TUCKER, Ark.-Two correctional officers taken hostage by inmates early Friday evening at the Maximum Security Unit in Tucker have been released, authorities said.
A spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Correction said in a statement that the officers suffered "only minor injuries" consisting of lacerations and bruising, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
"Following a use of force, both inmates were taken in to custody," the statement said. "The inmates and staff involved are being transported to area hospitals for medical treatment."
The extent of the injuries suffered by the inmates was not immediately known.
Friday's hostage-taking was the latest in a series of violent altercations at Arkansas prisons in recent months that have sent prisoners and guards to the hospital and resulted in the death of one inmate.