Hostage at Prison Tells Negotiators She’s OK
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A correctional officer held captive by two inmates for more than a week in a Buckeye prison watch tower told negotiators she was all right, officials said.
Negotiators also are getting “increasingly more compliant responses from the hostage-takers,” said Ivan Bartos, an Arizona Department of Corrections official. “It’s a sign that negotiations have been effective.”
Negotiators’ phone conversation with the guard Sunday was the first they had heard from her since prisoners released a male guard Saturday, a Corrections Department spokesman said.
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