The general population of the supermax prison at Pelican Bay, California is on lockdown after a riot where guards opened fire on inmates, killing one and wounding twelve others. The riot between 200 black and Hispanic prisoners broke out about 9:30 Wednesday morning in an exercise yard within the highest-security wing of Pelican Bay State Prison. And this is according to prison authorities. We don’t have a version of what happened from the prisoners. Located twenty miles south of the Oregon border and about 290 miles north of San Francisco, Pelican Bay houses close to 3,500 prisoners. About 1,200 are on permanent lockdown conditions. The fighting sent a total of twenty-eight inmates to local hospitals. Meanwhile, two former guards have been charged with violating the civil rights of Pelican Bay inmates. A federal grand jury indictment made public yesterday accused the men of conspiring to arrange assaults on prisoners, one of them fatal, over a nearly three-year period. Another former Pelican Bay guard, David Lewis, was convicted of civil rights charges February 14th, for shooting a prisoner after a fight in 1994.