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 LOS ANGELES—A California Corrections Department report on a gang and racially motivated riot at a prison last year urges changes for managing inmate gang members.

The report released Tuesday comes seven months after violence erupted at the California Institution for Men in Chino as a result of Hispanic and white inmates attacking black inmates at a portion of the facility where inmates are received into the prison.

Nearly 1,200 inmates were involved, 249 were injured and six dormitories were heavily damaged.

The report recommends changes to avoid mixing gang members in a dormitory environment, use behavior as an additional means to identify an inmate as a gang member, and prosecution of such rioters on hate crime charges.

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