By Matthew Spina
Buffalo News
ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. — An inmate at the Erie County Correctional Facility lost a tooth last week when he intervened in a fight between two corrections officers scrapping over a bag of chips, prison personnel told The Buffalo News.
The fight erupted April 21 in the Yankee Building, across the street from the jail’s main campus in Alden. The building features open housing for prisoners considered to be lesser security risks. The inmate apparently had tried to break up the fight.
Jail supervisors suspended the two officers with pay, as the contract with the Civil Service Employees Association requires. Meanwhile, the sheriff’s Professional Standards Unit began an investigation likely to produce disciplinary charges.
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