UPDATE: A maximum security prison in Arkansas is returning to normal operations after inmates snatched keys from three officers and held them in an area of the facility for about three hours.
Correction Department Spokesman Solomon Graves said the disturbance at the Maximum Security Unit in Tucker has been resolved, but did not provide further details about the six inmates who had taken the keys. The three officers had been released earlier Monday evening.
An inmate who had not been involved in the initial disturbance was taken to the hospital earlier Monday with injuries.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Six inmates have snatched keys from three correctional officers at a maximum security prison in Arkansas and are holding the officers in an area where the prisoners now control the keys and the doors.
The Arkansas Department of Correction said Monday in a statement that the inmates took the keys during recreation call at the Tucker Unit prison, 30 miles southeast of Little Rock.
A spokesman for the department had not further details. The department said its emergency response teams area on the scene. An Arkansas State Police spokesman said troopers were at the scene, but had not been asked to enter the prison.
Last month, a guard fired three warning shots at the same prison after two guards and an inmate were attacked in a solitary confinement area.
