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Police officer stabbed in chest at Category A prison

A police officer has been stabbed in the chest at a prison.

The officer is “conscious and talking” in hospital after the incident this morning at Frankland Prison, Durham Police said.

He was visiting the Category A men’s prison from an outside force.

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