All Delaware state prisons on lockdown after prison guards are taken hostage

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Delaware Online said:
Department of Correction Response Teams and the Delaware State Police responded to a hostage situation Wednesday morning at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, according to Jayme Gravell, a spokeswoman.

All Delaware prisons went on lockdown because of the situation.

Dozens of police vehicles, as well as ambulances, continued to pour into the entrance to Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna. Helicopters were also circling over the prison and the nearby areas.

Rep. William Carson, a member of the House Corrections Committee, said he had been told it was an "apparent hostage situation."

"The inmates have taken over a building," he said.
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My father worked in a maximum security prison. Lock downs are no joke. Hoping any hostages come out of this ok and the situation is defused somehow.
 
This is one of those ideas that may look good in movies but in reality is a terrible idea to try. I hope it ends well for the guards, the prisoners doing this are going to be screwed no matter what happens.
 
My dad was a CO up in Ontario, small provincial jail luckily nothing like this happened there.

I fear for the lives of these people because, I'm assuming, the inmates have nothing to lose.
 
Ponn said:
This is one of those ideas that may look good in movies but in reality is a terrible idea to try. I hope it ends well for the guards, the prisoners doing this are going to be screwed no matter what happens.
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Not like i'm trying to defend their actions in the slightest, but that could be the point - just to fuck things up and have some semblance of control, even if very temporary.

Could also just be an attempt at suicide from getting shot.
 
Fucking sucks that for the next four years my first thought during times that require decision making and leadership I have to worry about what fucked up reaction Trump is going to have.
 
jmdajr said:
Is this where El Chapo is?

Man, how does this happen. When has it ever happened? Not often it seems.
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How does a CO get taken hostage? Either carelessness or very brave inmates.

I used to be a CO at the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center which was a supermax prison and a CO was taken hostage years before I started. He killed an officer before he was ultimately killed.

My thoughts and prayers are with the officers, this is a thankless job that 99% of people ain't cut out for.
 
Flux said:
This isn't a metaphor for the country?
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No, because the guards are firmly in control right now.


Also, hoping for a positive outcome from this. My step-brother is a corrections officer, he moved areas in the prison he worked at because he was dealing with the worst of the worst and it became way too scary and dangerous for him (he has a wife and 5 kids). Some of his stories are chilling.
 
Conor_Fool said:
The most famous example I can think of is Attica
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Though the worst is probably Santa Fe on 2 Feb 1980. Utterly horrifying violence. Low pay, high risk, insufficient training, overcrowding, something like 80% turnover for guards, violent people with no hope and nothing to lose--it all is such a terrible shame for humanity.
 
Some of their demands are a focus on rehabilitation and better education. Their demands seem to be things that should happen.

"We're trying to explain the reasons for doing what we're doing," one of the voices on the call said. "Donald Trump. Everything that he did. All the things that he's doing now. We know that the institution is going to change for the worse. We know the institution is going to change for the worse. We got demands that you need to pay attention to, that you need to listen to and you need to let them know. Education, we want education first and foremost. We want a rehabilitation program that works for everybody. We want the money to be allocated so we can know exactly what is going on in the prison, the budget."
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http://www.delawareonline.com/story...son-lockdown-vaughn/97342188/#VaughnRebellion
 
That explains the massive police presence I saw earlier today then. Surprised this is the first I've even heard of it.
 
Izayoi said:
Very reasonable... Has violence been kept to a minimum?
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Nah. I'm in Delaware and word is at least one CO was killed, several still unaccounted for inside. Got this information from the wife of a CO who happened to be off today.

I'm working at the closest ER, everybody on edge waiting for the siege to break and all hell to break loose for us.
 
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