Bitten-off fingers, thrown excrement: B.C. prison guard assaults on the rise

Bitten-off fingers, thrown excrement: B.C. prison guard assaults on the rise - BCGEU

Published on January 12, 2018

It was revealed this week that a guard at Surrey's pretrial centre joined an average of 95 others who are attacked by inmates in B.C. each year.

The union representing corrections officers said the guard "was badly beaten and lost part of a finger" during the attack on Jan. 2.

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