Wartburg, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Visitors are allowed back in and the lock down is over at the Morgan County Correctional Complex.

Officers locked down the facility after two different fights broke out on Friday afternoon: one in the rec yard and another in a housing unit.

Department of Corrections spokesperson Dorinda Carter tells Volunteer TV eight inmates were treated for injuries at the facility and five officers were taken to hospitals with cuts and bruises but have all been released.

Inmates involved in the fight will remain on lock down as the investigation continues.

Disciplinary action is pending.

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MORGAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) – A maximum security prison in East Tennessee remained on lock down late Friday night after several corrections officers were injured in two separate fights among inmates.

Tennessee Department of Correction Spokeswoman Dorinda Carter told Volunteer TV News that five officers at the Morgan County Correctional Complex in Wartburg were injured during the fights. The first happened around 2:00 p.m. in a recreation yard and was followed by a second in one of the prison’s housing units. In both fights, the officers were injured while trying to break up inmates.

All five correctional officers were treated for their injuries and according to TDOC officials; none of them were seriously hurt.

The inmates involved in the fights will face disciplinary hearings at some point in the future. Lock down was expected to be lifted sometime on Saturday.

The Morgan County Correctional Complex reopened last year after an extensive renovation project replacing the century old Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex in Petros. It can house more than 2,400 inmates and is the TDOC’s only maximum security prison in East Tennessee.