Shirley Correction Officers Assaulted By Inmate

By The WBUR Newsroom
Nov 5, 2009, 3:41 PM
3 Comments

A unit of the state’s maximum security prison in Shirley is in lockdown after an inmate assaulted four correction officers Thursday night.

Steve Kenneway, head of the union which represents prison guards, said one of the officers was slashed in the throat and another was stabbed on his cheek after a prisoner became enraged because he was assigned to double bunk with another inmate at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center.

All four officers were taken to a nearby hospital where they were treated and released.

A Department of Corrections official said the rest of the prison is operating normally.

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http://wbur.org jose rios

my coment is this,if you want a safe and a peacful faclity allow the people bunk with who they feel most comfortble with…
Ryan B

My comment is this Mr Rios, the criminals should have zero say with anything. I want a safe and peaceful facility, I say the way to do it is keep the thugs and losers in their cells 24 hours a day. They should have zero contact with the guards except when they are lead to their cells, and when they are released from jai. The inmates truly are running the asylum, the priveledges they are given are the true crime.
Acdc2l

I don’t like the fact that inmates must share a cell. I have a brother in this facility, and he is there just for being stupid with his drinking “a fight”. I would not like to believe that he would be forced to bunk with a hardned crimminal or murderer.