Vermont Defender General Matt Valerio says he's not too worried about an incident involving Vermont inmates at a private prison in Michigan.
Two staff members from the Defender General’s prisoners' rights division traveled to the North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan, last week to investigate a May 25 fire drill and its aftermath.
Valerio says a handful of inmates acted out by trying to block cell doors with mattresses and breaking sprinkler heads when a fire drill was called and cells were searched in a segregation unit. The search turned up a small number of cell phones.
He says on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being inmates mouthing off to guards and 10 being a full-scale riot, the incident was a 3.
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