Union head: Slain corrections officer saved other guards' lives

A Delaware correctional officer who later died was forced into a closet by inmates amid a prison hostage standoff Wednesday, according to the head of the corrections officers’ union in the state.Sgt. Steven Floyd, 47, was forced into the closet and yelled to other officers who were coming to help that the inmates had set a trap, Geoffrey Klopp, president of the Correctional Officers Association of Delaware, said Thursday. The responding officers were able to escape, Klopp said.Floyd’