A prison guard in the South
Carolina was saved last night in a serious five-hour hostage taking, where
inmates used contraband cell phones to contact police authorities that the
injured prison guard was being held inside a broom closet.
The victim is suffered with
lacerations on his face and was held hostage for five hours in a closet guarded
by inmates, many of them convicted rapists and murderers.
Fortunately other inmates inside
the prison alerted authorities and asked to help the injured guard, which had
previously been smuggled into the prison by throwing in them over the perimeter
fence, Newsom said.
The state department of
corrections directed hostage negotiators and SWAT teams to the prison, where a
standoff ensued for nearly five hours.
At 9:34 p.m. a special operations
team stormed the prison and found the guard, freeing him within 15 minutes and
suppressing the riot.
The spokesman said the attack on
the guard was a crime of "opportunity" and did not appear to have
been planned.
Authorities did a search of the
prison things and confiscated illegal contraband including cell phones that
saves life of prison guard.
