ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a correction officer at a maximum-security prison in upstate New York remains hospitalized after he was stabbed several times by an inmate armed with a homemade weapon.
A spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision says two officers were conducting a random search of the inmate’s cell at Elmira state prison on Wednesday when one of the guards was stabbed seven times in the upper torso with a nail-type weapon.
Officials say the officer has non-life-threatening injuries and remains hospitalized Thursday.
The second offer was stabbed in the hand. He and two other guards who suffered bumps and bruises were treated at a hospital and released, as was the inmate, 38-year-old Darius Ashley.
Officials say he’s serving a 40-year sentence for a rape committed in Albany County.
