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| Three officers attacked at Ionia County prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/05/2004 |
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A lockdown at a medium-security prison in Ionia County (Mich.) ended Monday about 11 hours after two inmates violently attacked three prison officers, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections said. Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said an inmate began punching a corrections officer at 7 p.m. EDT Sunday at the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility a few hours after he received a ticket for misconduct from the officer. When two other officers attempted to end the assault, they were attacked by another inmate who hit them with a padlock wrapped in a sock, Marlan said. Emergency response teams from the prison and a neighboring correctional facility helped to lock the two inmates in a room with 27 other prisoners, Marlan said. The two gave up after two hours and were arrested, but movement was restricted in the prison until Monday morning as a precaution, he said. The two inmates were taken to maximum security prisons - one to Ionia Maximum Correctional Facility and the other to the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility, Marlan said. The three injured corrections officers had to be hospitalized, Marlan said. The first one attacked was the most seriously injured and had to get 40 staples to his head and face; one of the others got eight staples and another received three staples, he said. All had been released by the hospital by Monday afternoon, Marlan said. |
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