Officer attacked at the Sullivan County Prison

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         Charges are pending against an offender at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle after an attack on an officer Thursday morning.  Shaka Shakur is now facing criminal battery charges.  Shakur was in the recreation pad area of the Secured Confinement Unit when officials report he attacked a Correctional Officer with a sharpened plastic object.

        The Officer, John Sexton,  was taken to Sullivan County Community Hospital and was treated for a broken nose, arm and rib puncture wounds and released.
The facility Office of Investigations and Intelligence (OII) continues their investigation into this attack.
Shakur is serving a 63-year sentence on Lake County attempted-murder, attempted-battery and other charges.