State corrections officials told the Albany Times-Union that staff at Collins Correctional Facility, south of Buffalo, found an inmate with contraband cell phones early Wednesday. When force was used to get the phones, inmates became agitated and staff left the dorm after encountering “various potential threats”.

An upstate prison was still locked down Thursday after guards retook control of three dorms following an inmate uprising sparked when a corrections officer seized one prisoner’s illegal cellphones. Prisoners at the Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County captured three dorms just after midnight Wednesday and held them for several hours until emergency response teams and other officers could retake them,