Story highlights Wednesday morning incident leads to hostage standoff in the Delaware prisonOne employee is released about four hours after they are taken hostage(CNN) Four corrections employees were still being held hostage Wednesday hours after a standoff unfolded at a Delaware prison, according to the Delaware State Police. A fifth employee, who was also taken hostage, was released around 2:40 p.m., about four hours after the hostage situation began at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware, said Sgt. Bratz said the incident began around 10:32 a.m. when a corrections officer radioed for immediate assistance from inside a building that houses more than 100 inmates. Corrections officers responded and the facility was placed under lockdown, Bratz said. That's when the five employees were taken hostage, he said.

Source: CNN February 01, 2017 21:31 UTC