California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility riot

10:12 Kern County 0 Comments

11 inmates at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran were reported injured in a riot involving rival Hispanic gang factions just after noon today, prison officials reported.Around 75 inmates were involved in the incident. Some participants used inmate-manufactured stabbing and slashing weapons in the uprising, which started at around 12:08 p.m., reported prison spokesman Lt. Dave James.No correctional officers were injured, James reported.“Initial intelligence indicates that it [riot] may have been gang-motivated,” said Ken Clark, prison warden. A full investigation is under way, Clark said.Only one of the 11 inmates was injured seriously enough to merit transportation by helicopter to a nearby, unnamed hospital. That inmate is listed in stable condition, James reported.
The other 10 injuries are not considered life-threatening, James reported, and the injured inmates were transported “offsite to area hospitals for medical attention.”
Correctional officers used pepper spray, rubber-baton rounds and two warning shots from a Mini-14 rifle to stop the fighting, James reported. Officers then confiscated 28 improvised weapons from the scene.The facility, a maximum-security prison, is located five miles south of Corcoran, which is in turn located in Kern County southwest of Tulare.