LAURINBURG, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Scotland Correctional Institutional inmate assaulted one correctional employee Saturday morning.
It happened at 8:40 a.m. when inmate Cadarius Thomas assaulted one correctional employee in the canteen area of a housing unit at the prison.
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Additional staff members were called in to assist and the employee was taken to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
Thomas was treated at the Scotland medical facility.
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The housing unit was placed on lockdown.
The incident is under internal investigation. DPS is cooperating with law enforcement and will pursue criminal prosecution against the inmate.
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