Mother of JTVCC prisoner: Trouble was brewing

(AP) – A woman whose son is incarcerated at the Delaware prison where three guards and counselor were taken hostage says he recently told her that trouble was brewing.

The woman spoke on condition of anonymity to protect her son. She says he lived in the building at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center where the hostages were taken Wednesday. One of the guards was found dead when authorities used a backhoe and broke in Thursday morning.

The woman says that in several recent telephone calls, her son told her that inmates were saying they were getting fed up with conditions at the prison. She says her son told her "they were riled up and acted as though they were going to protest."

She says her son was "frightened to death" that there would be trouble.