Correction officer assaulted at the Cheshire Correctional Institution

A correction officer was assaulted at Cheshire Correctional Institution Thursday night. The state Department of Correction said the correction officer was distributing trays of food at dinner just before 4:30 p.m. when someone who was incarcerated started punching him. More staff members responded and quickly restrained the assailant, who was transported to the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution’s Restrictive Housing Unit, according...