Authorities were investigating after an inmate was stabbed and killed by another prisoner as the men made their way to their evening meal at the Jefferson City Correctional Center in Missouri.
Jack Webb, 34, was rushed to the prison infirmary Friday after a corrections officer noticed he was bleeding, said Corrections Department spokesman John Fougere. Emergency medical technicians and prison staff tried to save him, but Webb was pronounced dead around 5 p.m.
Fougere said he couldn't release where on his body Webb was stabbed.
Webb was serving five years for attempting to escape from the Pettis County Jail, along with two counts of second-degree assault and first-degree property damage. While in prison, Fougere said his sentence was extended by a year after he was convicted of attacking a corrections employee.
One suspect has been detained and placed in a solitary cell, but no charges have been filed. Fougere said a handmade weapon was recovered.
The death marks the first homicide in the new facility since inmates were moved from the old Missouri State Penitentiary in September.