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Inmates Charged With Murder After Guard Killed In Prison Uprising

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- More than a dozen inmates are being charged with murder in a deadly Delaware prison uprising back in February.

18 inmates have been indicted in that deadly riot, with 16 of them being charged with first-degree murder. The other two are charged with kidnapping, riot, and conspiracy.

RELATED: Corrections Officer Killed in Del. Hostage Situation

On February 1, inmates at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna took control of a building, taking four corrections department workers hostage.

Correctional officer Steven Floyd was killed, and two others officers were injured.

All of those charged in this case are currently in Delaware prisons.

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