SALEM, Ore. (AP) — It took a warning shot to stop a fight between a pair of death row inmates at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.
The Oregon Department of Corrections said the inmates were in a recreation yard when they began fighting about 8 a.m. Friday.
Officials say they refused to stop until a corrections officer fired the warning shot from a tower that overlooks the yard.
Both inmates suffered nonlife-threatening injuries and received medical treatment. Oregon State Police are investigating the incident.
The Department of Corrections website lists 33 inmates on death row in Oregon.
