i am sergeant richard brotts. public information for the delaware state police with us are represent hes from the fbi department of corrections and the delaware state police. we are currently working with our local allied agencies which include fire departments and paramedics. we are doing everything we can to assure the safety of everyone involved and using all of our available resources. the preliminary investigation shows the incident occurred at 10:32 today here at the vaughn correctional center in delaware. a correctional office made a call for immediate assistance for c building that houses over 100 inmates. at this point correctional officers responded to assist and the facility was placed on lock down. it was at this time five department of correction employees were taken hostage, since that time one hostage has been released. at promptly 2:40 p.m. that one correctional employee and transported by ambulance to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. at this point if we know if there are other

sergeant richard brotts picks up the story. >> we know that a correctional officer made a radio call for immediate assistance from inside of c building and correctional officers responded to assist and the facility was placed on lock down. it was this time that five department of correction employees were taken hostage. >> now, that starts at 10:30 and at 2:40 one of the five hostages that was injured was released identified as a 35-year-old correction officer and struck numerous times in the face with fists and a mop ringer. he is ted to be awake and four hostages inside and one counselor inside of building c. a flow down unit where inmates from maximum security is processed into medium security and we don't have an official count of the hostage takers at this point and reports of as many as 35 and they are not confirmed. nor do we have specific demands or threats against the hostages, authorities are not taking questions or answering questions at this point in time. they are trying to have a situation where they have an ongoing situation to negotiate peaceful resolution and the dep