The California Department of Corrections says High Desert State Prison in Susanville is investigating a staff assault that injured six correctional officers.
On Thursday morning, June 9, HDSP says an inmate attacked a correctional officer with a prisoner-made metal weapon while officers were processing inmates to the yard. It says the inmate stabbed the officer on his cheek, face, head and hand. He was transported to an outside hospital for treatment and is expected to recover.
Officers used physical force to subdue the inmate and stop his attack.
In addition, HDSP says five other officers were injured during the incident. One was treated at the prison’s medical facility for a bite wound. Four were also sent to the hospital for evaluation and treatment of abrasions, swelling and exposure to blood. One of the four had also been bitten.
HDSP says staff recovered one prisoner-made stabbing weapon at the scene.
HDSP investigators identified Desmond Walls, 36, as a suspect in the attack. Walls was received from Riverside County on October 17, 2008, and is serving a 21-year sentence for first-degree burglary and second-degree robbery with use of a firearm.
Inmate Walls was also injured and taken to a hospital for treatment.
