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The Department of Correctional Services in the Eastern Cape says criminal cases have been opened against two inmates at St Albans prison who attacked two correctional officials on Monday.
The Department says one official sustained minor head injuries after being assaulted with a padlock and another was stabbed with a home-made sharpened object on his head.
Department spokesperson, Zama Feni, says both officials were treated in hospital and discharged.
Following this incident, the offenders have been sent to the St Albans Maximum Correctional Centre and have had most of their privileges they used to benefit from their previous correctional center drastically reduced.
In efforts aimed at curbing the assaults of the correctional officials by inmates, a meeting between the St Albans Management Area union representatives, provincial management and officials from Head Office was convened last week to assess and develop new security measures.
Meanwhile, Feni says the search for three prisoners who escaped from the Queenstown Correctional Centre over the weekend is still continuing.
They've been identified as Siyabonga Maqungo, Anele Baraza and Mziyanda Muleka.
