Two officers were stabbed by inmates at a maximum-security prison in Massachusetts, and three more were injured Wednesday night, according to a spokesperson for the prison.
Scott Croteau, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, said in a statement Thursday that five officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, about an hour’s drive northwest of Boston, were hospitalized following the stabbings which were reported to the department around 6:20 p.m. local time.
Two officers had multiple stab wounds, and the other three were injured when they responded to the confrontation, Croteau said…