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9 hurt in New Castle prison riot

Source: By Tim Evans, Karen Eschbacher and Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star (IN), April 24, 2007

State officials will temporarily halt the transfer of Arizona prisoners to the New Castle Correctional Facility after a riot Tuesday that prompted calls for an end to housing another state's inmates in Indiana. Department of Correction officials said nine people -- two prison employees and seven inmates -- suffered minor injuries in separate disturbances involving Arizona and Indiana prisoners during a two-hour period Tuesday afternoon at the facility 50 miles east of Indianapolis.

....... The New Castle prison is state-owned, but Indiana contracts with GEO Group of Florida to operate it.