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        The entire facility has remained on lockdown since then, as officials claim they found information indicating an active threat to staff
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The Upstate Correctional Facility is on lockdown and undergoing a search with drug-sniffing K-9s after two incidents left 25 staff members needing medical treatment
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        In 2023, the number of people working in state prisons fell to its lowest level this century, according to the U.S. Census Bureau
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        An inmate attacked a corrections officer at a housing unit security post; when another CO intervened, a second inmate attacked them, according to the Minnesota DOC
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The Oklahoma Department of Corrections said a “human error” led to a disturbance among two security threat groups that injured more than 30 inmates
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        In one incident, an inmate bit a deputy so hard that the inmate’s teeth went through two layers of clothing and broke the skin, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The union that represents affected workers urged San Francisco leaders to deploy the California National Guard to make up for understaffing at county jails and to bolster security
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        During a search of a cell at Attica Correctional Facility, an inmate stabbed a corrections officer several times in the forearm 
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Corrections Officer Clive Lopez Jr. testified he had to fend off inmates during the deadly riot and that he didn’t feel safe initiating a lockdown 
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        One correctional officer was stabbed “numerous times,” officials said, and another suffered “serious injuries to his face”
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The Waupun, Green Bay and Stanley prisons have been under lockdown for months as the state grapples with deteriorating buildings and a worker shortage
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The rare lockdown in the nation’s largest prison system, which comes during a heat wave, is happening as officials ‘confront the root causes’ of drug contraband and violence
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Thomson Federal Prison has been placed on a lockdown since Aug. 1 after an inmate assaulted a staff member
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The judge said inmates were exposed to “mental torture” and deprived of adequate mental healthcare
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        DCCC requested a waiver of rules requiring 14 hours of out-of-cell time at the George R. Vierno Center after seven slashings last weekend in that jail
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        In March, the prison board placed the jail in a state of emergency due to low staffing levels and two top leaders retiring
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Currently, 26 inmates have tested positive; the facility is on lockdown until June 6
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        In 2018, an inmate attacked and killed CO Joseph Gomm at the Stillwater prison
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        By providing too many privileges to its max-security inmates, Ohio is both undercutting its reformatory mission and putting the safety of everyone behind the wall at risk
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The nationwide lockdown was prompted by fears of potential retaliation and concern violence could spread to other facilities
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The latest reports of violent incidents at Clinton Correctional follow a milestone in assaults against correctional officers
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The lockdown at more than 120 federal Bureau of Prisons facilities took effect at 12 a.m. Saturday
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Officials said the man couldn’t explain why he had the uniform, but he had previously been an inmate at the jail
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The first officer was stabbed multiple times and another officer that came to help was hit on the head with a padlock inside a sock
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Officials say this is the second fatality at a state prison this week
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Several inmate fights left one inmate dead and more than a dozen injured
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        The Colorado DOC said the CO was attacked by an inmate with a weapon
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Toxicology tests confirmed the presence of synthetic cannabinoids in “multiple” employees and that inmate overdoses have been caused by those drugs and other illegal substances
    
        
    
        
    
        
    
        Fentanyl and K2 are on the rise in our prisons and jails