AZ: One Prison Guard Freed in Hostage Crisis
Posted on Sat Jan 24, 2004 at 07:28:20 PM EST
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Prisoners at an Arizona prison have released one of the two hostages they have been holding for almost a week. The other, a female corrections officer, is still inside.
The male corrections officer, whose name was not released, climbed down a ladder placed against the tower and walked to freedom at the Lewis prison facility, about 45 miles southwest of Phoenix, officials said. He was taken to a nearby hospital.
A female corrections officer was still being held hostage by the two inmates who forced their way into the observation tower at Arizona's second largest prison early last Sunday.....The medium- to high-security prison, which houses about 4,500 inmates, has been in lockdown since the incident started.
A bad situation. We hope that the female officer is released unharmed.
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