBS News, 06/01/2007, 210 words)
- Prison remains locked down (baltimoresun.com, 06/03/2007, 991 words)
- Inmates clash in prison fight (baltimoresun.com, 06/02/2007, 583 words)
- Old 'Pen' has a violent past (baltimoresun.com, 06/02/2007, 579 words)
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