Information concerning the stabbing of two correctional officers stabbed at Hays Correctional Institute, or the identities of the two men, have yet to be released by the Georgia Department of Corrections as of  this morning. 

AM1180 spoke with DOC  Northern Field Operations Manager Rick Jacobs on Tuesday. He assured us that information will be issued in a press release by the Department of Corrections sometime today. He told AM1180 that he will personally phone us with that information. 

 Sources indicate that both officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries and both were taken to a nearby hospital.  

AM1180 sources indicate the incident tool place at the Pennville prison around 1 a.m. Sunday morning when a corrections officer and a sergeant were stabbed during an altercation involving an inmate  According to sources, the incident occurred outside the dormitory when a corrections officer was attacked by at least one inmate with a home made knife, or "shank". AM 1180 has learned that the officers were stabbed with an "extraordinarily long" shank.  Another corrections officer came to the defense of the officer being stabbed and was also stabbed in the altercation.   

The situation at Hays State Prison is growing increasingly dangerous.  Over the past month, four inmates have died – three of those deaths have been homicides according to the DOC.  The fourth death was reportedly an inmate that had chronic health issues. The DOC has been very limited in the amount of information that they release to the public, local law enforcement and the media.