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A group of inmates attacked and stabbed a fellow male inmate at the Utah State Prison in Draper on Wednesday, officials say.
"Several" men — the Utah Department of Corrections declined to give an exact number — stabbed the inmate about 4 p.m. in a cell at one of the Uinta facilities, which include maximum-security housing for high-profile, death-row and gang-member inmates.
The victim was stabbed "numerous times," according to a Corrections Department news release, and transported to a local hospital. He is expected to survive. It was not immediately known which unit the attack was in, nor the age of the victim.
Corrections Department spokeswoman Brooke Adams declined to say what the inmates used as a weapon. Unified police will handle the investigation, per protocol, and were not releasing more details Wednesday night.
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