Arpaio puts jails on lockdown

by Marilyn Hyder/KTAR (June 29th, 2009 @ 3:26pm)
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PHOENIX - Racial tensions at Maricopa County Jail have forced Sheriff Joe Arpaio to order every jail into a lockdown.

"The inmates want to be segregated," Arpaio told KTAR. "They don't want to be in the same cells with other ethnic backgrounds. They're not gonna tell me how to run the jails, so they will be in the same cell with other ethnic backgrounds, but they'll be locked down."

Inmates won't be able to have visitors or phone calls unless it's related to legal matters.

The sheriff's intelligence information indicated large scale assaults were about to happen.

Arpaio says the lockdown is until further notice.

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