By Eric Stock
PONTIAC – A stabbing at the Pontiac Correctional Center has promoted prison officials to place the facility on lockdown.
News partner WMBD reports an inmate stabbed a corrections officer in the head with a sharp object at the prison on Sunday during the day shift. A union official said the inmate was subdued while the officer was treated and released from a local hospital.
The Illinois Department of Corrections is investigating.
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