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Guards open fire during ‘major riot’ at California prison

Staff at California's Folsom State Prison worked Saturday to determine the cause of a "major riot" in the prison yard a day earlier that involved 200 inmates, officials there said.

The Friday night melee sent seven inmates to area hospitals with non-life threatening injuries, prison spokesman Lt. Anthony Gentile said Saturday.

There were no fatalities, said spokesman Luis Patino of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

No corrections officers were injured...

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