A Minnesota prison has “resolved without incident” a situation involving about 100 inmates in one housing unit who would not return to their cells.
A fleet of emergency vehicles sit parked outside of Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater prison in Bayport, Minn., on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023. The prison was placed on emergency lockdown after about 100 inmates in a housing unit facing dangerously high heat would not return to their cells.
The prison is in Bayport about 25 miles east of Minneapolis, which was under an afternoon heat advisory for temperatures approaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit . The department confirmed that inmates have been in lockdown status because of the holiday weekend, meaning they are kept in their cells, with “limited access facility-wide to out-of-cell time for showers, phone use and recreation.” The facility remains on lockdown now, and all inmates have returned to the cells.
Haynes, Boehnke and Cathy Stroud Caldwell said the inmate action was an impromptu response to unsafe conditions, including access to clean drinking water, which they say is reportedly brown in color. The department said those claims “about a lack of clean water in the facility are patently false.” Members of a crisis negotiation team and the Special Operations Response Team were deployed “out of an abundance of caution.”
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