Sparta News

SPARTA, Ga. - A prosecutor says the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has reported its findings on the October attack on a high school coach who was beaten with a football helmet.

Guards briefly lost control of a part of an east Georgia prison after a series of fights broke out and rampaging inmates destroyed dormitories, set fire to furniture and broke into an administration office, according to prison records.

Authorities: Ga. prison fight appears gang-related Eds: APNewsNow. SPARTA, Ga. Investigators say a fight that sent a dozen inmates from a state prison in Georgia to the hospital was gang-related and organized using contraband cell phones.

SPARTA, Ga. -- A corrections officer says inmates in one housing unit at Hancock State Prison were rioting Friday night.