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   From: leroysoetoro@hrc-rejected.com   
      
   Inmates armed with homemade knives fought each other for about seven hours   
   over territory and money, leaving seven of them dead in the worst U.S.   
   prison riot in a quarter-century, officials said Monday. An inmate who   
   witnessed the violence told The Associated Press that bodies were   
   "literally stacked on top of each other."   
      
   At least 17 prisoners were seriously injured at Lee Correctional   
   Institution, South Carolina prisons chief Bryan Stirling said. The first   
   fight started in a dorm about 7:15 p.m. Sunday and appeared to be   
   contained before suddenly starting in two other dorms. Cellphones helped   
   stir up the trouble, and state officials urged the federal government to   
   change a law and allow them to block the signals from prisoners' phones.   
      
   "These folks are fighting over real money and real territory while they're   
   incarcerated," Stirling said at a news conference.   
      
   No prison guards were hurt. Stirling said they followed protocol by   
   backing out and asking for support. It took several hours to restore   
   order, but once a special SWAT team entered, the inmates gave up   
   peacefully, he said.   
      
   The prisoner who saw the riot exchanged messages with AP on the condition   
   of anonymity because he is not allowed to have a cellphone and fears   
   retribution from other inmates.   
      
   He said he saw several attackers taunt a rival gang member who was badly   
   injured.   
      
   "I just saw three dead on the sidewalk outside of my unit. One guy is   
   still alive and breathing, but just barely," the inmate said.   
      
   The riot was the latest violence in the South Carolina prisons system,   
   where at least 13 other inmates have been killed by fellow prisoners since   
   the start of 2017. It was the most inmates slain in a single riot in the   
   U.S. since nine prisoners and a guard died in 1993 at the Southern Ohio   
   Correctional Facility, said Steve Martin, a consultant who helps the   
   federal government monitor prison systems.   
      
   The inmate who spoke to AP said that many cell door locks were already   
   broken before the riot and that he and other prisoners roamed around   
   freely at the prison in Bishopville, located 40 miles east of Columbia.   
   Hours after the violence started, no correctional officers or medical   
   personnel attended to the dead or dying, he said.   
      
   "The COs (corrections officers) never even attempted to render aid, nor   
   quell the disturbance," he said. "They just sat in the control bubble,   
   called the issue in, then sat on their collective asses."   
      
   Stirling said the response teams entered as fast as they could.   
      
   "We gathered as many people as we could, as quickly as we could and went   
   in as soon as we thought it was safe for our staff," he said.   
      
   The inmate told AP that he knew at least two of the slain men well. He   
   said he saw an inmate trying to get up before he "started into that 'death   
   rattle' people often hear about, but never experience firsthand."   
      
   Most of the slain inmates were stabbed with homemade knives or slashed,   
   while the remainder appeared to have been beaten, Lee County Coroner Larry   
   Logan said. Stirling said an investigation would determine if any other   
   type of weapon was used.   
      
   The slain were serving anywhere from 10 years to life in prison and their   
   crimes ranged from murder to burglary to trafficking crack cocaine. They   
   youngest was 28 years old while the oldest was 44.   
      
   The injured inmates required medical attention outside the prison, which   
   made it more difficult for authorities to restore order, Stirling said.   
      
   The coroner said when he arrived it was a chaotic scene of fighting   
   everywhere. Logan said the state-run Lee Correctional Institution, like   
   most other South Carolina prisons, is struggling to find enough workers,   
   but he doesn't believe anything could be done once things got that far out   
   of control.   
      
   "If everybody has an uprising, you are always going to be understaffed,"   
   Logan said.   
      
   The maximum-security facility in Bishopville houses about 1,500 inmates   
   and there were 44 guards there when the first fight started.   
      
   Two officers were stabbed there in 2015. More recently, an inmate held a   
   guard hostage for 90 minutes in March and another killed a fellow prisoner   
   in February.   
      
   The deaths at Lee are the most in any South Carolina prison in recent   
   years. Four inmates were killed last year by a pair of prisoners at   
   Kirkland Correctional Institution.   
      
   Gov. Henry McMaster commended Stirling's response and said he was outraged   
   the state can't jam cellphone signals in prisons.   
      
   "There are prisons around the country -- state prisons, federal prisons   
   all - that would be safer with this jamming," he said.   
      
   Stirling said officials planned to meet next month with the cellphone   
   industry to talk about solutions, but "until that's done, the folks that   
   are incarcerated are going to continue their criminal ways from behind   
   bars."   
      
      
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