One correction officer was stabbed a dozen times by a 6-inch piece of metal sharpened to a point with a cloth wrapped handle affixed, according to court documents.
Three inmates accused of assaulting multiple correction officers at Massachusetts’s only maximum-security prison are now facing charges, the state Department of Correction announced.
The three men, who are incarcerated at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, were charged last Friday. Five correction officers were hospitalized after the incident on Wednesday, Sept. 18, a spokesperson for the department said.
Jose Crespo, 39, Heriberto Rivera-Negron, 36, and Jeffrey Tapia, 30, are each charged with mayhem, armed assault to murder, and assault to murder. Each man will appear in court later in October…