CLALLAM BAY — The Clallam Bay Corrections Center remained on lockdown Thursday as an investigation into an attack on a correctional officer continued.
Correctional officer Terry Breedlove suffered extensive facial injuries and memory loss when he was beaten over the head Monday morning, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said.
He is in treatment at Forks Community Hospital.
“He is better today,” said Fay Gingell, spokeswoman for the corrections center.
The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office was called in to investigate the attack, in which deputies believe a single inmate — Abdinjib Ibraham, 28, of King County — was involved.
Emergency help was requested for Breedlove at 9:24 a.m. Monday after the attack by an inmate, said Chief Criminal Deputy Brian King.
The 900-inmate facility was put on lockdown Monday and remained in that status while staff members conducted searches of cells and inmates.
Inmates are confined to their cells and there is no visitation.
Gingell said the lockdown will continue until officials are satisfied with the investigation.
Planning for the end of the lockdown is complete, but prison officials have no estimate of when that will happen, she said.
Ibraham has been transferred to Walla Walla Corrections Center during the investigation, said Deputy Ed Anderson, the interim West End supervisor for the Sheriff’s Office, who is in charge of the investigation.
Beaten over head
Breedlove was on duty in a medium-security portion of the prison when Ibraham attacked him, prying a round metal seat off a stool in a cell and repeatedly hitting Breedlove over the head with it, Anderson said.
Other inmates reported the attack to correctional officers, who responded and ended the attack, he said.
He said no correctional officers witnessed the attack, and Breedlove could not remember it because of his brain injury.
The attack took place in an area where the security camera was not working, according to investigators.
Ibraham is serving a King County sentence for four counts of vehicular assault, driving under the influence, second-degree taking a motor vehicle and first-degree robbery.
All of the charges stem from a single wreck on Thanksgiving Day in 2013 in south Seattle in which Ibraham, driving a stolen car, fled police and hit another car, injuring five members of a family, according to Anderson.
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