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Fight puts Sask Pen in lock down

Oct 12, 2010 | 7:59 AM

An inmate in a Prince Albert-area jail is dead following a fight involveing close to 30 prisoners.

RCMP say the brawl happened in the gym of the Saskatchewan Penitentiary…. just west of the city.

The inmate who died as a result of his injusrries was Courtney Dallas Cook.

Kathy Neil is the deputy warden of the Saskatchewan Penitentiary near Prince Albert and says the fight involved medium-security inmates.