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Michigan corrections officers protest staff cuts following prisoner attack on guard
By tribtown.com
Published: 10/24/2014

TITTABAWASSEE TOWNSHIP, Michigan — Michigan corrections officers are protesting staffing cuts that they say led to an attack on a guard near Saginaw last week.

Nearly 100 members of a state corrections officers union rallied on Thursday near the Saginaw Correctional Facility in Tittabawassee Township. They say a lack of officers has caused a safety and security crisis at the prison.

Officials say a prisoner bludgeoned Kevin Ott in the head and stabbed him several times on Oct. 17. Family members say Ott is now recovering at home.

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