Stabbing Reported During Fight Inside Suffield Prison

SUFFIELD, CT — One incarcerated person was taken to a hospital after being stabbed during a fight inside a Suffield correctional facility, state officials said.

The fight happened around 6:40 p.m. Thursday, May 21, in the Walker building at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, according to the Connecticut Department of Correction.

Correctional staff responded to an in-unit recreation area and found five incarcerated people fighting, officials said. Staff separated them and later found that one of the people involved had been stabbed with a makeshift weapon.

The injured person was first checked by medical staff at the facility, then taken to an outside hospital for treatment, officials said. The person was treated, released and returned to MacDougall-Walker.

The unit was secured after the fight, according to officials. No correctional staff members were injured.

The cause of the fight remains under investigation. Connecticut State Police are also investigating, and the identities of those involved are not being released because the investigation is ongoing, officials said.

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