By Greg Larry
Cumberland Times News
CRESAPTOWN, Md. — A correctional officer was hospitalized Monday morning after he was stabbed multiple times at the North Branch Correctional Institution in Cresaptown.
According to the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, officer James Vinci, 50, received stab wounds to the upper body and neck.
Vinci, a 17-year veteran officer, was flown to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore and was listed in stable condition Monday afternoon.
The suspect, inmate Travis Terry, 34, of Baltimore, was apprehended and a weapon recovered, authorities said.
Terry was serving a life sentence plus 45 years for first-degree murder, armed robbery, use of a handgun, robbery, attempted murder and assaulting a correctional officer. He has been in prison since 2007. His conviction for assaulting another correctional officer occurred in 2009.
Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary Stephen T. Moyer spent Monday afternoon at Shock Trauma with the officer. Gov. Larry Hogan called Vinci’s family to express support.
Terry was housed in disciplinary segregation at the time of the incident. Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services investigators are talking to witnesses and reviewing videotape of the assault.
North Branch is a maximum-security facility that houses nearly 1,500 male inmates.
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