Inmate who stabbed SCI-Greene guard won’t be charged
WAYNESBURG – The inmate who stabbed a corrections officer at SCI-Greene nearly a dozen times in November will not be charged.
State police Trooper Daniel Barnhart, who investigated the Nov. 19 stabbing, said they decided against filing charges after speaking with Greene County District Attorney Marjorie Fox and the injured corrections officer.
Barnhart said the inmate’s life sentence for murder was also a leading factor against filing charges since he will not be released from prison. Neither the inmate nor the corrections officer have been identified.
Fox declined to discuss the incident except to say “nothing will be filed at the present time.”
The inmate ambushed the guard in the pod area of the general population B-Block and used a shank during the attack that lasted for nearly a minute. The corrections officer suffered 10 cuts and lacerations, most of which were superficial wounds, although one cut to the back of the head required stitches, police said.
The guard subdued the prisoner and other correction officers were able to come to his aid to restrain the attacker. Investigators did not release a motive for the attack at the prison in Franklin Township.
The guard was taken to WHS-Greene hospital where he was treated and released.
Tracy Shawley, the assistant to the SCI-Greene superintendent, said Tuesday the officer is “doing fine” but still has not returned to his post following the attack.