Projo 7 to 7 News Blog

By Timothy C. Barmann
Journal staff writer

A toilet pipe in a bathroom became clogged at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston on Wednesday, causing disruptions for nearly 400 inmates in the minimum security facility.

The pipe overflowed, spilling waste water and fecal matter onto the floor of one bathroom in minimum security, said Tracey Poole, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections. Some of the water leaked through the floor and into the light fixtures of a bathroom below, she said.

Water to the bathroom where the problem occurred, as well as to the bathrooms directly above and below, was shut off. There are 138 inmates in the unit where the overflow occurred, 110 inmates in the unit above, and 140 inmates in the unit below.

Poole said the incident happened Wednesday morning, and an outside company was on the scene between 11 a.m. and noon to clean up the mess and to fix the plumbing problem.

An hourly restroom run was established for inmates to use restrooms in other parts of the building, she said.

Poole said officials did not yet know what caused the blockage.

 Tags  Cranston

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