US guard killed after prisoners launch uprisingUS authorities smashed through a barricade of footlockers and stormed Delaware's largest prison on Thursday, after inmates launched an uprising armed with sharpened objects and took two people hostage. The uprising began Wednesday when inmates with homemade weapons overpowered staff members, seized Building C and took three guards and a counsellor hostage. It wasn't immediately clear how many inmates took part in the uprising. At one point, an unidentified inmate told a negotiator that the prisoners wanted a "formal apology" from the governor for "decades of oppression". In 2004, an inmate at the prison raped a counselor and held her hostage for nearly seven hours before he was killed by a department sharpshooter.

Source: Stuff February 03, 2017 09:48 UTC