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Two Emergency Services Unit correction officers were slashed by a detainee with a long history of violence during a routine transfer at Rikers Island Wednesday night.

Oliver Sundance, 30, used a one-inch ceramic scalpel blade — a weapon scanning devices are unable to detect — to attack the two officers at the North Infirmary Command as they were moving him from the facility’s main intake at 10:52 p.m., according to an initial internal Department of Correction (DOC) report obtained by THE CITY.

The latest attack underscores the struggle jail officials ha

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