Attack on Guards at South Mississippi Correctional Institution

Attack on Guards at South Mississippi Correctional Institution

South Mississippi Correctional Institution, Greene County, Mississippi
September 22, 2014

Seven correctional officers were attacked by at least five prisoners as they left a housing unit following a shakedown.

Another guard was attacked two days before in a different unit of the prison when a prisoner hit him in the head with a bread tray.

Citations:

Leakesville prison on lockdown after 7 officers assaulted, 5 attackers identified“, Gulf Live, September 23, 2014.