Report Shows Security Concerns Ignored Before Deadly Prison Uprising

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Seven months after a prison riot claimed the life of a corrections officer in Delaware, a study singles out blame.
Alex DeMetrick reports, it boils down to a state too slow to spend money for more staff.
For 18 hours in February, inmates blocked the doors in a unit of Delaware’s James T. Vaughn Correctional Center.
It took a backhoe for police to break in and free staff that had been taken hostage, and remove the body of Sgt. Steven Floyd, who was murdered during th