By Jerry DeMarco
Cliff View Pilot
AVENEL, NJ — A state corrections officer was badly beaten by a group of residents at the state’s prison for sex offenders in Avenel — the second attack on an officer at a state Corrections facility in less than two weeks.
The incident comes amid protests by state corrections officers about staffing cuts at certain high-security facilities, and follows an incident in which an officer was slashed earlier this month at the Mid-State Correctional Facility in Wrightstown.
Last week, two inmates were indicted by a state grand jury on charges of assaulting a pair of corrections officers, sending both to the hospital, at the Mountainview Correctional Facility in Clinton Township in November 2011.
In this weekend’s incident, Officer Maurice Marcyves, an 11-year department veteran, was rescued by fellow officers after he was set upon by several offenders at the Avenel Diagnostic and Treatment Center.
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