(Radio Iowa) – Two employees at the state’s maximum security prison in Fort Madison were stabbed 16 days ago and state officials have announced two inmates have been charged with attempted murder. Twenty-nine-year-old Dennis Lawson and 23-year-old Anthony Bauer are being charged with possession of weapons in a correctional institution as well as attempted murder. Online records indicate Bauer, the 23-year-old, was sentenced to 50 years after a fatal shooting in Sioux City four years ago.

Lawson is classified by the Department of Corrections as a habitual offender, with a recent felony conviction in Woodbury County in 2021. According to the Iowa Department of Public Safety, the injured prison employees were treated at a local hospital and have been released, but the extent of their injuries and how long they were hospitalized have not been disclosed.