Members of a crisis negotiation team are at the facility just southeast of Stillwater, according to the state’s Department of Corrections.
A US jail has been placed under an emergency lockdown after about 100 prisoners refused to return to their cells.
Members of a crisis negotiation team are at the prison in the state of Minnesota.
A spokesperson for the state’s Department of Corrections said on Sunday the special operations response team had been deployed “out of an abundance of caution”.
