A correctional officer was supervising inmates and had just entered the officer's station when an inmate attacked the officer. The correctional officer was hospitalized with two cuts on the left hand, a laceration on the left forehead, a laceration on the left side of the nose, a laceration on the inside of the left upper lip, a hematoma to the right forehead, a laceration through the right ear, bruises on the chest, bleeding from the right ear drum, and a broken nose.