Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Police say a corrections officer has been hospitalized after an inmate stabbed him with a makeshift nail at a northeast Philadelphia prison.
The attack occurred just before 6 p.m. Wednesday at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in the city’s Holmesburg section. Police say 20-year-old Matthew Early stabbed the 25-year-old officer in the face, head, neck, shoulders and arms.
Lorenzo North, president of the local correctional officers union, identified the officer as Tyree Holmes. He was treated and released from Aria-Torresdale Hospital Wednesday evening.
Early is awaiting sentencing on charges of attempted murder in a 2012 shooting at a train station that injured two Chicago Bulls fans. Prosecutors say Early and his brother had been arguing with the Bulls fans after a Philadelphia 76ers game.
The name of Early’s public defender wasn’t available.