Two inmates were killed and others were injured in a Nebraska prison Thursday after inmates revolted against staff members and started a fire in a courtyard.
(FOX)- Prison officials offered few details about the deaths but said the disturbance at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution in southeast Nebraska involved about 40 inmates in a unit with 128 prisoners.
The prison was placed on lockdown for several hours after the inmates refused to return to their cells.
No prison employees were injured. An unspecified number of inmates suffered injuries that weren’t life-threatening, said Department of Correctional Services Director Scott Frakes.
He said the two unidentified inmates killed were found inside the housing unit.
A department spokeswoman said an emergency response team secured the inmates and extinguished a fire in a prison yard. The incident was isolated to half of the housing unit and a small fenced-in yard, spokeswoman Dawn-Renee Smith said.