Lockdown Ordered At NH Jail After Inmate Rebellion
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Inmates at New Hampshire's Merrimack County jail are on lockdown after a rebellion prompted by an instruction to clean their unit.
Instead of cleaning, 12 to 14 inmates rained paper and other items for the jail's second level and barricaded a stairway with items taken from their cells. They also destroyed televisions in the day room.
Corrections officers were ordered out of the maximum-security Delta unit for their own safety and emergency response teams were mobilized.
A jail spokesman says no injuries are reported and inmates are believed to have obeyed the order to return to their cells.
A maximum of 18 inmates are allowed out of their cells at any given time.
The spokesman says it's only the second incident of its kind in five years.
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