Baltimore's Maryland pen hosted a prison fight. 18 inmates injured!!

            Eighteen inmates were injured, three critically, during a prison yard
fight Friday at a Maryland corrections facility in Baltimore,
authorities said.





The fight broke out at the Metropolitan Transition Center about 1:30 p.m., corrections spokeswoman Major Priscilla Doggett said.



Inmates "were evaluated and determined they needed additional treatment
for stab wounds," Doggett said. The inmates were taken to local
hospitals, she said.



Emergency crews found inmates at the institution about 2 p.m. with
injuries ranging from lacerations to stab wounds, Baltimore Fire Chief
Kevin Cartwright said.



The transition center, a minimum security facility, houses more than
1,700 inmates who have two years or less to serve on their sentences.
It is located in part of the former Maryland Penitentiary, an imposing,
gothic structure built in 1811 that was once a maximum security prison



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