Guards Stabbed In Prison Uprising

Prisoners upset about a new policy requiring inmates to cut their hair stabbed five guards and took three hostages Monday in an uprising that ended after five inmates won permission to meet with the media.

The five prisoners, three of whom wore long dreadlocks, walked out of the cafeteria where they were holed up for 11 hours.

The shackled inmates then met for five minutes with a reporter and two photographers to complain about the new hair guidelines and other restrictions.

Before their surrender, the prisoners released the last two of three hostages seized earlier in the day at the Broad River Correctional Institution. The hostages, a man and a woman, appeared shaken but unharmed.

Five guards were stabbed during the uprising, and four were seriously injured.

The five prisoners who met with the media denied being involved in any of the stabbings.