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Prison inmate stabbed by fellow inmate

ST. CLAIRSVILLE– An assault that occurred earlier this week between two inmates left one of them hospitalized.

The assault occurred Tuesday evening at the Belmont Correctional Institution outside of St. Clairsville. Eric Lyle, assistant warden, said the fight was a “one-on-one assault.”

The victim of the assault remains at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center while the assailant is being housed in the transitional or segregation unit of the prison, Lyle said.

The incident is under investigation by the Ohio State Highway Patrol district headquarters in Cambridge.

Neither of the involved inmates has been named during the ongoing investigation.

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