CLALLAM BAY — Clallam Bay Corrections Center is easing back into normal operations after a lockdown which began last Monday and which isn’t expected to fully end until this Monday.
The lockdown was put into place to allow officials to investigate the cause of four unrelated fights which broke out on Sunday and Monday Chad Lewis, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections, said.
Minimum security prisoners will be allowed to return to work today, he said on Thursday.
Through the course of the weekend the close custody — or more restrictive units — will begin to return to normal operations, and the lockdown is tentatively expected to end Monday.
“The minimum security unit has begun allowing restrictive movement within the unit,” Lewis said Thursday.
Thursday evening, “they were allowed movement outside the unit and were allowed to eat dinner in the dining hall.”
A corrections officer and a prisoner sustained minor injuries in one of the fights, but the officer did not require treatment and the inmate was treated at the prison.
The Clallam County Sheriff’s Department is investigating that one fight, while prison officers look into the others, Lewis said.
No one else was injured.
No names were released.