Inmates Return To Their Cells At Warkworth Prison
Posted July 22, 2009 12:00 pm.
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About 200 inmates at a medium-security prison in central Ontario who refused to go back to their cells are now being returned.
Anne Anderson, the assistant warden at the Warkworth Institution, says the prisoners are returning “safely and securely.” She could not say why the prisoners staged their protest at about 9 p.m. Tuesday, but says a full investigation will be conducted.
There was a break-in at the jail’s health-care centre during the protest, however, and some medications were stolen.
Anderson says inmates were able to access the locked health centre from the prison yard.
Four inmates were taken to an outside hospital after suffering suspected drug overdoses and some fires were set in the recreation yard during the protest.
The Warkworth Institution, which houses about 575 inmates in five units, is east of Peterborough, Ont., about 15 kms south of Campbellford.
