TEXAS PRISON RIOT: THOUSANDS OF INMATES SEIZE CONTROL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
Feb. 21, 2015
At least two thousand low-level offenders, mostly illegal immigrants, have taken control of parts of the Willacy County Correctional Center in Raymondville. Negotiations are underway.
The prison was practically run over by the inmates, who continue to hold down the fort. It still remains unclear what medical service issues had upset the inmates. Only around 800 to 900 inmates have refused to riot in a facility that holds some 2,900 people, most of whom are immigrants with criminal record.
Negotiations were ongoing Saturday in an effort to “regain complete control”of the prison after multiple agencies, including federal and state authorities, became involved in securing the perimeter, said Ed Ross, a spokesman for the US Bureau of Prisons. The spokesman added that prisoners are “now compliant,” but might be moved to other institutions as damage from rioting made the facility“uninhabitable.”
FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said Saturday evening that the situation “is not resolved, though we’re moving toward a peaceful resolution,” at the correctional facility run by Management & Training Corp. (MTC)
According to MTC, on Friday inmates “breached” their barracks and reached the recreation yard, setting fire inside three of the prison’s housing units.
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