The Saskatchewan Government and General Employees’ Union (SGEU) believes more needs to be done to provide inmate and worker safety at the Saskatoon Provincial Correctional Centre.

The request comes after multiple rival gang members were involved in a violent incident on Thursday in the prison’s yard.

This is just one of several incidents that have taken place in the last several weeks at the correctional centre.

“We are hearing from our members the way these gangs are being housed and transported around the jail is just not working, and our members are very concerned, not only for their own safety, but for the inmates also,” said SGEU President Bob Bymoen in a release.

Extra officers were required to break up the brawl.

Bymoen added that a different strategy should be established moving forward, “whether that is isolating them more, providing more high-security areas, providing more staff to prevent altercations, or changing their programming so these factions are kept apart at all times.”