Thread: Calif. prison on lockdown after multiple fights

Calif. prison on lockdown after multiple fights

The Associated Press
Posted: 09/22/2009 01:41:15 PM PDT

AVENAL, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say inmates at a California prison used canes, walkers and wheelchair parts as weapons in fights that sent 24 prisoners to hospitals and forced the facility to be put on lockdown.

Administrators are investigating the violence Monday between rival Latino gangs at Avenal State Prison.

Spokeswoman Terry Thornton of the California Department of Corrections says the fights began around 8:30 p.m. in the yard of one of six dormitory complexes on the prison grounds. Fights later erupted in other dormitories.

Prison officials confiscated 30 makeshift weapons - most of them canes, walkers and foot rests from wheelchairs used by inmates in the low-to-medium-security prison in the southern Central Valley.

Eleven of the injured inmates are still hospitalized, one in serious condition.

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Many gangs here are the result of illegal immigration. If you watch the history channel's series Gangland and/or have read about gangs you will find that when immigration enforcement was lax then you got the gangs. They immigrants would be picked on in school so they would resort to starting a gang. It is not only the Latinos but Haitians as well. In the case of the Haitians it would due to American blacks giving them a hard time.

i say let em fight to the death, that way, its less people california has to release back into the civilized world that they have no like for