Update: The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services emergency response teams entered the affected housing unit and have secured all inmates and extinguished fires. The housing unit is habitable and secure.
Corrections Director Frakes provide a briefing on the issues this evening.
The Tecumseh State Correctional Institution is on lockdown. An incident inside the prison Thursday prompted officials to put Nebraska law enforcement on stand by. Officials say 40 of the 128 inmates in one housing unit have refused to return to their assigned cells.
No injuries have been reported and all staff are safe and accounted for. The incident is isolated to one half of a housing unit and there is no risk to the public, according to prison officials.
They say a small fire was burning on the concrete slab of a small yard. There is no fire visible from inside the housing unit.
Visitors are being kept away from the prison at this time. The Johnson County Sheriff's Office, Johnson County Fire and Rescue , the Nebraska State Patrol and the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services emergency response teams are on the scene.
This facility is the same one where a riot broke out in 2015, resulting in the deaths of two inmates, injuries to inmates and guards and millions of dollars in damage to the prison.