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Friday, September 4, 2009

Prison guard sliced by inmate
House of Correction in Northeast Philadelphia

An inmate at the Philadelphia House of Correction sliced a female prison guard in the face with a 4-inch piece of metal earlier today.

Prison Commissioner Lou Giorla said the guard was attacked about 2 p.m. while she patrolled a cell block in the general population area. "She had received a laceration to the face from an unruly inmate with a homemade weapon," Giorla said. "Thank God she wasn't seriously injured."

Giorla said it was unclear why the prisoner, whose name wasn't released, attacked the guard.

Lorenzo North, the president of the Prison Guards Union Local 159, identified the guard as Natasha Bryant, 32.  Bryant  received "stitches below her eye" at Jeanes Hospital, North said. She's worked at the House of Correction, on State Road in Northeast Philadelphia, for about a year. "Our job is dangerous, but people don't realize it. If I'd call you up every time one of our officers got hurt, I'd be calling every day," he added.

 

 
Posted by David Gambacorta @ 5:49 PM  Permalink | 18 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:10 PM, 09/04/2009
    Shanked with a shiv...
    — kjuggs77
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:27 PM, 09/04/2009
    wHAT A JOB! There is not enough money in this world for me to work there.
    — Monique26
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:41 PM, 09/04/2009
    ...just a union head trying to get his union workers a bigger pay check. "look how dangerous our job is..., we should all be paid more!". if the guy would call you up every time he told the truth, he would call you once every century.
    — rich_gelman
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:44 PM, 09/04/2009
    I worked 6 years in all 4 Phila. institutions couldn't pay me enough to work there again....
    — Dadair1
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:59 PM, 09/04/2009
    you gon' eat your cornbread?
    — gettpaidd
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:12 PM, 09/04/2009
    Natasha Bryant - swift full recovery wishes to you. Prosecute the inmate and give him an additional 3 years up state.
    — zen
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:20 PM, 09/04/2009
    God bless Natasha Brryant, I hope that the other guards take care of the savage who hurt her.
    — ED4050
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:56 PM, 09/04/2009
    punch the inmates ticket, make an example of him.
    — fmrgtwnboy
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:56 PM, 09/04/2009
    If non-violent drug offenders weren't in prison,then we could control the violent ones more easily
    — dobenbec
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:57 PM, 09/04/2009
    punch the inmates ticket, make an example of him.
    — fmrgtwnboy


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