Staff and wire reports
A breakdown of the events in the prison hostage situation at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Lewis:
Jan. 18
* 2:30 a.m. - Members of a kitchen work crew, including Ricky Wassenaar and Steven Coy, are released from their respective cells to report for duty.
* 3 a.m. - Wassenaar and Coy enter the kitchen office, where a correctional officer and a civilian food service worker are present.
Wassenaar approaches the guard with a shank (a handmade knife). Coy blocks the door to prevent the food worker from leaving.
Wassenaar forces the guard to hand over his uniform and equipment, including a pair of handcuffs.
Coy restrains the food worker with an electrical cord.
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Wassenaar alters his appearance by shaving his beard in the kitchen area and putting on the guard's uniform.
Wassenaar leaves the kitchen while Coy remains.
* 4:20 a.m. - Wassenaar buzzes the gate near the tower. The officer looks at the monitor and sees what is believed to be another officer and lets Wassenaar in the gate and then the tower, where Wassenaar overcomes the two guards assigned to that location.
While Wassenaar is in the tower, main control radios the kitchen for a routine safety check known as a "Code 20." Coy directs the guard to respond "Code 4" (OK).
An oncoming guard enters the kitchen. Coy approaches the officer with a shank and orders him to go into the kitchen office, where he observes the first guard restrained to a fixture in the kitchen office and the food worker restrained.
Coy removes the second guard's handcuffs and also restrains him to the fixture.
* Before 5 a.m. - In response to a radio call, Coy releases the second guard from the handcuffs to open the kitchen door. After opening the door, the second guard runs out into the dining area. Two correctional officers are in the dining room and confront Coy, who draws the shank and injures one of the guards.
The guard who had been released from the handcuffs runs from the kitchen onto the yard.
Coy chases that guard onto the yard. The two guards who were in the dining room give chase as well and radio for emergency response.
Coy is stopped in the yard by staff members responding to the radio call. He is directed to drop the shank; pepper spray is dispensed. Wassenaar fires several rounds into the yard from the base of the tower, and Coy runs to the tower. Wassenaar and Coy enter the tower.
* 5:25 a.m. - Southern Regional Operations Director Meg Savage is paged by Lewis Complex personnel and advised of a serious, unspecified inmate disturbance.
* 5:37 a.m. - The Department of Corrections Tactical Support Unit at Perryville is placed on standby.
* 5:52 a.m. - Lewis Complex Warden William Gaspar is notified by Division Director Jeff Hood.
* 6:30 a.m. - Corrections personnel request hostage negotiators from the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
* 6:37 a.m. - Dennis Burke, chief of staff to Gov. Janet Napolitano, is notified of the incident. He notifies the governor and key staff members.
* 7 a.m. - Wassenaar demands a helicopter and a pizza.
* 7:14 a.m. - Corrections Director Dora Schriro is contacted out of state and returns to Arizona.
* 7:18 a.m. - Department of Corrections tactical unit snipers are positioned on buildings near the tower.
* 7:45 a.m. - DPS SWAT team and negotiators are on site.
* 8:05 a.m. - A DPS negotiator makes the first, seven-minute phone contact with Wassenaar.
* 8:20 a.m. - Wassenaar demands handcuff keys and repeats the demand for a helicopter and to talk to the warden and the governor.
* 8:20 to 11:20 a.m - Negotiators have various conversations with Wassenaar, in which he backs off from his demand for a helicopter, demands a radio, describes injuries of the guards held and allows officers to speak briefly to one hostage.
* 11:19 a.m. - Negotiators on the phone with Wassenaar play a tape-recorded message from his sister, pleading for him to end the situation peacefully.
* 11:30 a.m. - Director Schriro arrives at the command center.
* 12:30-5:30 p.m. - Various phone conversations occur between negotiators and Wassenaar.
* Evening - Negotiations continue.
Jan. 19
Negotiators speak overnight to the hostages for the first time and are told they are not seriously hurt.
Jan. 20
Negotiators are allowed to see the guards, who appear to be OK.
Jan. 21
One inmate sets off a gas canister that lands in prison yard. No one is injured. Corrections officials don't respond. Hostages tell negotiators they are OK.
Jan. 22
One inmate is seen walking on the observation deck of the three-story tower. Each of the hostages walks up to the deck. Negotiators are allowed to speak with hostages, who say they are all right.
Jan. 23
An inmate climbs to the deck three times. Twice he pulls up coolers, though officials decline to say what the coolers contain. Negotiators are allowed to talk to the hostages. Inmates are given hoagie sandwiches and soda.
Jan. 24
An inmate wearing a guard's jacket seen walking on the deck. The male guard freed.
Jan. 25
The female guard, the sole remaining hostage, tells negotiators she's OK.
Last Monday
An inmate is seen walking on the observation deck of tower.
Tuesday
An inmate walks on deck of the tower in the morning. The inmates receive a bag of undisclosed items from negotiators later in the day. Negotiators see the remaining hostage and say she appeared OK.
Wednesday
An inmate is seen briefly on the deck in morning. Negotiators speak with the female hostage, who indicates she is OK.
Thursday
Negotiators speak to the remaining officer.
At 12 days, standoff becomes longest prison hostage situation in at least 50 years, experts say.
Friday
An inmate lowers a rope and hauls up a plastic bag and yellow container.
Saturday
The female guard shows her head above the structure's hatch.
Sunday
The female guard is released by the inmates, who surrender to prison authorities.
Source: Information for timeline provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections.
