A private correctional company says inmates at a Tennessee prison sought to destroy property, compromised security cameras and set a few fires during a riot that took hours to contain and caused minor injuries to three inmates and one guard.

Guards deployed gas as inmates tried to destroy facility property, compromising security cameras, setting fires and refusing to comply with guards.

A riot in a prison northeast of Nashville has been contained, the sheriff says, and all prisoners returned to their cells after officers sprayed gas into the prison yard.