A disturbance involving about 25 inmates at the D.C. jail forced the corrections personnel to use pepper spray in order to put an end to the conflict.

According to Assistant Police Chief Alfred Durham, it all started earlier on Sunday evening, in the southeast wing of the jail, (located in southeast Washington near Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium), when a fight began between two inmates, and staff in the jail’s dining area.

The fight delayed the evening meal, which came already cold. This thing infuriated about 154 inmates. Twenty-five of them refused to leave the dining area, forcing the corrections personnel to use pepper spray to quell the uprising, which ended about 3 a.m. They also used tear gas and dogs to control the inmates.

An investigation following the upraising found the inmates were not wearing any weapon as previously believed.

The two inmates involved in the initial fight were moved into a different section of the jail. Minor injuries related to the use of pepper spray were discovered among the prisoners when examined by the medical personnel of the jail.

Dozens of D.C. police were sent to supervise the area around the jail and to assist corrections personnel. Also, fire trucks and ambulances came at the incident’s scene.

“When anything happens at the jail, we always come to secure the perimeter,” said Durham, as quoted by the Washington Post.