VIDEO: Coleman Prison: Mass Casualty Emergency Situation (Coleman,FL)

A spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons says eight male inmates have been taken to a hospital after a "large-scale fight" at a federal prison northwest of Orlando.

Spokeswoman Traci Billingsley says the fight broke out in the recreation yard serving a high-security prison building at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, , which is approximately 50 miles northwest of Orlando and 35 miles south of Ocala.

Billingsley says no staff workers were seriously injured. She had no immediate information on the condition of the inmates.

Several emergency crews from Lake and Sumter counties arrived on scene shortly after 3 p.m. A spokesperson with Orlando Regional Medical Center confirmed that at least four people had been hospitalized and that they were expecting three others to be brought to the complex.

Numerous people were pulled out of the facility, five of which were loaded into separate ambulances. Patients arrived at ORMC, accompanied by federal agents.

Coleman Federal Correctional Complex is located just south of the central Florida town of Coleman, off of Highway 301. The complex consists of four facilities built to accommodate low to high security risk inmates.

MyFoxOrlando.com reported in October of 2007 on an incident at that same federal facility in which one inmate was stabbed and beaten to death. Osbaldo Farias, 36, and Gerardo Martinez, 29, were later charged with conspiracy to commit murder and first degree murder in the beating of fellow inmate Orlando Yazzie.

According to an investigation conducted by the Department of Justice, Farias and Yazzie were exercising in a recreation cage at the prison, when Farias stabbed Yazzie with a homemade knife approximately 13 times.
Martinez then joined Farias in the attack and the two reportedly kicked and stomped Yazzie for approximately forty-five minutes. He later died from his injuries.