A female correction officer was assaulted at Osborn Correctional Institution, an all-male facility in Somers on Monday.

During security check, an inmate began choking and punching the officer in the face without being provoked or warned.

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Staff members immediately responded to the incident and restrained the inmate, who was transported to the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution’s Restrictive Housing Unit.

The attack was an attempted sexual assault of the officer by an inmate serving 20 years for other sexually-related crimes, according to AFSCME Local 391, the union that represents correction officers.

In a news release from the union, they said it happened in the industries area and that the inmate dragged

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