Female prison officer stabbed and kicked in prisoner fight

A female prison officer has been hospitalised after being injured with a shiv during a fight between prisoners.

RTÉ reports that the officer at Mountjoy Prison was attacked and cut with a homemade knife. It's claimed she was kicked and slashed with the prison made knife referred to behind bars as a shiv.

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The injury was inflicted when officers went to the scene to intervene row reportedly broke out among ten prisoners on one of the prison's wings on Tuesday afternoon, April 19.