Advocate staff writer David Brock is on the scene at Northpoint Training Center in Boyle County where a prison riot has broken out. At 9 p.m., Brock reported that Northpoint staff and Kentucky State Police were entering the complex with riot gear and were firing tear gas. Loud explosions could be heard along with demands over megaphones for the inmates to surrender.
Mendolyn Cochran, public information officer at the facility, said the prison has been on lockdown since Tuesday, when 10-15 Hispanic inmates assaulted a black inmate and a white inmate. The entire yard was locked down. Today, Cochran said the administration announced limited leniency, but at 6:30 p.m., inmates set fires in trash cans in the wings of one building. All inmates were called to the yard, where they continued to set fires in cans and destroyed property. At last report, two buildings, the canteen and the multi-purpose building, were ablaze. Cochran said no hostages had been taken and no injuries reported.
Amnews.com will update as information becomes available. Look for a full report in The Kentucky Advocate on Sunday
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