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COVID-19: One Officer Injured, Some 100 Inmates Moved Following Fight At CT Prison COVID-19: One Officer Injured, Some 100 Inmates Moved Following Fight At CT Prison
Covid-19: One Officer Injured, Some 100 Inmates Moved Following Fight At CT Prison A corrections officer was injured and some 100 inmates have been moved at the Carl Robinson Correctional Institution due to unrest associated with new restrictions in an attempt to contain the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The prison, located in Enfield, houses more than 1,200 medium-security inmates, has recently experienced an uptick in incidents, said Andrius Banevicius, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections. The first sign of unrest began on Friday, April 3, when the prison's emergency. response team had to be mobilized as tension climbed among the inmates over the ag…

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