COLUMBUS, Ohio — One of two inmates suspected in the stabbing of an Ohio prison guard is a three-time convicted killer who boasted about strangling a fellow inmate on a prison bus. Prisoner Casey Pigge was taken from the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility after Tuesday’s attack and transferred to the state’s Supermax prison in Youngstown, Joe Hale, a Scioto County assistant prosecutor, said Wednesday. Two inmates attacked the guard in the prison infirmary with metal weapons, according to the initial incident report from the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Prisons spokeswoman JoEllen Smith confirmed a “serious inmate on staff assault” at the prison in Lucasville in southern Ohio and said the prison remains on lockdown. In September, Pigge pleaded guilty to strangling fellow inmate David Johnson with a restraining chain as they rode on a prison transport van.

Source: National Post February 22, 2018 00:11 UTC