A disturbance at an Oklahoma prison that left three inmates dead and five injured, months after several prisoners were hurt during a large brawl at the facility.
The disturbance Saturday lasted about 40 minutes and was contained to one housing pod at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, said Steve Owen, a spokesman for Corrections Corporation of America, the Tennessee-based company that owns and operates the prison.
No staff members were injured in the incident, which he said staff quelled around 4:40 p.m.
The inmates who were hurt were taken to hospitals. It's not clear what caused their injuries. The names of those killed and injured were not immediately released.
Owen said the prison was placed on lockdown and inmates confined to their housing areas. The facility about 50 miles southwest of Tulsa in northeast Oklahoma houses medium- and maximum-security male inmates for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
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