After the riot was over, inmates had stabbed seven correctional officers and held three employees hostage for 17 hours.

"The Cubans were talking to Mandy and the inmate just came up and stabbed him," Mr. Sheehan said.

"I agree that if an inmate stabs an officer he should be disciplined," Ms. Nathan said.

Some inmates, referred to as "crawlers" and "creepers," stabbed sleeping prisoners.

In the first 10 months, 20 inmates at the prison, the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, were stabbed, two of them fatally.

On June 21, 2011, Timothy Washington, a 48-year-old inmate serving a sentence for drug trafficking stabbed another inmate with a homemade prison weapon known as a shank.

At the prison, Gob's just-started first game of catch with his father ends when a fellow inmate, White Power Bill, stabs the brash magician.

Several days ago, an inmate at Rikers Island stabbed another inmate, Mr. Seabrook said, an incident that probably would not have happened before the May layoffs.

One inmate stabbed another inmate.

The confrontation on Saturday night began when an inmate stabbed a guard captain in an open area of a cellblock, Mr. Fairchild said.