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The Kinross Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula had a riot on Sept. 10 in which the inmates took control, the president of the Michigan Corrections Organization.tells the Detroit Free Press.
Authorities retook control by armed force, Paul Egan of the Freep reports.
President of the corrections organization Tom Tylutki told the paper that inmates set at least one fire, smashed numerous windows — one with a clothes dryer thrown through it — destroyed sinks and other fixtures, and left at least one unit temporarily unlivable.
"It was a riot,” union president Tom Tylutki told the Free Press on Tuesday. “For anybody to describe it as anything other than that is just amazing to us.”
Corrections Department spokesman Chris Gautz saw it differently.
"It was a very serious situation," but "there was no loss of control of the facility whatsoever," and "this was not a riot," Gautz told the Freep. The incident resulted in major damage but no injuries.
