Five more correctional officers have quit their jobs and Maj. Jeffrey Carrothers the security superintendent at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center has been reassigned.
It comes nearly four weeks after an inmate uprising that left one officer dead.
WBOC reports that the Department of Correction says that brought the total number of resignations since the uprising to 13 – 10 of whom worked at the prison.
The department also says that there have been 12 officers who have either retired or put in their papers to do so.
The television station also reports that 29 of the medical personnel at the Correctional Center have left their jobs.
The warden at the prison, David Pierce, has also been placed on administrative leave.
