By Martin E. Comas
Orlando Sentinel
COLEMAN — An inmate was flown to Orlando Regional Medical Center on Monday after being stabbed in the chest at the high-security Federal Correctional Complex in Sumter County. Emergency officials said the inmate was in serious condition and taken by medical helicopter just before 3 p.m. Traci Billingsley, a Bureau of Prison’s spokeswoman, had no information about what led to the stabbing.
Monday’s incident comes weeks after a Jan. 25 prison-yard brawl at the Coleman facility left eight inmates seriously injured with stab and gunshot wounds. Seven of those inmates were airlifted to ORMC. All but one have been discharged from the hospital and taken back to the federal prison.
The eighth inmate was treated at Leesburg Regional Medical Center and sent back to prison the following day. The FBI is investigating the January incident. The federal prison is in a rural area 50 miles northwest of Orlando.
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