Guard injured during prison fight
WAYNESBURG – A corrections officer at SCI-Greene was injured during a fight between two inmates Wednesday, a prison official said.
Tracy Shawley, assistant to the superintendent at SCI-Greene, declined to identify the officer or describe the nature of the injuries, but said they were “not life-threatening.”
“In an effort to control the situation, a corrections officer did receive an injury that required outside medical assistance,” she said.
She said she could not divulge how the officer was injured because of federal HIPPA regulations.
The identities of the two inmates involved in the fight or whether they suffered any injuries also was not released.
State police could not be reached for comment on whether troopers were investigating the incident.
It is the third report of an injury to a corrections officer in the past five months. An inmate stabbed an officer nearly a dozen times Nov. 19, causing one gash to the head that required treatment at WHS-Greene hospital. The inmate was not charged, investigators said, because he is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder.
An officer trainee was slashed on the arm with a razor blade March 24, causing a superficial wound, police said. State police charged Angel Muniz, 37, who is serving 19 ½ to 39 years in state prison for third-degree murder in Philadelphia in 1998, with aggravated assault and simple assault.
Those charges were held for court Friday morning during Muniz’s preliminary hearing before District Judge Glenn Bates.