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   MN Department of Corrections   
      
   A Minnesota prison inmate has been charged with partially blinding a   
   corrections officer during an attack earlier this year.   
      
   Prosecutors have identified the inmate as 36-year-old Dominique Antoine   
   Jefferson, who has been incarcerated at Minnesota Correctional Facility–Oak   
   Park Heights since 2005 for aiding and abetting second-degree murder.   
      
   According to the charges against him, on the morning of January 15, Jefferson   
   requested to speak to a member of the crisis intervention team. After a "brief   
   exchange of words," the victim — a correctional sergeant — instructed   
   Jefferson to return to    
   his cell.   
      
   Instead, prosecutors say, he took a clear plastic mouthguard out of his   
   pocket, placed it in his mouth, told the sergeant to "ring the bell" and said,   
   "I've been waiting for you."   
      
   When the sergeant reached for her radio to call for assistance, the inmate   
   punched her in the eye, causing her to fall to the ground, the charges state.   
   Other officers "quickly" restrained Jefferson.   
      
   The sergeant was taken via ambulance to Regions Hospital, where she was found   
   to have "significant damage" to her right eye as well as multiple facial   
   fractures.   
      
   "Despite undergoing multiple surgeries over the past several months, the   
   injuries sustained from the attack have caused irreparable damage and resulted   
   in the permanent loss of vision in her right eye," the Washington County   
   Attorney's Office said in a    
   press release. "She will also require additional surgical procedures to repair   
   the fractures to her facial bones."   
      
   Jefferson is now charged with first-degree assault, which carries a sentence   
   of up to 25 years in prison.   
      
   "Under no circumstance is the assault of a correctional officer tolerable, and   
   the permanent harm that resulted from this assault is life-altering," said   
   Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell."We stand in support of   
   the sergeant who    
   suffered this horrific injury and we are grateful to the Washington County   
   Attorney's Office for their thoughtful review of this case, which resulted in   
   these serious criminal charges."   
      
   This past week, seven corrections officers were wounded in three separate   
   attacks at both Oak Park Heights and Stillwater prison.   
      
   https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/inmate-charged-in-atta   
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