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An inmate-on-inmate assault last weekend at a Seward maximum-security prison that sent one to an Anchorage hospital is being investigated by Alaska State Troopers.
Word of the incident at Spring Creek Correctional Center reached troopers at about 4:15 p.m. Saturday, according to an online dispatch.
"One inmate physically assaulted another inmate multiple times resulting in that inmate being medevaced to (Alaska) Regional Hospital in Anchorage," troopers wrote.
No formal charges have yet been filed in the case, and the victim and suspect weren't identified in the dispatch.
Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said the assault took place outdoors, in the prison's yard. What led up to the assault remains under investigation.
Third-degree assault charges were being forwarded by troopers to the Kenai district attorney's office.