Just to let anyone out there that is wondering - Tehachapi is out of lock down this morning. I don't know anymore information other than Level 1 was in lockdown and now they are out this morning.

I just spoke to one of the cool CO's at Tehachapi and here is the deal.
Level 1 - normal visits
Level 4 - LOCKDOWN
HOWEVER
4B GYM - has normal visits

Article about the lastest event on 4 yeard is below.


Two guards stabbed at Tehachapi prison, site of recent riot
- By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
Friday, April 15, 2005

(04-15) 14:28 PDT SACRAMENTO, (AP) --

A Tehachapi prison inmate stabbed a guard twice in the forehead Friday and struck another guard in the arm with a homemade weapon he pulled from his pants, a prison spokesman said.

Both officers were treated and released from a hospital, and the maximum security building and yard at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi was locked down, said Department of Corrections spokesman Todd Slosek.

The names of the injured guards and the alleged attacker were not immediately released.

The stabbings followed the Jan. 10 stabbing death of an officer at the California Institution for Men in Chino, the first Department of Corrections guard killed in the line of duty since 1985.

Friday's attack came about 8:45 a.m. after the inmate set off a metal detector as he was released to an exercise yard, Slosek said.

As he moved toward a group of inmates, guards tried searching him. Despite being hit with pepper spray, he pulled a 4- to 6-inch homemade knife from his pants and attacked, Slosek said. The attack was stopped by a third officer using a baton, said spokeswoman Terry Thornton.

The 44-year-old inmate was serving a 31-year Los Angeles County sentence for attempted first-degree murder since Christmas Eve 1990, but served prior stints dating to 1981, Thornton said.

Both guards were wearing stab-resistant vests, she said.

The prison about 40 miles east of Bakersfield was the scene of a race riot Feb. 24 involving 480 black and Hispanic inmates that left three inmates injured.


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