DOVER, Del. (AP) - More than a dozen Delaware inmates charged in a fatal prison riot last year are staging a hunger strike.
Department of Correction officials confirmed Tuesday that 14 inmates at Sussex Correctional Institute in Georgetown began refusing meals Monday.
Department spokesman Jayme Gravell said all 14 inmates were involved in the riot at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, during which a prison guard was killed and three other staffers were taken hostage. Gravell said three other riot defendants housed at SCI continue to eat meals.
The remaining riot defendant is being held out of state.
An attorney for one of the defendants said issues with prison conditions have apparently arisen since some defendants who were being held at a different prison recently joined the others at the prison in Georgetown.
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