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| Inmate stabbed after lockdown is lifted |
| By Baltimore Sun |
| Published: 03/03/2005 |
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An inmate was stabbed at the Maryland House of Corrections Annex in Jessup Wednesday, only hours after authorities lifted a lockdown that had confined 1,200 inmates to their cells for nearly a month as officials searched the violence-plagued facility for homemade weapons. The 40-year-old inmate was stabbed at 2:45 p.m. by another prisoner, 20, who had pried a piece of metal from a light fixture in his cell and fashioned it into a shank, said Capt. Priscilla Doggett, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Division of Correction. She said the stabbing occurred on the upper tier of Housing Unit 5 at the prison, and that the injured inmate was treated by medical personnel at the prison for nonlife-threatening injuries. "The attacker was taken into custody, and the weapon was confiscated," Doggett said. Corrections Commissioner Frank C. Sizer, Jr. was walking through the prison with the warden Wednesday night to assess the climate at the prison, she said. "He emphasizes that if he determines it is necessary to lock down that institution again, he will not hesitate to do so," she said. The prison had been locked down since Feb. 7, after four consecutive days of inmate stabbings. In addition, there had been a fatal stabbing there in January and another in an adjacent prison in December. During a lockdown, inmates are restricted to their cells, denied recreation and work privileges, and visitors are barred. Doggett said that the lockdown ended at 11 a.m. Wednesday and normal operations inside the prison resumed, including mass movements for meals, recreation and other activities. Visitors had been permitted at the prison over the weekend, she said. Authorities had no information Wednesday night to indicate that Wednesday's stabbing was related to those early last month, Doggett said. regardless of what authorities do to try to stop them. |
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