Penitentiary guard stabbed with sharpened toothbrush
WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) - A Washington state Penitentiary inmate has been charged with assaulting a correctional officer who was stabbed with a sharpened toothbrush.
Sgt. James Bailey was breaking up a fight on Feb. 4 of last year in the commons area of a unit for high-risk prisoners.
The Union-Bulletin reports he took several blows but suffered only bumps and bruises because a memo notebook pad in a shirt pocket prevented the weapon from penetrating.
Castulo J. Rivas was charged Tuesday in Walla Walla with assault. Another inmate involved in the fight, Juan Valdez, was charged with custodial assault.
Bailey and three other officers injured in the fight were treated at a hospital. Four units at the prison were locked down for several days.
Sgt. James Bailey was breaking up a fight on Feb. 4 of last year in the commons area of a unit for high-risk prisoners.
The Union-Bulletin reports he took several blows but suffered only bumps and bruises because a memo notebook pad in a shirt pocket prevented the weapon from penetrating.
Castulo J. Rivas was charged Tuesday in Walla Walla with assault. Another inmate involved in the fight, Juan Valdez, was charged with custodial assault.
Bailey and three other officers injured in the fight were treated at a hospital. Four units at the prison were locked down for several days.
Old news. Yawn. Goes with the territory. Start putting more bullet holes in these scum buckets that are ruining our world.
Wait, why did it take so long for the inmate to be charged?
 @Tattooed_Angel Wasn't going anywhere was he?
I think a shiv is a sharpened piece of plastic, and a shank is a handmade weapon. But shank can be a noun or a verb. So the question is whether it's proper prison-speak to shank someone with a shiv, or can you shiv someone with a shank? Or do you have to shiv with a shiv and shank with a shank?Â
We need to ban all assault style toothbrushes and limit the number of bristles on them. This is getting out of hand.
Why was this man not charged with attempted murder? he had a lethal weapon and used in on the guard. if the notebook was not there it would have been murder.
Prison guards have a very difficult job to do. They have to be careful around the cons so they don't upset them, don't trample on their "rights", and take all sorts of garbage that the cons spew out.
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Maybe it's time for the guards to deal out the same kind of treatment that cons do to each other. Stab a guard? Throw urine and feces on a guard? Take the con outside behind some building and administer some proper "justice". Then let it be known that the guards will no longer tolerate abuse, attacks, or any sort of violent act aimed at them.
 @Veteran Too much tv, not enough reality.
was he mocked snohomish county style?
That guard deserves a plaque.
A shanking in a prison is considered news? Last time I checked, it was just considered business as usual.
 Feb. 4 of last year, and KOMO is just now posting this? Slow news day?
Note to state, take away the toothbrushes.
 @SimplyJD and how about the free dental and health care we don't get on the outside too! make the toothbrush handle 2" long before giving them out to inmates.
@32jim2 Better idea... they have toothbrushes that you can just slip on your finger. Like a finger glove with bristles. THOSE should be the only toothbrushes allowed for inmates.
Glad all the officers are OK, but was it ever found, what started the fight?Â
Juan Valdez? Didn't he use to advertise Colombian coffee?
 @Ned Perhaps they found out what was in his coffee imports?
Wow, thanks for the breaking news, Happened a year ago?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a sharpened toothbrush is a good guy with a notebook pad?Â