A 31-hour protest by about 130 segregation inmates at Roxbury Correctional Institution over living conditions ended without incident and led to a meeting with the warden, who agreed to look into their complaints, corrections officials said.

"It was confined to one unit," said Denise Gelsinger, a spokeswoman for the prison south of Hagerstown. "It was business as usual elsewhere in the prison during the protest."

The protest, which began Wednesday at 5 a.m. and ended Thursday at noon, was over restrictions on personal items prisoners are allowed to keep in their cells, said Maj. Priscilla Doggett, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Division of Correction.

The inmates refused to return food trays and blocked windows of their cell doors so correctional officers could not see inside. Inmates did not resist when correctional officers eventually forced their cell doors open, Doggett said.

Segregation inmates are routinely fed in their cells, Gelsinger said.

"The inmates involved were fed during this period unless they refused," she said.

RCI's warden, Roderick Sowers, met with the prisoners after they ended their protest and agreed to look into their complaints, Doggett said.

"We were willing to demonstrate patience to resolve this peacefully," Doggett said.

Only inmates in two segregation tiers were involved in the protest. RCI has approximately 1,800 inmates, Doggett said.

A recent rash of inmate-on-inmate violence at RCI led to the placement of more inmates in segregation, she said. Some of those in segregation for administrative reasons had to be housed on tiers for disciplinary segregation inmates and, for security reasons, were not permitted to have personal items with them in their cells, she said.