Authorities are investigating an 80-inmate riot that broke out at California State Prison Corcoran on Monday night.
The violence erupted at 8:21 p.m. on the facility’s level one yard for minimum security inmates. Wielding manufactured weapons, the convicts assaulted each other until staff members hit them with pepper spray and blast grenades, officials said.
Five inmates were injured during the melee, Public information officer Theresa Cisneros said, and were taken to local hospitals for treatment. They have since been returned to the facility...
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