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Hundreds Hurt at Riot in Chino (CA)

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Hundreds Hurt in California Prison Riot By SOLOMON MOORE Published: August 9, 2009 NY Times LOS ANGELES ? Rioting inmates smashed and burned a large California prison on Saturday night and Sunday morning, injuring 250 prisoners and hospitalizing 55. The 11-hour riot, at the Reception Center West at the California Institution for Men in Chino, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, broke down along racial lines, with black prison gangs fighting Latino gangs in hand-to-hand combat, the authorities said. No prison employees were injured, no deaths were reported, and no inmates escaped, state officials said. But 10 of the 33 prisons in the state system were put on lockdown to prevent unrest from spreading. Those 10 were in the southern part of the state...continue to full post

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