Jones Co. corrections officer stabbed while preventing inmate escape Wednesday JCSD Captain Vince Williams is leading the investigation into the incident. (Source: wdam) By Renaldo Hopkins | December 11, 2020 at 12:55 PM CST - Updated December 11 at 12:55 PM
JONES COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - A Jones County Sheriff’s Department corrections officer was stabbed while preventing the escape of an inmate Wednesday afternoon.
According to JCSD, Corrections Officer Jason Godwin was transporting inmate Jason Sandy Blackledge to the Jones County Adult Detention Facility when Blackledge attempted to run.
Godwin caught Blackledge, but Blackledge attacked Godwin with a sharpened “shank” made from plastic spoons and a shredded blanket, the sheriff’s department said.