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| Inmate in cell stabs officer in the arm |
| By Baltimore Sun |
| Published: 05/04/2005 |
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An inmate at the Maryland House of Correction Annex stabbed one of several correctional officers who had entered his cell yesterday morning to subdue him, a state prisons spokeswoman said. The incident began about 10:30 a.m., when the inmate refused to comply with staff orders while breakfast was being delivered to cells at the maximum-security Jessup prison. Capt. Priscilla Doggett, the spokeswoman, said officers used pepper spray on the inmate before entering, but he lunged at them with a shank -- a homemade knife -- and stabbed one in the upper right arm. The officer, whose name was not divulged, was released after treatment at a hospital, Doggett said, adding that the inmate, who also was not identified, was not injured. Doggett said the stabbing occurred on a segregation tier, where inmates deemed security risks are housed. The incident remains under investigation. For the past several months, prison officials have grappled with inmate attacks at state prisons in Jessup, with union officials blaming chronic understaffing of correctional officers for the violence. Since December, two inmates have died from stabbings at two Jessup prisons and at least six inmates were reported injured in various incidents. |
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