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Colo. prison disturbance leaves one staff member dead, another injured, official says

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(CBS/AP) CROWLEY, Colo. - A disturbance involving an inmate at a state prison in southeast Colorado on Monday left one staff member killed and another seriously injured, an official said.

State prison spokeswoman Adrienne Jacobson said a female kitchen staffer was killed and another was wounded in the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility n Crowley, which is about 45 miles southeast of Pueblo.

The state prison houses about 1,000 male prisoners and was put on lockdown.

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