STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Seven people have been charged in connection with a 2015 riot at a private prison in Payne County in which four inmates were stabbed to death.

Online court records indicate the charges were filed on Monday in Payne County District Court. Each defendant is charged with participating in a riot, a felony punishable by up to life in prison.

The deadly melee occurred on Sept. 12, 2015, at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing, which is a private prison owned and operated by Tennessee-based Corrections Corporation of America.

Authorities said at the time that the rio...