Two Correctional Officers Stabbed at CCI Tehachapi

According to breaking news released by press agencies and the CDC, one officer was stabbed twice in the forehead and a second was stabbed in the arm today by an inmate, using a homemade weapon that he pulled from his pants. A third officer stopped the attack using his side-handle baton.

Both officers were taken to the hospital and there has been no news released at this point about their condition. California Correctional Institution, commonly known as CCI, in Tehachapi, California was locked down.

A race riot occurred at CCI back in February between black and Hispanic inmates. There has been no information made available at this point regarding the motive behind today's attack.

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UPDATE 5:38PM

From www.sfgate.com

Both officers were treated and released from a hospital, and the maximum security building and yard at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi was locked down, said Department of Corrections spokesman Todd Slosek.

The names of the injured guards and the alleged attacker were not immediately released.

The stabbings followed the Jan. 10 stabbing death of an officer at the California Institution for Men in Chino, the first Department of Corrections guard killed in the line of duty since 1985.

Friday's attack came about 8:45 a.m. after the inmate set off a metal detector as he was released to an exercise yard, Slosek said.

As he moved toward a group of inmates, guards tried searching him. Despite being hit with pepper spray, he pulled a 4- to 6-inch homemade knife from his pants and attacked, Slosek said. The attack was stopped by a third officer using a baton, said spokeswoman Terry Thornton.

The 44-year-old inmate was serving a 31-year Los Angeles County sentence for attempted first-degree murder since Christmas Eve 1990, but served prior stints dating to 1981, Thornton said.

Both guards were wearing stab-resistant vests, she said.

The prison about 40 miles east of Bakersfield was the scene of a race riot Feb. 24 involving 480 black and Hispanic inmates that left three inmates injured.