3 inmates to face charges after attack on correction officers

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.

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Framegrab from a video released Friday by the union representing the five corrections officers who were attacked by inmates, two of whom were stabbed, captures the violence that unfolded Sept. 18, 2024 at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Mass.

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…

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