PHILLIPS COUNTY, Ark. — A prisoner caused a barricade situation Tuesday in the Phillips County Detention Center.
Authorities said a prisoner who was being processed at the jail was able to get hold of some type of instrument and cause harm to himself.
He barricaded himself in the processing area and pepper spray was used to subdue him.
The prisoner was taken to the local emergency room for treatment. No one else was injured.
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The police chief in Helena-West Helena said he doesn’t know much more about what happened at the jail, but said the inmate is connected to a fatal shooting this afternoon.