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Department of Corrections.

At a news conference, Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said officers stormed in and took the first of three dorms back from rioting prisoners about four hours after the melee began on Sunday night. He said the officers were assembled at the rural prison as quickly as possible and went in only when it was safe to do so.

After the institution was back under control, it then took more time to get injured inmates to hospitals.

The prison is located 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Columbia.

“It shouldn’t take five hours to get in there and put some water on these fires,” said state Rep Justin Bamberg, a Democrat and lawyer whose clients include the families of several inmates who were attacked in previous instances. (AP)

Jurors began deliberating Tuesday afternoon in the case against three Kansas militia members accused of scheming to bomb a mosque and apartment complex housing Somalis.

During closing arguments, Assistant US Attorney Anthony Mattivi credited another militia member for alerting authorities, calling Dan Day the “one man standing between these three defendants and apartment complex full of innocent people.”

Curtis Allen, Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright face charges of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy against civil rights.

Wright also faces a charge of lying to the FBI. (AP)