{"id":403931,"date":"2026-01-13T01:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/403931\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T01:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T01:49:19","slug":"3-inmates-dead-12-hurt-after-major-fights-at-georgia-prison-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/403931\/","title":{"rendered":"3 inmates dead, 12 hurt after &#8220;major fights&#8221; at Georgia prison, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A disturbance at a prison in northern Georgia Sunday afternoon left three inmates dead and 12 more injured along with a guard, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>Davisboro, Georgia Police Chief Leondus Dixon told CBS News a fight broke out among inmates during visitation hours at Washington State Prison in Davisboro.<\/p>\n<p>Washington County Sheriff Joel Cochran said there were &#8220;several major fights,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.13wmaz.com\/article\/news\/local\/local-law-enforcement-coroner-on-standby-washington-state-prison-over-possible-riot\/93-9e518064-4b2e-457d-926c-0dd108e3d2d0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports CBS Macon, Georgia affiliate WMAZ-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia Department of Corrections said the facility was brought under control and all inmates were accounted for, according to WMAZ.<\/p>\n<p>There was no word on what the inmates were fighting over or the conditions of the injured inmates.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A disturbance at a prison in northern Georgia Sunday afternoon left three inmates dead and 12 more injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,3076,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-403931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}