Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 4, 1990 TAG: 9004040179
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: MANCHESTER, ENGLAND LENGTH: Medium
Thirteen guards were injured by flying bricks, poles and other missiles in an operation Tuesday to regain control of sections of the decaying Victorian structure, said Ivor Serle, chairman of the local branch of the Prison Officers' Association. He said six were hospitalized.
Serle said about 20 "hard core of the hard core" prisoners were stopping the other inmates from giving up.
Figures differed on the number of holdouts.
Serle said Tuesday night that 31 prisoners surrendered during the day, leaving 68 still in the red-brick prison.
The Home Office, the Cabinet-level department with responsibility for prisons, said 60 surrendered, leaving 39 in the jail.
Authorities have said 37 inmates and 19 guards at the crowded prison have been injured since rioting broke out at a chapel service Sunday morning.
Strangeways, built in 1868 to hold 970 men, had 1,648 prisoners Sunday, ranging from dangerous convicts to men awaiting trial.
Serle said the guards regained control of one wing on Tuesday and all the lower floors of the four other wings held by inmates. "There were many broken bones, and one officer has a punctured lung," he reported.
Advancing guards carried only shields and truncheons, he added.
Again, the Home Office's figures differed. It said prisoners still controlled two wings and officers regained control of the ground floor of another and parts of the ground floor of two other wings.
The guards regained control of four wings and the prison kitchen on Monday.
Serle said he expected negotiations to continue through the night.
by CNB