Officer taken hostage at SC prison is freed
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South Carolina corrections officials say an officer who was taken hostage by inmates at a maximum-security prison has been freed.
Corrections Department spokesman Clark Newsom said the male officer was freed at about 9:45 p.m. Thursday by armed officers who rushed a dorm at the Lee Correctional Institution, where he had been held since being overpowered around 5 p.m. The prison houses nearly 1,800 inmates.
Newsom said the officer had cuts to his head and arm but walked out on his own before being airlifted to a hospital for treatment and observation.
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Authorities were trying to determine exactly what happened.
The incident was contained to just one dorm, which houses about 100 inmates. The prison remained on lockdown late Thursday.
A guard was taken hostage for about six hours at the same prison in June.