Updated 09/25/2011 11:16 AM
Rikers Inmate Who Allegedly Stabbed Two Officers Charged With Attempted Murder
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An inmate accused of stabbing a captain and another officer at Rikers Island last week is now facing attempted murder and assault charges.
The Department of Correction says 40-year-old inmate Hector Matos, 40, was given a balloon filled with pieces of sharpened plastic from his mother, Ramonita Caraballo, during a visit on Thursday.
Caraballo was arrested, and in an interview that followed, officials say Captain Winston Declet gave Matos a pen to make a written statement about his mother.
Matos is accused of taking the pen and stabbing Declet and Corrections Officer Edward Martinez.
Some officials say a lack of resources might be to blame.
"This is just another example of the lack of staffing that we have in the central punitive segregation area, and a lack of training that we have to combat the problems that we face everyday," said President Norman Seabrook of the New York City Correction Officers' Benevolent Association.
Both officers were treated at the hospital and released.