State disputes claim that understaffing led to attack on Nebraska corrections officer


LINCOLN, NE (Omaha World-Herald News Source) – Officials with the union that represents corrections officers maintained Monday that understaffing and improper staffing led to the stabbing of an officer at Tecumseh State Prison last week, though a prison spokeswoman disputed that.

An officer was stabbed 15 times on Thursday with an improvised knife in an attack by two inmates at the prison’s special management unit.

Officials with the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 88 said that the special management unit was staffed by fewer officers than normal that night.

But State Corrections spokeswoman Laura Strimple told the Omaha World-Herald the unit was correctly staffed at the time of the assault and that the three who were involved in the incident were all properly trained.

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