ANAMOSA – Officials with the Iowa Department of Corrections, Tuesday, said that at approximately 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, multiple staff members were assaulted at the Anamosa State Penitentiary. A corrections department nurse and a correctional officer have died as a result of their injuries. Currently the department is collecting and confirming details of the assault. What the department can confirm is that an inmate attacked multiple staff members and inmates in the prison’s infirmary. Additional security staff arrived and restrained the inmate. Staff began attempting life-saving first aid on the injured until paramedics arrived.

The incident remains under a joint investigation by the Iowa Department of Corrections and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, part of the Iowa Department of Public Safety.  Names were being withheld, pending family notifications and investigation.