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Not that I've heard. All units were on lock-down for a while while they pulled cell phones out of butts and mattresses. Lock-down can happen any time, if there's another crisis, but they're not all that common. It's not only a dangerous situation. The cell phone, thing, for instance, was to keep phone parts and chargers from being shuffled around between cells and pods so they could know that if they started a search at one end and went to the other, the stuff wouldn't be passed to an area already searched. It's a real nuisance for everyone, staff included. And of course, all visits, including lawyers and experts are suspended.

For those who didn't hear, the recent lock-down was on account of an inmate who called a legislator and threatened his children. Since his action resulted in several dozen cell phones being found and the lock-down that cancelled a lot of visits, he's not the most popular guy.

I have just heard that all the doors are locked and there is some kind of uproar or crisis like a fight or someone went nuts and had to be be removed into solitary or there is a search for something or someone got out and the cells are locked till things get back into order.

Usually a lock down means that something dangerous is happening in the building so they have to lock all the doors and hide. Someone probably either escaped out of there cell somehow and is in the building with a dangerous weapon or someone off the streets randomly went in there with a dangerous weapon. Or either no one went IN there with one, they could have just FOUND one.

Lock down:

1) escape or person not accounted for. 2nd count not clearing constitutes a lock down in cell bed roster count(name, face, ID present)

2) Lock down for a fight or serious altercation between gangs that could break out into a full scale riot.

3) lock down for night time in cells doors secured 10pm to 3am.

During different riots at prisons others would hear on news and break out into a riot / During the Attica Riots, we locked down for 2 weeks.