
BOSTON (AP) - Four guards at a maximum security state prison in Massachusetts have been injured by an inmate wielding a homemade weapon. The president of the correctional officers union says the inmate slashed one guard's neck and stabbed another in the cheek Wednesday night at the Souza-Baranowksi Correction Center in Shirley after being told he would have to share a cell. Two other guards suffered minor injuries. A prisons spokeswoman confirmed that four correctional officers were hurt, and said their injuries were not life-threatening. read more
