CHESHIRE, Connecticut — A correctional officer in Connecticut was lucky to escape alive Monday after being brutally attacked by an inmate.

The reported incident occurred on Aug. 25, at 11: 18 a.m., in the Cheshire Correctional Institution in the town of Cheshire.

Three correctional officers are said to have sustained various injuries to the neck, back and knees while restraining the inmate.

A release Wednesday from AFSCME Council 4, a union representing the correctional officers, announced and described the assault.

It says the inmate “attacked a correctional officer viciously and without provocation during mealtime.”

The inmate then threw searing hot coffee in the correctional officer’s face, according to the union.

At that point, the inmate is said to have revealed a shank, or an

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