By Chip Scarborough
WTOK
LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Miss. — Lauderdale County investigatiors say a correctional officer was stabbed through a tray hole door on Wednesday morning while delivering breakfast to the inmates.
Chief Deputy Ward Calhoun says the inmate somehow conjured up a weapon in his cell and stabbed the officer. EMCF Warden Jerry Buscher tells Newscenter 11 the correctional officer was stabbed just below the belt line, but wasn’t seriously hurt. Calhoun says it is a felony offense to assault a correctional officer.
This case will go before the next available grand jury.
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