Kansas Department of Corrections

 At approximately 8:28 a.m. Wednesday Corrections Officer Tim Russell of the Hutchinson Correctional Facility (HCF) was injured after he received multiple stab wounds while working at the HCF-Central Unit. Russell who is a 5 year veteran of the facility was transported to the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center by EMS.

Critical Incident Stress Team members are on site to assist facility staff who have been affected by this incident.

One inmate was taken into custody and was placed in the Administrative Segregation Unit. A weapon was recovered at the scene.

Special Agents with the Kansas Department of Corrections who are assigned to HCF are conducting the ongoing investigation. Upon completion of the investigation the case will be referred to the Reno County District Attorney’s Office,

 

 

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Hutchinson- According to Dirk Moss with Hutchinson Correctional Facility, the officer received what are said to be non-life-threatening injuries in the stabbing on Wednesday morning. He was transported by EMS to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center for treatment. According to Moss, one inmate was taken into confinement and is being held in the Segregation Unit in connection with the incident. No names have been released at this time.

Moss says the prison was never put into lock down and the facility is running as normal.

 

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HUTCHINSON- At approximately 8:28 a.m. Wednesday, a Correctional Officer at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility-Central Unit received multiple stab wounds. He was transported to the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center by EMS. His medical condition is not known at this time. Facility staff are with the officer at the hospital.

One inmate was taken into custody and was placed in the Administrative Segregation Unit.

Due to the ongoing investigation no other information is available at this time.