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

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.

A state prison in western New York remained in lockdown Wednesday after inmates took control of three areas of a dormitory for several hours — an episode that took place against the backdrop of an ongoing prison staffing crisis and public rancor over the beating death of an inmate at a Utica-area facility.