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Prison guard stabbed at Florida facility

Columbia Correctional Institution
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LAKE CITY, Fla. - Officials say a corrections officer was ambushed and stabbed at a Florida prison.

Florida Department of Corrections spokesman Alberto Moscoso told The Miami Herald that 41-year-old Shane Biancaniello was airlifted to a Gainesville hospital Monday afternoon. His injuries weren't considered life-threatening.

Moscoso says Biancaniello suffered "superficial" wounds, and two other guards sustained minor injuries during a melee at Columbia Correctional Institution, a maximum security facility in Lake City.

Authorities weren't immediately saying how many inmates were involved.