Prison unit in lockdown
Published Saturday February 7th, 2009
By Yvon Gauvin
Moncton Times & Transcript staff [New Brunswick]
RENOUS – Unit 1 at the Atlantic Institution was in lockdown mode yesterday after a group of inmates refused to return to their cells Thursday night, forcing prison officials to call out its emergency response team to quell the disturbance.
No one was hurt and there was no damage in the incident, which began at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday when 36 inmates inside the unit refused to comply with orders to return to their cells for the night.
The incident ended at about 8:30 a.m. Friday.
The lockdown order affecting only the unit is a standard procedure in such instances and usually remains in effect until prison officials feel it is safe to release the inmates. Safety for staff, public and inmates is the first concern, said a prison spokesman.
Officials haven’t said why the inmates refused to leave.
The institution is a maximum-security prison with about 225 inmates.
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