Some of the inmates were unhappy with limited access to showers, phone use and recreation “due to staffing challenges,” a prison spokesman said.
DOC spokesman Andy Skoogman said no injuries were reported at Stillwater Prison, which remained on lockdown Sunday night. The agency brought in negotiators and prison officers who specialize in responding to riots “out of an abundance of caution.”
Skoogman did not immediately respond to a request seeking to know how inmates were returned to their cells or whether negotiations resulted in promises to fix the staffing woes.Corrections staff left the common area of the housing unit, but two correctional officers had remained “safe in the unit’s secure control area” during the incident, Skoogman said. Those two officers were consistently in communication with other prison staff, he added.
The lockdown “highlights the truth” about chronic understaffing at Stillwater, said Bart Anderson, a union official with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — which represents Minnesota correctional officers. Anderson said the staffing problems have restricted inmates’ recreation time and other activities because there are not enough correctional officers to protect the facility.The lack of staff will cause the prison to “continue down this unacceptable road of staff assaults, offenders controlling sections of our prisons,” Andersen said, adding that action is needed. “The lives of all correctional facility staff depend on it.
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