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CHESHIRE — The union that represents correction officers at the Cheshire Correctional Complex is expressing concerns over officer safety after an inmate “violently assaulted” a prison worker on Wednesday.
State correction officer and AFSCME Local 387 President Rudy Demiraj said a 20-year-old inmate at the Mansion Youth Institution attacked a correction officer Wednesday, sending the officer to the hospital.
The “brutal attack” is the second in six months, according to Demiraj. A correction officer at Cheshire Correctional was stabbed in the neck last October and a second was hurt while trying to intervene.
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