Troops controlled areas outside the El Rodeo prison in Venezuela for nearly a month
They were also charged with facilitating the trafficking of arms and drugs and associating with criminals in El Rodeo jail.
The riot at the jail, outside Caracas, began after a fight between rival inmate gangs of prisoners.
National Guards were then sent to search the jail for drugs and guns.
But one group of heavily armed prisoners refused to surrender, leading to a stand-off which went on for almost a month.
Overcrowding
The former governor of one half of the El Rodeo prison was
arrested alongside the deputy governor of the other section of the jail
and a captain of the National Guard who worked at the prison in late
June.
In a statement, the public prosecutors' office said the three
had been charged with corruption and have been remanded in custody to
await trial.
In response to the events at El Rodeo, President Hugo Chavez
created a new prisons ministry, which recently announced plans to
release almost half the country's inmates in order to ease overcrowding.
Venezuela's prisons house more than twice the number of
inmates they were originally designed for and violence amongst prisoners
is commonplace.
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