10 prisoners moved after New Year’s riot at Hull jail
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The Canadian Press
Quebec provincial police are expected to launch an investigation into an uprising by inmates who vandalized a detention centre in Hull.
A news release from Quebec’s Public Safety Ministry says around 15 prisoners at the Hull Detention Centre in Gatineau, Que., refused to return to their cells Monday at 11 p.m.
The release says the inmates damaged doors, windows and their jail cells before prison staff regained control more than three hours later.
No injuries were reported, but CBC’s French-language service Radio-Canada reported that pepper spray was used on prisoners.
The ministry says 10 of the detainees involved have been transferred to another prison.
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