Arizona Prison Fight: 400 inmates brawl, 19 injured
| TUCSON, Ariz.
An Arizona prison complex remains on lockdown after a聽fight聽broke out among400聽inmates.
State Department of Corrections spokesman Bill Lamoreaux says the staff quickly stopped the聽fight聽that broke out Sunday morning at a minimum-security unit of the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson.
Lamoreaux says two staffers suffered minor injuries and 17聽inmates聽were taken to area hospitals with injuries. The extent of the聽inmates' injuries wasn't immediately available.
The prison is investigating the cause of the聽fight, which broke out in the Whetstone Unit. Nearly 1,250 prisoners are housed in that unit, which is one of eight at the prison.
Prison officials cancelled visitations for the day to the entire prison after the聽fight.
