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Minnesota prison resolves dispute with 100 inmates refusing to return to cells

A fleet of emergency vehicles sit parked outside of Stillwater prison.
A fleet of emergency vehicles sit parked outside Stillwater prison. Photograph: David Boehnke/AP

A Minnesota prison was put on lockdown after about 100 incarcerated people refused to return to their cells on Sunday morning amid extreme temperatures.

The dispute at the Stillwater prison, Minnesota’s largest close-security institution for adult men, was resolved “peacefully” on Sunday, according to an update from Paul Schnell, commissioner of the Minnesota department of corrections.

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