By Justine Lofton
mlive.com
MARQUETTE, Mich. — One corrections officer was stabbed in the face and another was punched in the face during an incident at a Michigan prison on Monday, union officials said.
The Michigan Corrections Organization, a labor union that represents officers and staff at state prisons, reported the alleged incident. It happened on Monday at the Marquette Branch Prison.
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The prisoner was returning from an outdoor yard period when he alleged attacked an officer with a prison-made weapon and then punched an officer who came to the first officer’s aide, Marquette Union President Ken Holman said in a statement.
MCO Vice President Tim Fleury reaffirmed to MLive on Thursday afternoon that the prisoner was in possession of two homemade weapons - one metal, one plastic - at the time of the incident and that the officer was stabbed in the face.
However, the Michigan Department of Corrections released a statement Wednesday evening, which says the officer “sustained no injuries consistent with the use of a sharp weapon.”
Both officers were sent to a local hospital for assessment, according to the department. They were treated for minor injuries and released.
The union expressed frustration with a prisoner-on-officer assaults.
“The repeated assaults committed by prisoners against corrections officers is a constant reminder of the fact that the Michigan Department of Corrections has major problems with its security classification process and its lack of adequate segregation beds and high security level prisons,” Holman said.
The department notes that it is increasing its high-security bed count with 190 new level four beds at at Macomb Correctional Facility.
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