- IAN ALLEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Members of the security forces seen here moving in to secure the Tower Street Correctional facility in downtown Kingston, following a riot at the prison yesterday. One warden and a prisoner were killed during the incident.Glenroy Sinclair and Ross Sheil, Gleaner Reporters
FOUR PERSONS, a warder and three inmates, died during a riot yesterday at the maximum security Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre, downtown Kingston.
Head of the Correctional Services Department, Major Richard Reese, has ordered a top level probe into the bloody incident between inmates and warders which also left eight persons injured.
THE DEAD
Dead are Kamar Cotterell, Richard Harrison and Jeffrey Jones, all inmates who were serving life sentences at the penal facility; and a 28-year-old correctional officer Maurice Whittingham of a Spanish Town, St. Catherine address.
THE INJURED
Those injured during the prison disturbance include are correctional officers Wayne Lindsay, Roger Mills and Cleopatrick Blake. Probation aftercare officer, Carol Clarke, was also shot, along with a visitor, Nisshar Crossdale, who has been hospitalised.
