"State officials said today that a riot that left scores injured and a dormitory burned at a Chino prison was the result of racial tensions between black and Latinos prisoners and announced that 1,100 inmates were being moved to other facilities.
Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said that officials are still trying to determine exactly what sparked the violence, which damaged a unit that holds 1,300 inmates, but that race was clearly a factor.
"It was a very violent incident,"Â Thornton said. "We're still trying to figure out why."Â
Following a 2005 Supreme Court decision that found routine racial segregation to be illegal, Chino and other California prisons are moving away from the historic practice of separating inmates by race. Inmates may now share cells with prisoners of different races. The barracks involved in the rioting had been fully integrated." WOW! they were dumb enough to put them in the same cell??? what the hell did they think would happen...Edited by: jcolec02