Jose Estevez-Luciano said he understood that he violated the oath he took when he became a corrections officer and was sorry for that.

According to one mother who spoke with her son who is in the jail, inmates screamed out: "We're going to die back here. There's a fire — it's bad."

A New York state prison was placed on lockdown after inmates took over and injured three guards, just days after staffing shortage concerns were raised.