Revolt at Monroe County Correctional Facility ends peacefully
A revolt among maximum custody inmates at Monroe County Correctional Facility ended peacefully with no one injured on Wednesday night.
Warden Garry A. Haidle issued a release Thursday morning detailing the attempted insurgency, which occurred at 8:10 p.m. Jan. 7 as 13 to 15 maximum custody inmates refused orders to lock into their cells.
What exactly sparked the event is uncertain as of Thursday morning.
“That’s under investigation now at the DA’s office, and my administration, we can’t give any details out at this time until they finalize that,” Haidle said.
As the inmates continued to disobey orders from the guards and began acting hostile toward the staff, supervisors utilized a pepper ball launcher to control the situation. The inmates continued to resist, and in order to ensure staff safety, guards and other workers exited to the secure sally port area of the unit where they maintained surveillance of t
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19-year-old killed in police shooting on Pennsylvania overpass
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
A 19-year-old is dead after a police-involved shooting on an Interstate 80 overpass in Monroe County.
The incident occurred on the bridge at the state Route 33 southbound overpass over I-80 in Hamilton Township around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, WBRE/WYOU is reporting.
State police had received a call of a distraught man on the bridge, and that’s where troopers found 19-year-old Christian J. Hall with a firearm, WFMZ is reporting.
As troopers spoke to Hall, they ordered him to place his gun on the ground, which he did, at first, reports indicate.